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Gambia: Manual On Child Sex Tourism Launched

As the tourist season is around the corner, Gambia Tourism Board (GTB) has recently taken the unprecedented step officially launched the training manual on child sex tourism GTB (CST). The manual has been channeled to education and the eradication of child labor and sexual exploitation in the tourism industry in The Gambia. Sex tourism is a terrible thing that needs serious attention, the child sex tourism is a form of child prostitution. There is nothing to compromise with, as it is a commercial sexual exploitation of children in society and in tourist areas.Most children who are engaging in this act are sometimes drawn into this through one way or the other. And this could be due to the kidnapping, coercion, and other similar ways or conditions. And regardless of the state it is voluntary for commercial purposes.

Authors or child abusers always target children because it creates huge money for them. Child exploitation and sex tourism involving children more time occurs as a result of the integration of children into the sex trade adult where they are exploited by local people and introduced to sex tourists.And the community in some countries, relax and feel reluctant to intervene in cases of sexual exploitation all in the name of privacy.But with this new development as the government of The Gambia attaches great importance to the protection of citizens and tourists visiting the country peaceful, Momodou Joof, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, who represented the Minister Tourism and Culture, at the launch of the training manual on child GTB child sex tourism, said: "It is important for stakeholders in the tourism fraternity and other partners to come and participate in the protection of children on beaches and other places, "as the manual will go a long way in increasing awareness of society about the dangers of child abuse and some of the complications involved.

In the war against this operating system in the world the World Tourism Organization (WTO) in 1999 established a task force to fight against CST. The WTO, ECPAT - End Prostitution, pornography and trafficking of children for sexual purposes and Nordic tour operators created a global code of conduct for the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation in Travel and of Tourism.

Review of training manual

The training manual newly launched 85-page sex tourism involving children in the Gambia has affected various areas such as the purpose and structure of the manual, the benefits of tourism, commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), which is involved in CST, which makes children vulnerable to CSEC, the situation in the Gambia, the legal dimension (Gambia) to mentioned but a few.

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By Grace Poore, IGLHRC Regional Coordinator for Asia and Pacific Islands

The purpose of the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which is monitored by a Committee, is to codify international legal standards for women’s rights. To date, 186 countries have ratified CEDAW. Twice a year in Geneva and once a year in New York, a committee of 23 independent experts meets to hear how governments are implementing the convention to ensure equality for women. To supplement the information they receive from the state, the CEDAW Committee also reviews reports from NGOs (called shadow reports) to get a truer picture of women’s lives and what the state is doing to advance women’s equality.

With the humidity outside, it felt like 110 degrees, but inside Conference Room 3 of the North Lawn Building of the New York campus of the United Nations, temperatures vacillated between cold frustration and fiery excitement during the Singapore review at the 49th Session of the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Time and again, the Singapore state delegation side-stepped questions or minimized discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) as members of the CEDAW Committee repeatedly asked how the Singapore government addresses the numerous inequalities faced by sexual minority women [1].