Working Group on
Child Sexual Victimization, Exploitation and Trafficking
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Purpose:
The purpose of the ISPCAN Working Group on Child Sexual Victimization, Exploitation and Trafficking (WG-CSET) is to develop areas of common interest for countries, organizations and individuals who are actively working on issues around CSET.
As nations address the problem of sexually exploited and trafficked children and adolescents, comprehensive data and deep understanding of issues around this social problem are essential for planning, funding, evidence based advocacy and launching other interventions to fight the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children.
A global perspective on these data is ultimately needed to understand the scale of the problem that the intervention community is addressing, the gaps in those systems and their successes and challenges.
Goals:
Because the working group is newly established, the development of goals is still in process. The following goal statements comprise initial thinking regarding what the Working Group may be able to accomplish:
- Engage countries, organizations and individuals with existing or planned programs in order to expand the international community of interest.
- Help develop and promote the goals of ending child sexual exploitation and trafficking through the ongoing support of informational exchange activities such as presentations, workshops, pre-sessions, and post-sessions on the topic at various forums and conferences organized by ISPCAN, ECPAT International, International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP) and International Pediatric Association (IPA).
- Promote the utilization of data on CSET intervention to inform policy development at national, regional and international levels.
- Provide professional assistance to developing nations in creating and sustaining appropriate intervention programs in line with the SDGs, through the collaborative efforts of the Working Group membership.
Convener: Jordan Greenbaum, ISPCAN Board Member
If you’re interested in joining this group, please contact partnerships@ispcan.org or post your questions or comments in the Forum below.
Key Terms & Definitions
Key Organizations Focused on This Issue
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Key Reports/Research
GUIDELINES FOR ETHICAL RESEARCH ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION INVOLVING CHILDREN – ECPAT International
Guidelines for Ethical Research on Sexual Exploitation Involving Children - Doing research involving children in the context of sexual exploitation raises a range of ethical questions and dilemmas. Some of these are similar for any research with human participants or vulnerable groups; but [...]
WHY CHILDREN ARE AT RISK OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION DURING COVID-19 ECPAT International
WHY CHILDREN ARE AT RISK OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION DURING COVID-19 - COVID-19 has now spread to virtually every country in the world and has a devastating impact on people, economies, health systems, and communities. While most people's lives are put on hold, criminals [...]
Child Trafficking & Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children- Medical & Psycho-social Services for the Victims
Child Trafficking & Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children- Medical & Psycho-social Services for the Victims - Child Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) are violations of the fundamental rights of children to be safe and are in contravention to the United [...]
Commercial Exploitation of Children: Child Labour & Sexual Exploitation in India
Commercial Exploitation of Children: Child Labour & Sexual Exploitation in India by Dr Rajeev Seth, MD- In its most extreme form, child labour involves children being enslaved, separated from their families, exposed to serious hazards and illness and/or left to fend for themselves [...]
Children at Work, Child Labor and Modern Slavery in India: An Overview
Children at Work, Child Labor and Modern Slavery in India: An Overview - Recently the term ‘modern slavery’ has been used to refer to engagement of children in different forms of work without their permission to refuse such work. Modern slavery is a [...]
Trafficking in Persons Report 2019
The annual Trafficking in Persons report from the U.S. Department of State measures nearly 200 nations on their success in fighting human trafficking within their own borders, based on practices established in the latest versions of the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of [...]
Out of the Shadows: shining light on the response to child sexual abuse and exploitation
The first-of-its-kind benchmarking index covers 40 countries which represent 70% of the world’s children and will help to assess the progress toward reaching the Sustainable Development Goal 16.2 – ending abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children [...]
Terminology Guidelines for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse
These guidelines, adopted by the Interagency Working Group in Luxembourg, 28 January 2016, provide all individuals and agencies working for the prevention and elimination of all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children with guidance for the understanding and use of [...]
Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage (2017)
This report, a collaborative effort of the International Labour Organization, the Walk Free Foundation, and the International Organization for Migration, with input from various UN agencies, focuses on the prevalence of forced labour and forced marriage around the world. The report covers a [...]
Before the Harm Is Done: Examining the UK’s Response to the Prevention of Trafficking
This 2018 report, by the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group (ATMG), a coalition established in 2009 to monitor the UK’s implementation of Eu