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{{Quote|м. Октомври 2009 г.|Според съвместно изследване, проведено от УНИЦЕФ и Националния съвет по семейството, случаите на физическо и психологическо насилие са се увеличили през изминалия период. Проучването показва, че '''поне 70% от учениците са подложени на някаква форма на физическо и психологическо насилие от родителите си или учителите си''' в училищата.<ref>[http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME03.WAM30145.html JORDANIAN PARENTS APPROVE BEATING CHILDREN IN SCHOOL, STUDY] - ANSAmed, October 21, 2009</ref>}}
{{Quote|м. Октомври 2009 г.|Според съвместно изследване, проведено от УНИЦЕФ и Националния съвет по семейството, случаите на физическо и психологическо насилие са се увеличили през изминалия период. Проучването показва, че '''поне 70% от учениците са подложени на някаква форма на физическо и психологическо насилие от родителите си или учителите си''' в училищата.<ref>[http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME03.WAM30145.html JORDANIAN PARENTS APPROVE BEATING CHILDREN IN SCHOOL, STUDY] - ANSAmed, October 21, 2009</ref>}}
===Холандия===
50% от жертвите на насилие на честта са били сексуално малтретирани.
{{Quote|Октомври 2010г.|Жертвите на престъпления, свързани с насилието на честта, са били сексуално малтретирани много по-често отколкото се смяташе преди време. Това е едно от най-важните заключения от проучването на холандската организация за социални услуги Fier Fryslân.
От 89-те жени, които са се обърнали към Fier Fryslân между м. януари 2008 г. и м. март 2010 г., 45 са били сексуално малтретирани от членове на семействата си, понякога и от повече от един човек.<BR>. . .<BR>
От 45-те сексуално малтретирани момичета, 52% са били малтретирани от братовчед, 22% от брат и 20% от чичо. 8% са били малтретирани от своя баща, 2% от доведения си баща и 2% от свои познати.<ref name="volkskrant.nl">{{cite web|url= http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/1031490/2010/10/11/Slachtoffers-eerwraak-vaak-misbruikt-door-familie.dhtml|title= Slachtoffers eerwraak vaak misbruikt door familie|publisher= Volkskrant (Dutch)|author= Karin Sitalsing|date= October 11, 2010|archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volkskrant.nl%2Fvk%2Fnl%2F2686%2FBinnenland%2Farticle%2Fdetail%2F1031490%2F2010%2F10%2F11%2FSlachtoffers-eerwraak-vaak-misbruikt-door-familie.dhtml&date=2013-09-27|deadurl=no}}</ref>}}


===Pakistan===
===Pakistan===

Версия от 10:38, 18 октомври 2018

Аборти

Мюсюманският свят

Въпреки законовите и религиозните ограничения срещу абортите в голяма част от арабския свят, променящите се обществени ценности и икономическа обстановка, както и демографските промени, са допринесли за явното им увеличение в района на Близкия Изток.
. . .

"Мисля, че абортите се увеличават само поради една причина: сексът става все по-достъпен“, казва Уисам Гандур, ливански акушер-гинеколог и учен. "Уверявам ви, че мнозинството от момичетата, които се омъжват днес, не са девствени и са сексуално активни."
. . .
Статистическите данни са разпокъсани. Експертите по семейно планиране казват, че са засекли 100 % увеличение в броя на абортите за период от две десетилетия..
. . .
Според ООН, около една от всеки десет бременности в региона завършва с аборт,
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Проучване на Международната федерация за планирано родителство отчита, че са извършени около 7 млн. аборти в арабския свят за периода между 1995 г. и 2000 г.[1]
м. Юни 2008 г.
Опасните аборти са един от най-пренебрегваните проблеми на обществено здраве в региона на Близкия Изток и Северна Африка,* където около една от всеки четири бременности са нежелани – хората искат да имат дете по-късно или не искат повече деца[2] Много жени с нежелани бременности се обръщат към нелегалните аборти, които са опасни. Според Световната здравна организация, около 1.5 млн. аборта в този регион през 2003 г. са извършени или в неболнични условия, или от неквалифицирани хора, или двете заедно. Усложненията от тези аборти са причина за около 11 % от смъртните случаи на майки в региона.[3]
. . .
*Регионът на Близкия Изток и Северна Африка в своята дефиниция включва държавите Алжир, Бахрейн, Египет, Иран, Ирак, Йордания, Кувейт, Либия, Мароко, Оман, Палестинската територия, Катар, Саудитска Арабия, Сирия, Тунис, Турция, ОАЕ и Йемен.[4]
м. Септември 2008 г.

