Source :ReliefWeb

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/EGUA-83EPGS?OpenDocument

The Human Rights Council this morning began its annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child on the theme of the fight against sexual violence against children, holding a panel discussion on manifestations of sexual violence against boys and girls.

Source :The Irish Times

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0303/1224265502394.html

AN IRISHMAN caught with hardcore child pornography at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport was yesterday sentenced to eight months in jail by a Dutch judge who called the material “shocking and disgusting”.

Source :South Florida Sun-Sentinel

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/crime/fl-mathias-sex-slave-20100302,0,3864487,full.story

A Davie man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for traveling to the Philippines to have sex with two underage sisters while the girls' mother videotaped the encounters.

Source :NBA Fanhouse

http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/02/26/alvin-robertson-charged-with-sex-trafficking/

Former NBA All-Star Alvin Robertson has been charged with sexual assault of a child, trafficking an underage child for purposes of sex and forcing a sexual performance by a child.

Source :BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8537734.stm

Children are being increasingly exposed to sexual imagery and their parents have limited opportunities to stop it, a report for the Home Office warns.

Source :The Jakarta Post

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/25/trading-innocence.html

"Data from ECPAT International *End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes* suggests that number could be as high as 150,000 children working in the commercial sex industry in Indonesia," says SOS Children's Villages National Director, Gregor Nitihardjo, during a telephone interview.

Source :The Manila Times

http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/news/nation/12108-child-trafficking-in-rp-unstoppable--dswd

Last year, the DSWD assisted 632 victims of trafficking in persons, illegal recruitment, prostitution, pedophilia, pornography and child labor. From here 188 are male minors, 408 were female minors and 36 were women.

Source :AllAfrica.com

http://allafrica.com/stories/201002221163.html

Months after the demolition of the famous Soja Bar at Kwame Nkrumah Circle, a new brothel has emerged at Kasoa in the Central Region where children prostitutes are offering services. Child prostitution appears to be on the increase.

Source :IPS

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50360

According to the Ministry of Women and Child Development there are an estimated three million prostitutes in India, of whom 40 percent are children aged 17 years and below. Data from organisations working with CSWs reveal that prostituted children contribute over 15,000 crore rupees (3.2 billion U.S. dollars) every year to the annual prostitution business, valued at 55,000 crore rupees (11.7 billion dollars).

Source :Deadline Pres & Picture Agency

http://deadlinescotland.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/13656-2632/

SCOTLAND'S police forces and courts have failed to ban a single paedophile from travelling abroad to engage in child sex tourism.