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At 16 years old, they work as prostitute for pocket money

Newspaper: 24 Heures, Switzerland
Date: 2008-11-13
Comment: The Swiss newspaper '24 Heures' publishes a story revealing the case of 16-year-old girls working legally as escort girls in Switzerland. Indeed, the Swiss legislation defines the age of sexual consent as 16-years-old. And unlike their neighbours who limit prostitution for people over 18-years-old, ...

A Kid like this is a Godsend

Newspaper: Nepszabadsag Online, Hungary
Date: 2008-11-07
Comment: There are children from Taiwan, China, Turkey, Russia, Iraq and Syria studying together with Hungarian students, some of Roma origin, in a school in inner-city Budapest. The Hungarian-English primary school has become a multicultural institution over the years. Three years ago they started welcoming...

Child trafficking touches Kosovo as well

Newspaper: KOSOVA SOT, Kosovo
Date: 2008-10-24
Comment: Child trafficking continues to be a concerning issue of the Kosovar society. According to the UNICEF report 6 forms or ways of exploitation exist during the trafficking process such as: sexual exploitation (prostitution or pornography), illegal adoption, domestic labor, common with "slavery", beggin...

Europe must fight ostracism against the Roma

Newspaper: Le Monde, France
Date: 2008-09-18
Comment: The day after the first EU Roma summit, the highest-level gathering on the situation of Roma yet held by the EU, the French Newspaper 'Le Monde' gives the floor to George Soros, the founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute and Soros foundations Network. The philanthropist gives his opinio...

Children become victims of pornography

Newspaper: Vreme, Macedonia
Date: 2008-09-17
Comment: The article presents a deep analysis of children access to pornographic content through internet sites and movies. The author succesfully communicated the alarming message to the audience: children are becoming victims of pornography in Macedonia. An innocent game on personal computers can easily tu...

Crime Flourishes in Old Prisons

Newspaper: Index, Hungary
Date: 2008-09-03
Comment: The Hungarian ombudsman commissioned a research about juvenile penitentiary institutions and found that conditions and running them over capacity leads to serious, violent crimes among inmates, while these conditions impede young deliquents' rights to life, dignity, protection and moral and mental d...


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