Египет

Според анкета, публикувана през този месец от WorldPublicOpinion.org, 53% от египтяните… са против политиката на тяхното правителство за инкриминиране на абортите.
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Проучване, проведено през 1993 г., показва, че 14 % от жените от едно египетско село са правили аборт.[1]
м. Юни 2008 г.

Индонезия

Всяка година в Индонезия милиони жени се оказват с нежелана бременност и много от тях избират да прекратят бременността, въпреки факта, че абортът в като цяло е незаконен.
. . .

Макар че не съществуват надеждни доказателства, изследователите смятат, че около два милиона умишлени аборта се извършват всяка година в страната,[5], а смъртността заради опасен аборт достига 14-16 % от общата смъртност при майките в Югоизточна Азия..[6]
. . .

Приблизителните изчисления показват годишна стойност от 37 аборта на всеки 1000 жени в репродуктивна възраст (15-49 г.). Тези стойности са по-високи в сравнение с общата картина в Азия[7]
м. Октомври 2008 г.
Делът на нежеланите бременности при тийнейджърите, които са завършили с аборт достига 27% в Западна Ява през последната година, според Mitra Citra Remaja – организация за консултиране по младежките въпроси.[8]
м. Ноември 2012 г.
Ново проучване [на Индонезийската асоциация по семейно планиране] показа, че 83% от пациентките в клиниките за аборт в Индонезия са омъжени жени..[9]
м. Декември 2012 г.

Иран

Според анкета, публикувана през този месец от WorldPublicOpinion.org,… 55% от иранците са против политиката на тяхното правителство за инкриминиране на аборта.
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Изследователите отчитат, че в Иран се извършват около 100 000 аборта за една година, и това е една не-арабска държава, която се отличава със своето относително прогресивно сексуално образование и политика на семейно планиране.[1]
м. Юни 2008 г.

Мароко

Статистическите данни са разпокъсани. Експертите по семейно планиране казват, че са отчели увеличение от 100 % в броя на абортите за последните две десетилетия. Например Грайгаа каза, че този брой в Мароко се е удвоил.
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Мароканските експерти по семейно планиране изчисляват, че на ден се извършват около 600 аборта в тази северно-африканска държава, много голяма част от които са свързани с неомъжени жени. Много малък процент от тях са жертвите на изнасилване или сексуална злоупотреба, казват те.[1]
м. Юни 2008 г.

Пакистан

Поне 890 000 аборта се извършват в Пакистан, , което означава, че всяка шеста бременност бива прекъсвана. Тези цифри бяха съобщени от Пакистанското здравно-демографско проучване, което е единственото национално изследване върху инцидентите, свързани с абортите, каза д-р Азра Ахсан, гинеколог и технически консултант в Националния комитет за майчино и неонатално здраве. Тази сряда тя участва в дискусия, организирана от Комитета.[10]
м. Февруари 2011 г.

Убийства на пеленачета

В консервативните мюсюлмански народи, където раждането на дете извън брака е осъдително и прелюбодейството е престъпление, наказуемо със смърт според стриктните тълкувания на ислямското право, убийството на пеленачета е все по-често срещано престъпление.

Над 1000 пеленачета (повечето от които- момиченца) са убити или оставени да умрат в Пакистан през последната година, според консервативните оценки на Edhi Foundation, благотворителна организация, работеща за преодоляване на тази мрачна тенденция.

