November 10, 2007
Globe and Mail (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
1 million: The number of children exploited every year in the global commercial sex trade.
$300-million: The amount of money estimated to be transferred every year from urban to rural areas in Thailand by women working in the sex trade.
31 per cent: The proportion of prostitutes in Cambodia who are children between the ages of 12 and 17, according to a Human Rights Vigilance survey.
450,000: Approximate number of child prostitutes in India, estimated by India Today magazine.
25: The number of countries, including Cambodia, Thailand and Costa Rica, where the age of consent is 15.
18: The number of countries where the age of consent is 14.
20 per cent: The proportion of boys in Sri Lanka who reported having been subjected to sexual abuse as children.
32: The number of countries that have extra-territorial laws on child-sex tourism, which allow the prosecution of their citizens for child-sex crimes committed abroad.
40 per cent: The proportion of rape cases in South Africa involving girls 17 years old and younger.
200: The number of travel companies, from 21 countries, that have signed a code of conduct to prevent child sex tourism.
Source: Unicef, The Protection Project, U.S. State Department
$300-million: The amount of money estimated to be transferred every year from urban to rural areas in Thailand by women working in the sex trade.
31 per cent: The proportion of prostitutes in Cambodia who are children between the ages of 12 and 17, according to a Human Rights Vigilance survey.
450,000: Approximate number of child prostitutes in India, estimated by India Today magazine.
25: The number of countries, including Cambodia, Thailand and Costa Rica, where the age of consent is 15.
18: The number of countries where the age of consent is 14.
20 per cent: The proportion of boys in Sri Lanka who reported having been subjected to sexual abuse as children.
32: The number of countries that have extra-territorial laws on child-sex tourism, which allow the prosecution of their citizens for child-sex crimes committed abroad.
40 per cent: The proportion of rape cases in South Africa involving girls 17 years old and younger.
200: The number of travel companies, from 21 countries, that have signed a code of conduct to prevent child sex tourism.
Source: Unicef, The Protection Project, U.S. State Department
8 comments:
What is a nonsense statistic? It is all political. Normally, we like to know what is the percentage of prostitute who is a minor; that is children under 16 years old. To just jack up the percentage by adding adult up from 16 and up does not help us understand how severe our problem is.
Media should reported useful and educated fact to help government, not trying to put down government with stupid tricks.
Who writes all this shit. Give me some good hard facts before I believe any of this shit from a NGO wanting some money to bolster their pockets
Some people put their asses in the hight chairs ,they can't see close up?
Yeah, and what about kids that is 10 and 11 that we've seen on some of the video, aren't they also children? What is with the stupid range from 12 to 17?
shut the fuck up ha noi trained tmil cpp motherfucker.
Yeah!!it's was the vietcong kids.they like to deny everythings that they know they can't hide.vietcong people was born to suck!dddddddddddddddk!
this is very sad for our country and our people.
I only feel sad for a few of us who has been forced or tempted into prostitution. The rest are Ah Khmer-Yuons from South Vietnam who doing prostitute businesses in Cambodia.
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