According to surveys carried out by India Today magazine, currently around 500,000 children make their living by prostituting, most of them living in brothels.
In Mexico, from data collection, it was found that in six different municipalities (Acapulco, Cancun, Ciudad Juarez, Guadalajara, Tapachula and Tijuana) approximately 4.6 thousand children are sexually exploited, although the number is much higher nationally, around 16 thousand kids.
Lithuania, a former republic of the Soviet Union present in Eastern Europe, is an underdeveloped country that also faces problems with exploitation. estimates show that 20% to 50% of the total number of prostitutes working in the country are children, in actions carried out by the local police in brothels and brothels found children between 11 and 12 years old, in addition, in some orphanages children participate in the making of films pornographic.
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A survey conducted through interviews by the NGO Human Rights Vigilance with 6,110 prostitutes in Cambodia, presented data stating that 31% of them were aged between 12 and 17 years.
In several Asian countries, such as India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan, slavery is often practiced as a means of paying debts, it is one of the ways of inserting young people and children into prostitution, in this case the girl does not stop acting as a prostitute until the moment of payment of the debts acquired by the parents, in However, the outstanding balance is hardly paid off, as the creditors account for all the child's expenses, such as housing, transport and food, which are added to the total of debt.
Eduardo de Freitas
Graduated in Geography
Brazil School Team
General geography - geography - Brazil School
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