Цифрите за тези пеленачета са събрани единствено от големите градове на Пакистан, което оставя голяма част от територията на тази предимно селска държава неизследвана, а благотворителната организация твърди, че през м. декември е намерила 40 мъртви бебета, изоставени в кофи за боклук и отходни канали..

Броят на намерените мървти пеленачета (1200) е по-висок от 890-те през 2008 г. и 999-те през 2009 г., казва управителят на Edhi Foundation Ануар Казми...
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Повечето намерени деца са на възраст по-малко от седмица.
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Броят на умрелите пеленачета е много по-голям при момиченцата, казва управителят Казми, като 9 от всеки 10 намерени бебета от организацията са от женски пол..[11]
м. Януари 2011 г.

Палестина

Според анкета, публикува през този месец от WorldPublicOpinion.org… 57% от палестинците са против политика на тяхното правителство за инкриминиране на абортите.[1]
м. Юни 2008 г.

Злоупотреба с деца

Близкият Изток

Понеже в Близкия Изток на момичетата се смятат за по-малко ценни от момчетата, по тази причина може би тяхното използване с кръвосмесителни цели в детството е още по-разпространено. Един доклад разкри, че четири от пет жени в Близкия Изток имат спомен за случаи на принуда да правят фелацио между 3 и 6-годишна възраст от своите по-големи братя или други роднини.[12]

Наскоро една арабска лекарка проведе задълбочено проучване за съблазняването на деца и съобщи, че „повечето деца от женски пол са подложени на… инциденти, свързани със сексуално насилие“ по време на детските си години от своите „брат, братовчед, чичо, вуйчо, дядо или дори баща. Ако не е член на семейството, това може да бъде попечителят или портиера на къщата, учителят, синът на съседа или всеки друг мъж.“[13] Тя казва, че тормозът започва с мастурбация или фелацио и след това продължава със сношение. „В повечето случаи момичето се предава и се страхува да се оплаче на някого, понеже ако трябва да се изпълни някакво наказание, то в крайна сметка винаги ще бъде понесено от нея. Единствено тя е изгубила своята чест и девственост. Мъжът никога не губи нищо…“ Инцидентите се определят като „чести, но остават скрити на съхранение в тайните кътчета на детската ѝ душа, понеже тя не се осмелява да каже на никого какво се е случило с нея…“.[14]

Индонезия

Индонезия заема първо място в списъка, воден от органите на ООН за случаи на детски трафик.

Данните на ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children – международна НПО с цел прекратяване сексуалната експлоатация на деца) показват, че вероятно над 70 000 деца в Индонезия са били жертви на сексуална експлоатация.
. . .

От организацията казват, че болшинството от жертвите са от Западна, Централна и Източна Ява, Западен Калимантан и Северна Суматра. В много случаи на децата се обещава да работят като домашни помощници, но завършват в бордеите с проститутки.

Повече от 3900 деца са станали жертва на човешки трафик през първата половина на годината, според Международната миграционна организация. Държавата оглавява списъка, воден от органите на ООН за случаите на детски трафик..[15]
м. Ноември 2011 г.

62% от случаите на злоупотреба с деца през 2012 г. са със сексуален характер.

“Вече обявихме 2013 г. като година на националното осъзнаване за сексуалната злоупотреба с деца.
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Тя е нещо напълно неприемливо“, казва Арист Мердека Сираит, председател на Националния комитет за закрила на детето (Komnas PA) - НПО, която информира обществото за проблемите на децата. Налице е тревожен скок в броя на случаите с детска сексуална експлоатация. През 2010 г. Komnas PA получи 2046 сигнала за насилие срещу деца, 42% от които са били със сексуален характер.През 2012 г. бройката нараства до 2637 случая, като 62% от тях са свързани със сексуално насилие.[16]
м. Март 2013 г.

