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Thursday January 11, 6:50 PMUNICEF blasts child porn business in Cambodia(Kyodo) _ The U.N. Children's Fund on Thursday decried the use of Cambodian children in pornography, calling it a gross violation of children's rights."UNICEF is outraged that children in Cambodia are being used in pornography. Child pornography is a gross violation of children's rights, and UNICEF condemns any act where adults coerce or influence children to engage in sexual activity," said Marc Vergara, a spokesman for UNICEF's office in Cambodia. The statement came a day after local media revealed that pornographic films depicting children possibly as young as 7 are freely available from video disk vendors in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. The Cambodia Daily reported that the films sport Khmer-language titles such as "Luring Underage Child" and "70-year-old Grandfather Rapes 9-year-old Girl," and include scenes of bondage and sexual abuse. Vergara said widespread poverty, public tolerance of prostitution and pornography, sex tourism, availability of advanced communication technology, lack of stringent laws against child pornography and inefficient prosecution of perpetrators are several factors that make Cambodia attractive for people who produce child pornography. He lamented that apart from a few government regulations and instructions on administration and control of film and video, "there is presently no specific law penalizing child pornography in Cambodia." Cambodia has ratified the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, which obligate it to protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse. |
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