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| Saturday, 25 September 2004 |
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by Nadira Gunatilleke South Asia Mid Term Review of `The Yokohama Global Commitment 2001' will take place in Colombo, Sri Lanka from September 29 to October 1, UNICEF sources said. Commercial sexual exploitation and abuse of children is a highly concealed yet widespread form of child rights violations in South Asia. The Governments of South Asian countries acknowledged that it is an area that needed urgent responses and vowed to forge `a global partnership' to combat Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) at the first World Congress. At the South Asian Consultation held prior to the Yokohama Congress, in Dhaka in 2001, the `South Asia Strategy against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Child Sexual Abuse' was also adopted by the countries of the region. The regional strategy expressed South Asian countries' commitment for forging a collective and concerted action for clamping down on the scourge of commercial sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children which plagues the region. The South Asian consultation, recognising the important role children and young people have in creating and implementing the `Regional Strategy', ensured meaningful participation of young people from the seven countries of SAARC. |
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