Израел

Бедуини и други араби в Северен Негев участват все по-често в експлоататорски връзки с невръстни еврейски момичета, a според „Гласът на Израел“, радио, управлявано от правителството. Връзките понякога започват като романтични увлечения, често с малолетни деца и прерастват в изнасилвания, отвличания и злоупотреба..

Само през последния месеца седем от жертвите са на възраст между 11 и 18 г. И това са само случаите, които са били съобщени на полицията, но се смята, че много други подобни инциденти са се случили без да бъдат докладвани.

Само през последния месец в Кирят Малахи четири жалби за отвличания са били отнесени към полицията, а петият случай е за изнасилване.

Радио „Гласът на Израел“ съобщава, че във всичките четири случаи на отвличания в Кирят Малахи участват мъже-бедуини. Изнасилването се е случило на плажа в Ашкелон през миналия уикенд.

В други случаи на отвличане, двама мъже от бедуинския град Рахат, на възраст 40 и 24 г., са били арестувани, но единият вече е бил освободен.

В случая с изнасилването главният заподозрян е жител на Палестинската автономия, която нелегално се установява в Израел през 1967 г. Мъжът получава обвинение, а други двама араби, които също са присъствали на местопрестъплението, получават по-леки обвинения.

Репортерът на „Гласът на Израел“ за Южен Израел Асиф Кузаилов казва, че този феномен бележи ръст и е добре познат – на жителите, на полицията и на социалните власти. Това се потвърждава от Центъра за подпомагане на жените в Негев.
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Яд Л‘Ахим съобщава , че всяка година възникват около 1000 случая на еврейски момичета, които биват държани насила от араби.

Организацията „The Family Lobby”, която обвинява за проблема разпадането на родителския (и в частност – бащиния) авторитет в еврейската част, отбелязва, че израелското феминистко движение и женските организации не правят нищо, за да повишат обществената осведоменост относно грабителското поведение на арабите към еврейските момичета, тъй като това би довело до конфликт с тяхното ляво кредо.

"Докато разделянето на автобусите в харедимската част и исканията на религиозните воини да бъдат извинени заради неприлично поведение получават водещите заглавия в продължение на месеци, благодарение на войнстващите феминистки политици и журналисти, реалните случаи на изнасилвания и отвличания на малолетни момичета биват заметени под килима от тези групи, защото са извършени от техните скъпи арабски приятели“, казва председателят на организацията Гил Ронен. „За съжаление националистите и религиозните жени не положиха никакви усилия, за да създадат независима програма за своите групи от жени по този проблем и се задоволяват да бъдат водени от хора с ултра-леви идеи, които ги използват, за да нанасят удари по религиозните мъже и юдейската религия като цяло."[17]
м. Декември 2011 г.

Йордания

Според съвместно изследване, проведено от УНИЦЕФ и Националния съвет по семейството, случаите на физическо и психологическо насилие са се увеличили през изминалия период. Проучването показва, че поне 70% от учениците са подложени на някаква форма на физическо и психологическо насилие от родителите си или учителите си в училищата.[18]
м. Октомври 2009 г.

Холандия

50% от жертвите на насилие на честта са били сексуално малтретирани.

Жертвите на престъпления, свързани с насилието на честта, са били сексуално малтретирани много по-често отколкото се смяташе преди време. Това е едно от най-важните заключения от проучването на холандската организация за социални услуги Fier Fryslân.

От 89-те жени, които са се обърнали към Fier Fryslân между м. януари 2008 г. и м. март 2010 г., 45 са били сексуално малтретирани от членове на семействата си, понякога и от повече от един човек.
. . .

От 45-те сексуално малтретирани момичета, 52% са били малтретирани от братовчед, 22% от брат и 20% от чичо. 8% са били малтретирани от своя баща, 2% от доведения си баща и 2% от свои познати.[19]
Октомври 2010г.

Pakistan

Пакистански министър съобщи за стотици случаи на предполагаема сексуална злоупотреба с деца в ислямските училища или (мадраси) .

