Child sex tourism in South Africa: A children's rights perspective

Abstract

In the words of Najat Maall M'jid, former United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography: 'As the world reflects on the universal development goals for the post- 2015 era, bearing in mind the strong connections between economic, social, and political development and child protection issues, childsensitive protection must be included in the Post-2015 Development Agenda..' Three World Congresses against the Sexual Exploitation of Children between 1996 and 2008 convened to specifically address the rapidly advancing Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (herein referred to as CSEC). In these conferences global commitments were undertaken by countries partaking, to provide measures to prevent prohibit and protect children from sexual exploitation.