In South Africa, such relations are also prohibited under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act 32 of 2007 (Republic of South Africa, 2007). Also, sex with a child is considered a disgrace (Odey and Akpashila, 2016). In instances where the family is already...
Protection, headed by the Institute of Psychology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and scholars of the University of Ulm, to a group of religious leaders responding to the sexual abuse of minors around the world, including Argentina, Ecuador, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy and ...
Even here, the law does not necessarily benefit victims of trafficking because the Protocol does not exempt them from prosecution for offences committed when trafficked. Thus in a US study covering 12 counties, victims were shown to have been arrested in 59 percent of all state-level cases; ...
According to Kiragu and Nyong’o (2005), “the punishment … was enhanced from 15 years to a minimum of 30 years” after a review of the Sexual Offences Special Provision Act in 1998. “Apart from sharing the Court of Appeal […] with Mainland Tanzania, Zanzibar has a distinct and separ...
and this has potential to impact the wellbeing of children. Short and long-term consequences include sexual abuse and exploitation, self-harm, excessive use of alcohol and harmful drugs. This paper discusses the association between childhood adversity and child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Ghana. ...