През тази година а постъпили 500 жалби за предполагаема злоупотреба, казва Аамер Лиакуат Хусаин, министър по религиозните въпроси.

За сравнение с година, тогава случаите са били 2000, но въпреки това все още няма успешни съдебни процес, , казва г-н Хусаин пред БиБиСи(BBC).

Разкритията на министъра предизвикаха смъртни заплахи и разгневиха някои религиозни политически водачи.

Министър Хусаин казва, че макар да е получил смъртни заплахи от духовници, той е свършил работата си и съвестта му е чиста.

Дошло е времето неговата страна да се срещне с горчивата истина – болестта на злоупотребата с деца, казва той. [20]
м. Декември 2004 г.

Жертвите на сексуално насилие в Пенджаб са 68% момичета и 32% момчета (90% от населението на Пенджаб е мюсюлманско).

Педофилията в Пенджаб достига обезпокоителни нива
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Отминаха вече две години откакто Националния законопроект за закрила на децата беше внесен в парламента. Предложеният закон можеше да бъде вид пробив за невинните момичета и момчета, които биват насилвани и убивани в цялата страна, но липсата на интерес от страна на депутатите ясно показва, че няма никакъв начин този законопроект да бъде одобрен. По същия начин пенджабското правителство все така не успява да изпълнява обещанията си за строги мерки срещу извършителите на детско насилие, като ги съди по силата на Антитерористичния Акт.

Според последната статистика, предоставена от SAHIL, НПО, Пенджаб оглавява списъка с насилие върху деца с 62% дял от всички случаи, 154 е техният брой в Лахоре, а останалите са в другите пенджабски градове.

Като цяло, съотношението момичета-момчета при жертвите на педофилия е 68:32% . Общият брой се е увеличил с 9.4% в сравнение с 2008 г. Статистиката показва, че около 81% от случаите са били регистрирани в полицията. Проучването съобщава, че 2012 деца са били малтретирани през 2009 г. и повечето от тях са били малтретирани от познати хора.

Докладът казва, че децата от групата на възраст 11-15 г. са най-уязвими, следвани от възрастовата група на 6-10-годишните. От общо 2012 жертви, 6% от децата са убити, след като са били сексуално малтретирани. Въпреки това 0.5% са случаите на деца, които са били убити по време на „опит“ за сексуално нападение.

Според изследването „е трудно да се съберат актуални данни спрямо престъпленията срещу деца, понеже извършителите заплашват децата да не споделят на никого за преживяванията си, дори и със своите родители“.

Съдебните процеси: Дори в случаи, когато престъпниците са разкрити, хората са неспособни да ги осъдят, защото липсват солидни доказателства. Поради липсата на доказателства и социалната стигма, родителите и децата-жертви често избират да си замълчат, като по този начин тези инциденти биват игнорирани. [21]
м. Юли 2010 г.
In the last two years, the average age of a rape survivor dropped from 18 years to 16 years
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While talking to The Express Tribune, the NGO’s director Sara Zaman said that similar to the trend in 2010, raping and killing young children had increased. She added that the youngest rape victim in 2011 was a three-year-old girl.

“Children are raped because they are easily accessible and vulnerable,” she said. “They are murdered after the rape to protect the predator’s identity. It is difficult to kill an adult.” Zaman added that in their meetings it was suggested that around 50 cases of sexual violence were not reported because of two main reasons. In some cases, the police refused to file a complaint and in the other, the families were reluctant to talk about it.

In Karachi, 29 percent victims of sexual violence in 2011 belonged to the age bracket of 12-17 years - the group being most vulnerable. At least 27 percent of the young victims fell in the age group of 6-11 years.

Around 37 per cent of survivors were children under the age of 12 while 66 per cent were children under 18. The report mentions that nearly 80 per cent of sexual assault survivors were females while the remaining 20 per cent were male.[22]
March 2012

Saudi Arabia

According to recent studies, 60 percent of all sexual assault victims are minors. Family members commit nearly one third of these incidents.

