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Article

24 Déc 2009

Auteur:
Estonian Free Press

Sex Tourism in Estonia? Why Not?

When in the 1980s child-sex tourism, in other words sexual abuse of children by tourists was mainly associated with South Asia then now it is a problem of all the continents. Estonia, together with Germany, Italy, Austria, and Holland participates in a project of ECPAT International, an organisation fighting against child prostitution and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes, to spread awareness among our tourism companies and enterprises in the tourism industry…According to…Malle Roomeld, there are many risk factors in Estonia…“At the moment there is an economic recession, families are suffering under poverty, the lessen attention of parents have left children on their own,” said Roomeld. “No one is paying attention to what children are doing on internet to which they have unlimited access. We have many cases where children have been pushed to sexual exposure.”