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Child Trafficking
The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation
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          & the Caribbean
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About the Factbook
The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation was compiled from media, non-governmental organization and government reports. It is an initial effort to collect facts, statistics and known cases on global sexual exploitation. Information is organized into four categories:
  - Trafficking,
  - Prostitution,
  - Pornography, and
  - Organized and Institutionalized
    Sexual Exploitation
    and Violence.

Sources were not contacted to verify information. Close examination will reveal that there are contradictions in information depending on the sources of information (ex: how many women are in prostitution in Thailand). All statistics are reported with no attempt to evaluate which numbers are more likely to be accurate. In fact, the exact numbers in many cases are not known and estimates come from different sources which use different methods to determine what they report.

We hope these facts will assist people to recognize the harm caused throughout the world by sexual violence and exploitation and catalyze action against this violence agianst women.

This project was made possible with the support of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rhode Island and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Norway.

If you use this information in your work, please reference this factbook-- The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation, Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn, Vanessa Chirgwin, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, 1999.


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East Timor
PROSTITUTION

East Timorese girls and women become prostitutes as a consequence of rape by Indonesian soldiers, high levels of unemployment and the need to support themselves and their children, often in the absence of their men who are away fighting or have been killed. (Dr. George J. Aditjondro, East Timor Human Rights Centre, Newcastle University, Australia, "Violence By The State Against Women In East Timor - A Report to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Including its Causes and Consequences," 7 November 1997)

ORGANIZED AND INSTITUTIONALIZED
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND VIOLENCE

Since the 1975 invasion of Timor by Indonesia, Indonesian authorites, particularly the military have systematically violated the rights of Timorese women and girls. They have been forcibly sterilized, forcibly married, coerced into taking contraceptives and gang raped. (East Timor Human Rights Centre, "Distressing secrets for East Timor’s women," The Age, 6 December 1997)

East Timorese women are in forced marriages with Indonesian soldiers, who abandon the women and any children born when they leave. (Dr. George J. Aditjondro, East Timor Human Rights Centre, Newcastle University, Australia "Violence By The States Against Women In East Timor - A Report to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Including its Causes and Consequences", 7 November 1997 )



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