World Congress III against the Sexual Exploitation of Children in Brazil
Children worldwide are victims of sex trafficking, pornography, prostitution, rape or abuse. This issue is being addressed by the World Congress III against the Sexual Exploitation of Children, taking place in Rio De Janiero, Brazil from 25 to 28 November. The Congress will gather more than three thousand people from five continents, 300 of which will be adolescents.
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These children's faces... cannot be shown.
And these young women's faces cannot be shown.
Their identities must be protected because they are victims of trafficking, pornography, prostitution, rape or abuse… all forms of sexual exploitation.
It's not only their identities that need protection.
SOUNDBITE: "Rumilya" (Russian) "When clients came to the brothel, we tried to lock the doors or hide."
SOUNDBITE: 15 year old girl:
"He called me in his room and asked me to scratch his back, he held me and lay me down on the bed. I began to shout. He had a knife beside him. He said that if I talked he would kill me."
SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Ana Maria: "I met a man when I was nine-and-a-half years old. He worked at a night club and he took me with him and that's how it started."
The sexual exploitation of children and adolescents is a global reality and is gaining a growing visibility.
SOUNDBITE: Senator Madrigal (showing DVD cover) "It looks like she's four years old, and this looks like an eight year old child, and the four year old child having sex." (NB… as above, any faces of children to be obscured.)
Eliminating these horrific practices … and protecting children and adolescents… are major challenges for the international community.
SOUNDBITE: Senator Madrigal "It is happening that children are being used as sex toys, that children are being used as sex commodities."
This year, the third World Congress Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents is being held in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The aims of the conference are to bring light to the ongoing problem of sexual exploitation… a problem that by its very nature keeps many of its victims in secrecy, ashamed and afraid.
UNICEF supports special programs around the world.
In Liberia, a safe house for abused young women… in Kyrgyzstan, a center for homeless and vulnerable children… in the Philippines, a peer-education project… in Guatemala, protective services for children on the streets.
As a key organizer of the Congress, UNICEF will join the international community to better protect children from sexual exploitation… reinforcing the basic right to protection that must be guaranteed for all children.
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