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Bid To Protect Children As Sex Tourism Spreads

Goa, former Portuguese colony and one-time hippie paradise, is at risk of overtaking Bangkok as Asia's main sex resort, as paedophiles prey in increasing numbers on Indian children, reports Gemini News Service. International campaigners against child sex abuse are joining forces with local social activists to fight the menace. By RAHUL BEDI, New Delhi.

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/8931/dbt-gem2.html

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Preventing Child Sex Tourism: ECPAT International

ECPAT (End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism)is a network of organisations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and trafficking of children for sexual purposes. Since the early 1990s, ECPAT International and ECPAT groups around the world have worked with the tourism and travel industry to raise awareness and to take practical measures against children being sexually abused.

http://www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/projects/sex_tourism/sex_tourism.asp

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Prostitution & Sex Tourism

An article on sex tourism from Third World Women's Health (2000).

http://www.arches.uga.edu/~haneydaw/twwh/traf.html

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Sex Tourism Plagues Central America

In Central America, post-war political stability has brought a rush of outsiders seeking rain forests, pristine beaches and Mayan ruins, yet poverty and weak judicial systems have also created an environment where foreign men can easily and inexpensively fulfill their fantasies. From Paul Jeffrey, a United Methodist missionary in Central America (RESPONSE).

http://gbgm-umc.org/response/articles/sextourism.html

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Statement On The Prevention Of Organised Sex Tourism - World Tourism Organisation (PDF)

Adopted by the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization at its eleventh session - Cairo (Egypt), 17-22 October 1995, (Resolution A/RES/338 (XI)). (PDF)

http://www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/projects/sex_tourism/wto.pdf

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Task Force to Protect Children from Sexual Exploitation in Tourism

The Task Force to Protect Children from Sexual Exploitation in Tourism is a global action platform of tourism-related key-players from the government and the tourism industry sectors, international organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and media associations whose aim is to prevent, uncover, isolate and eradicate the sexual exploitation of children in tourism. It is an open-ended network which was established by the World Tourism Organization in 1997.

http://www.world-tourism.org/protect_children/index.htm

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Where Sexual Exploitation of Minors Is Not a Crime

Sexual exploitation of minors is not classified as a crime in Guatemala, where activists say child sex tourism is on the rise. (Alberto Mendoza, IPS, 13 October 2006)

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35100

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