Addressing the issue of family violence at the Jeddah Chamber of Industry and Commerce on Sunday night, Inaam Robai, chairperson of the Committee for Protecting Children’s Rights at the Armed Forces Hospital, said that child abuse in Saudi Arabia has become a very serious issue.
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She pointed out that Interior Ministry studies have shown that 45 percent of children are mistreated during their daily lives.
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Robai cited a study of Makkah households estimating that 77 percent of child abusers are parents.[23]
December 2006
Domestic violence against children is on the rise in Saudi Arabia, according to the latest figures released by the Saudi National Human Rights Society.

"Nearly 45 per cent of children in the Kingdom are facing some sort of abuse and domestic violence," the group pointed out.
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The overwhelming majority of victims in domestic violence cases are girls, with a whopping percentage of 78 whereas the case of boys accounts for 21.6 per cent.[24]
December 2008
More than 23% of children in Saudi society have been raped. ...the study was directed at university students. Twenty-three percent had been raped during their childhood. For 62% of those, the rape was never reported. This was because it was one of the victim’s relatives.[25]
December 2008
Two studies have been issued on the issue of child abuse in the last two months. The first one, conducted in the United States, claims one in six children would be subjected to sexual abuse.

The second study, conducted in Saudi Arabia by Dr. Nura Al-Suwaiyan, director of the family safety program at the National Guard Hospital, revealed one in four children is [sexually] abused in the Kingdom.

This clearly shows that children are far more likely to be molested in the Kingdom than in the United States!
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The reason for this is the way each country deals with the problem. From a legal point of view, while sexual harassment against children in the US is considered a heinous crime, we look at it as a mistake or a wrongdoing, not as a crime, unless the child has been raped.[26]
July 2010
A report issued by the Saudi Ministry of Social Affairs revealed that 45 percent of children in the kingdom are victims of different forms of violence, raising concerns about lack of awareness in the society.

“Children are increasingly subjected to violence whether at home or in the classroom and this is a very dangerous phenomenon,” psychologist Sanaa al-Howaili was quoted as saying by the Saudi newspaper al-Riyadh.[27]
November 2012

Turkey

According to figures provided by the state Social Services and Child Protection Agency (SHÇEK), 2,678 -- 18 percent -- of the 14,398 children currently living in SHÇEK homes have been subject to physical or sexual abuse by their parents. “The number of children pushed into crime has been rising by 5 to 10 percent annually. On average, 125,000 children appear before the courts each year. Thirty-four percent of children below the age of 6 are living in poverty across the country; and that figure is around 40 percent in rural areas. Although we have good legislation on child rights, most of it is not being applied as it should be,” Polat said. He also noted that about 37 percent of Turkey’s street children had run away from homes in the East and Southeast, the most impoverished regions of the country.

Noting that according to Justice Ministry figures, 7,000 children are subject to sexual harassment and rape annually, Polat noted that the frequency of incest incidents and sexual crimes against children by members of their families have been consistently increasing. In 2000, 7 percent of the children placed in SHÇEK homes were there as a result of sexual abuse at home, but that percentage has risen to 15 percent over the past few years.

The unofficial figures are frightening. According to a study conducted by the Association for the Rehabilitation of Children and their Protection from Abuse (ÇİKORED), 58 percent of all girls and 42 percent of all boys whose mothers have been accepted by a women’s shelter in the country have also been subject to sexual abuse at home. Nearly all of the women who have taken refuge from domestic violence at these shelters, 92 percent, beat their own children regularly, ÇİKORED’s study in women’s shelters found.
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Associate Professor Figen Şahin, chairwoman of the Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect and director of the Child Protection Center at Gazi University, spoke to Today’s Zaman, claiming that about 35 percent of the children in Turkey suffer from physical abuse and that 30 percent are victims of sexual abuse.

