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U.S. Military Involvement with Child Prostitution

ECPAT-USA’s military campaign aims to end the U.S. military’s role in sustaining the prostitution industry worldwide. ECPAT-USA is working in coalition with women’s organizations and churches on this issue.

Although ECPAT-USA generally focuses on child prostitution, the military campaign seeks to end the commercial sexual exploitation of both women and children around military bases because the same factors that victimize children also contribute to women’s involvement in the sex industry.

All forms of military prostitution--whether with women or children, with trafficked persons or voluntary migrants--are exploitative and endanger the health, safety and morale of all involved parties, including the military personnel who purchase sex.

http://www.ecpatusa.org/military_invol_cp.asp

Friday, 15 September, 2000, 18:26 GMT 19:26 UK
Asia's child sex victims ignored

Cambodia plans to ban child sex tourists

Children who have been sexually abused in Asian countries are badly neglected by grossly inadequate health and social services according to two United Nations reports. The research, unveiled in Bangkok found victims of abuse as young as four. The UN's Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) said Asian governments are failing the children caught up in the region's sex industry.



Child prostitutes make money for their families The report highlights the failure of social services in countries like Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to provide adequate psychological support for child victims of rape and incest, or for those used as prostitutes or in pornography.
While the physical health of the child victims is sometimes dealt with, psychological assistance to help them overcome the trauma of sexual abuse and exploitation is virtually non-existent.



Nanda Krairiksh, from ESCAP human resources development section the unit which carried out some of the research, says it is essential the psychological problems are dealt with. The reports on the Greater Mekong subregion and South Asia found sexually exploited and abused children often suffer mental problems such as depression, suicidal tendencies and substance abuse.

Nanda Krairiksh, ESCAP human resources development
Poverty, lack of education, drug abuse and family problems were listed as contributing factors in the abuse and exploitation of children. In Cambodia 98% of girls in prostitution are the main providers for their families and in Vietnam 49% of girls in prostitution were victims of prior sexual abuse, the studies found.

Some 80% of sexually exploited children in Thailand were from dysfunctional families and 31% had been victims of sexual abuse.
Many Asian governments would rather ignore the issue than admit they had a problem with sexual abuse and exploitation of children, Nanda Krairiksh said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/926853.stm