Preventing Child Exploitation
Category: Moral Decency | Strength: Mild
The World Assembly,
Reaffirming its commitment to achieving fair and ethical labor standards,
Taking particular note of this commitment with regard to the protection of children from exploitation,
Concerned at the absence of an international prohibition on importing goods produced through child labor,
Further concerned at the spread of child sex tourism contributing to child commercial sexual exploitation:Plain English Summary: This resolution (1) requires that nations ban the import of goods produced through child labor, (2) requires that nations ban child sex tourism, (3) extends the principle of extraterritoriality to these crimes, and (4) urges a common international effort to bring to an end these crimes.
- Defines for the purposes of this resolution:
- "goods produced through child labor" as goods in whose production and supply chain child labor is involved, where those forms of child labor would be illegal were they to take place within the jurisdiction of the World Assembly,
- "child sexual abuse" as a sexual encounter with a child, where that encounter would be illegal were it to take place within the jurisdiction of the World Assembly;
- Requires that each nation prohibit, prevent and prosecute the importation into or transshipment through their sovereign territory any goods produced through child labor;
- Further requires that each nation prohibit, prevent and prosecute the travel from or through their sovereign territory in order to commit an act of child sexual abuse;
- Encourages all nations to work together in bringing a worldwide end to child labor, including child commercial sexual exploitation.
Daniella Russel, MA PhD
Representing the office of:
Ambassador Brittany Hepburn
Semi-Permanent Representative to the World Assembly