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shelter, long-term treatment, home and post-institutional follow-up. The services provided
include medical attention, dental care, nutrition, cultural, recreational and sport activities.
Finally, in Chile and in Guatemala, ECPAT operates centres with partner NGOs where child
victims are provided with individual treatment, crisis intervention, group counselling, peer
support, legal assistance, recreational activities and assistance to their family members.
67. In Honduras, the NGO Casa Alianza has been providing rehabilitation programmes in its
shelters for minors who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation. This Residential
Program for Integral Attention to Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Children
Trade, called “Querubines”, is financed with the help of ICORDAID (Dutch Cooperation
Agency), Diagrama Foundation and ILO through its IPEC programme. Support is provided to
about 80 to 90 minors who are victims each year. This residential programme helps their social
reinsertion through artistic, sport and cultural activities and also provides health attention for
reducing damages of psychoactive drugs to which many children are addicted. Children are
also provided with legal assistance and receive training on the importance of having personal
goals and a paid job. A specific reintegration watch has been put in place for 80 girls who are
direct victims of commercial sexual exploitation and have rejoined their families. The
activities of Casa Alianza aim to obtain family and community support for the social
reinsertion of minors, and to eliminate conditions that can make the children vulnerable to
commercial sexual exploitation and trade.
68. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been supporting projects3
together with NGOs and other civil society actors: in South Africa to prevent trafficking and
child prostitution; in India, the Czech Republic and Poland to provide advocacy and witness
protection for children and risk and for victims of trafficking; and in the Philippines to
rehabilitation centres for victims of trafficking and sexual commercial exploitation.
69. The Special Rapporteur has also been informed that UNICEF has been supporting several
preventive and rehabilitation projects for minors at risk or victims of sexual commercial
exploitation or trafficking, notably in Africa and Asia. In some instances, these projects operate
jointly with State initiatives or with NGOs.
V. CONCLUSIONS
70. The Special Rapporteur would like to warmly thank all those who responded to the
questionnaire. The Special Rapporteur regrets that so few Member States have provided on-time
answers to his questionnaire, and notes with concern that the number of replies declined from
last year, which was already weak. This report does not pretend to give a comprehensive analysis
of the issue discussed; its aim is to rather highlight positive examples of national policies and
strategies as well as to discuss such examples of good practices developed by international
organizations, NGOs and the civil society in assistance and rehabilitation programmes for child
victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. Only relevant selections of the
experiences and initiatives on which information was received have been outlined in this report.
3
“Trafficking of women into the South African Sex industry and the trafficking of children for
purposes of sexual exploitation”, published by the organization Molo Songololo.
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