Child Prostitution. The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. Republic of Yemen. Yemen's economic fortunes depend mostly on declining oil resources, but the country is trying to diversify its earnings. In Yemen began an economic reform program designed to bolster non-oil sectors of the economy and foreign investment. Some of these links may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated, misleading or even false.
No attempt has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. If you are looking for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this page and others to see which aspects of child prostitution are of particular interest to you. You might be interested in exploring how children got started, how they survive, and how some succeed in leaving.
Perhaps your paper could focus on runaways and the abuse that led to their leaving. Other factors of interest might be poverty, rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction, hunger, neglect, etc.
On the other hand, you might choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults who control this activity. There is a lot to the subject of Child Prostitution. Scan other countries as well as this one. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources that are available on-line. Check out some of the Resources for Teachers attached to this website. Poor Yemeni girls face job risks. Yemen Times, May 15, Many of the hotels in Aden have nightclubs that employ girls for this purpose, along with brothels in the area.
Seventy percent of the girls who work in prostitution are runaways from other governorates who left their homes to escape early marriages, ill-treatment from their parents or husbands, or because of poverty. In Taiz and Ibb as well, the high tourism season yields many visitors from wealthier Gulf countries who get married to a Yemeni girl for one, two or three weeks during their vacation so that they can legally have sexual relations.
