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Thu, 03/19/2009 - 14:08
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ASEAN COMMITTED TO FIGHTING CHILD SEX TOURISM
Denpasar, Bali, March 19 (ANTARA) - Participants of the Southeast Asian Conference on Child Sex Tourism have committed to freeing the region's tourist resorts from all forms of child sex tourism.
With the commitment to fighting child sexual exploitation and abuse which often involved transnational crime in the ASEAN region, the efforts to stop child sex tourism would be more coordinated and measurable, a statement of the conference said here on Thursday.
The statement was distributed by Ahmad Sofian of the Coalition to End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT)'s affiliated group in Indonesia.
Th three-day conference presenting 25 speakers from several countries is organized by the Center for Study of Child Protection (PKPA) and ECPAT, from March 18 to 20, 2009, with the support of the Indonesian Department of Culture and Tourism and other agencies.
The commitment were expressed by I Gusti Putu Laksaguna of the cultural and tourism ministry, Dr Surjadi Soeparman of the woman empowerment ministry, Jipy Priscilia of the Plan International, and Frans van Dijk of Terre Des Hommes (TDH) of the Netherlands.
Factors which made children prone to child sex tourism include poverty, deviated traditions, discrimination irresponsible sexual behavior, household violence, emergency and conflict situations, corruption, HIV/AIDS, consumptive life stile, and communication and information technology.
Some 300 delegates from Asian, European, American and African countries join the meeting discussing sex tourism in Southeast Asia from a number of perspectives.
Data from the World Tourism Organization (WTO) states that more than 2 million children are involved in the child sex tourism.
According to ECPAT, child sex tourism is the commercial sexual exploitation of children by people who travel from one place to another to engage in sexual acts with minors. ECPAT defines child sex tourism as sexual transactions involving anyone under the age of 18.
With the commitment to fighting child sexual exploitation and abuse which often involved transnational crime in the ASEAN region, the efforts to stop child sex tourism would be more coordinated and measurable, a statement of the conference said here on Thursday.
The statement was distributed by Ahmad Sofian of the Coalition to End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT)'s affiliated group in Indonesia.
Th three-day conference presenting 25 speakers from several countries is organized by the Center for Study of Child Protection (PKPA) and ECPAT, from March 18 to 20, 2009, with the support of the Indonesian Department of Culture and Tourism and other agencies.
The commitment were expressed by I Gusti Putu Laksaguna of the cultural and tourism ministry, Dr Surjadi Soeparman of the woman empowerment ministry, Jipy Priscilia of the Plan International, and Frans van Dijk of Terre Des Hommes (TDH) of the Netherlands.
Factors which made children prone to child sex tourism include poverty, deviated traditions, discrimination irresponsible sexual behavior, household violence, emergency and conflict situations, corruption, HIV/AIDS, consumptive life stile, and communication and information technology.
Some 300 delegates from Asian, European, American and African countries join the meeting discussing sex tourism in Southeast Asia from a number of perspectives.
Data from the World Tourism Organization (WTO) states that more than 2 million children are involved in the child sex tourism.
According to ECPAT, child sex tourism is the commercial sexual exploitation of children by people who travel from one place to another to engage in sexual acts with minors. ECPAT defines child sex tourism as sexual transactions involving anyone under the age of 18.
