10 Feb 2011
Warsaw, Poland, January 2011: Nobody’s Children Foundation started the distribution of their new publication for child protection professionals concerning the issue of child trafficking and commercial exploitation. The publication has been issued in the frame of Mario project. It consists of a numbers of articles describing legal and sociological context of the phenomenon and practical implications of research.
The publication has been issued as a part of the quarterly series “Abused Child. Theory, Research and Practice”. which is a periodical with the main goal of broadening the knowledge of professionals, such as psychologists, teachers, paediatricians and other medical professionals as well as lawyers, policy makers and others on different aspects of child abuse.
Table of Contents:
• Analysis of legal regulations defining and penalizing child-trafficking, Małgorzata Pomarańska–Bielecka, Marcin Wiśniewski
• Child prostitution – legal aspects, Agnieszka Popławska, Olga Trocha
• Statute of limitations for prosecuting sexual crimes against minors, Olga Trocha
• Exploiting minors for prostitution – characteristics and dynamics of the problem with particular focus on the situation in Poland, Agnieszka Popławska
• Conceptualizing Juvenile Prostitution as Child Maltreatment: Findings from the National Juvenile Prostitution Study, Kimberly J. Mitchell, David Finkelhor, Janis Wolak
• The issue of child-trafficking in Poland – views and experiences of professionals, Gabriela Zawadzka
• The issue of child–trafficking under the National Action Plan against Trafficking in Human Beings, Aneta Suda
• Initiatives aimed at protecting children against commercial exploitation undertaken in the Republic of South Africa before and during 2010 FIFA World Cup (“2010 to be the year of soccer, not child-trafficking!”), Karolina Lewandowska
• Networking and streetwork in shopping malls as methods of reaching adolescents and young adults at risk of commercial exploitation, Monika Grotecka, Katarzyna Rżanek
• Child-trafficking in the practice of La Strada Foundation, Irena Dawid–Olczyk
• Global Campaign of the Body Shop and ECPAT International against sex trafficking of children a young people
• Euro 2012 versus preventing commercial sexual exploitation of children