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  2. Child prostitution - Wikipedia

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    Child prostitution usually manifests in the form of sex trafficking, in which a child is kidnapped or tricked into becoming involved in the sex trade, or survival sex, in which the child engages in sexual activities to procure basic essentials such as food and shelter. Prostitution of children is commonly associated with child pornography, and ...

  3. Commercial sexual exploitation of children - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) defines the “umbrella” of crimes and activities that involve inflicting sexual abuse on to a child as a financial or personal opportunity. Commercial Sexual Exploitation consists of forcing a child into prostitution, sex trafficking, early marriage, child sex tourism and any other ...

  4. Prostitution in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Prostitution in the United States. Nevada (highlighted in red) is the only state in the U.S. where prostitution is legal (in only certain parts). Furthermore, it is decriminalized to sell sex, but not to buy sex in Maine. Prostitution is illegal in the vast majority of the United States as a result of state laws rather than federal laws.

  5. Child sexual abuse - Wikipedia

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    Child sexual abuse ( CSA ), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. [1] [2] Forms of child sexual abuse include engaging in sexual activities with a child (whether by asking or pressuring, or by other means), indecent exposure, child grooming, and child ...

  6. Sex trafficking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Sex trafficking in the United States is a form of human trafficking which involves reproductive slavery or commercial sexual exploitation as it occurs in the United States. Sex trafficking includes the transportation of persons by means of coercion, deception and/or force into exploitative and slavery-like conditions. [1]

  7. United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual ...

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    It followed the adoption on 20 November 1989 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the United Nations General Assembly. This international instrument recognizes "that in all countries in the world, there are children living in exceptionally difficult conditions, and that such children need special consideration".

  8. Street children in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Child prostitution. Child prostitutes are used by foreign sex tourists and sexual predators, as well as local people. Some are used to film child pornography, which is rampant in the Philippines. Many street children are lured into prostitution as a means of survival, while others do it to earn money for their families.

  9. Child sex tourism - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Child sex tourism ( CST) is tourism for the purpose of engaging in the prostitution of children, which is commercially facilitated child sexual abuse. [1] The definition of child in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is "every human being below the age of 18 years". [2] Child sex tourism results in both mental and ...