“There are no reliable statistics about the sexual abuse of children in Turkey. There have been several studies, though. Some of them suggest that 4 percent of children are victims of incest in the country while some others have found this number to be as high as 18 percent. However, these figures are the tip of the iceberg. It has been found that 35 percent of the children in Turkey are subject to physical violence. Beating is used as a method of education. Although there are different interpretations of the data on sexual abuse, it is obvious that the molesters are primarily people trusted by the victims. About 50 percent of the molesters come from among the relatives and close circles of the children’s families. In general, molestation is not done by force, but through deception,” she said.[28]
June 2008

United Kingdom

Note that the "Asian" gangs grooming young girls were also targeting Hindu and Sikh children,[29] and that Pakistan is 96 percent Muslim.[30]

One in four men accused of ‘street grooming’ underage girls for sex is Asian, a shocking report reveals.

In total, 2,379 offenders are suspected of attempting to lure vulnerable victims, often using drugs and alcohol, over the past three years.

And a ‘disproportionate’ 28 per cent of them were found to be Asian, in those cases where ethnicity was recorded. The ethnic group makes up just six per cent of the UK population.

But although the figures are likely to provoke controversy, officials warn that they are incomplete and potentially misleading.

The report was ordered after the ringleaders of a Derby gang, which subjected a string of vulnerable girls to rapes and sexual assaults, were jailed earlier this year. Following the case, former home secretary Jack Straw accused some Pakistani men in Britain of seeing white girls as ‘easy meat’ for sexual abuse.

Several police forces have investigations currently going on into gangs suspected of systematically abusing young girls.[31]
June 2011
The programme [Exposed: Groomed for Sex], shown on BBC3 on Monday night, was looking at 'on-street' grooming of young girls with Asian Muslim offenders making up 25 per cent of those suspected of this crime.[32]
December 2011
Britain's madrassas have faced more than 400 allegations of physical abuse in the past three years, a BBC investigation has discovered.

But only a tiny number have led to successful prosecutions.

The revelation has led to calls for formal regulation of the schools, attended by more than 250,000 Muslim children every day for Koran lessons.

The chairman of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board said he would treat the issue as a matter of urgency.

Leading Muslim figures said families often faced pressure not to go to court or even to make a formal complaint.

A senior prosecutor told the BBC its figures were likely to represent the tip of an iceberg.

BBC Radio 4's File on 4 asked more than 200 local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales how many allegations of physical and sexual abuse had come to light in the past three years.

One hundred and ninety-one of them agreed to provide information, disclosing a total of 421 cases of physical abuse. But only 10 of those cases went to court, and the BBC was only able to identify two that led to convictions.

The councils also disclosed 30 allegations of sexual abuse in the Islamic supplementary schools over the past three years, which led to four prosecutions but only one conviction.

The offender in that case was Mohammed Hanif Khan, an imam from Stoke-on-Trent who was imprisoned for 16 years in March this year for raping a 12-year-old boy and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old.[33]
October 2011
Mohammed Shafiq, director of the Ramadhan Foundation, said of the 68 recent convictions involving child sexual exploitation, 59 were of British Pakistani men, "so clearly we have got a problem when it comes to on-street grooming".[34]
May 2012

The sentencing judge has said the following cases were motivated in part by religion (also note that all of the men were Muslims, and one was even an Islamic preacher):[35]

Nine men of Pakistani origin are accused of having raped 631 teenage girls from youth shelters over the past five years, the Times of London reports, explaining that on Tuesday the rapists were all found guilty of sexual violence by a court in Liverpool. The victims, writes the Times, were drawn from centers, drugged or made drunk and taken to apartments, pubs and clubs with the complicity of the taxi driver to Greater Manchester, in Lancashire, and West Yorkshire where they were systematically raped. Two of the girls from shelters in Manchester and Rochdale died because of the violence.

According to the Times investigations verified that the youth shelters, which have over 1,800 teenagers, registered 631 cases of girls between the ages of 12 and 16 being used for sexual purposes, of which 187 in the last ten months alone. The trial, which saw nine men between 22 and 59-years of age sentenced, among whom eight were of Pakistani origin and one Afghan exile, out of a total of 26 arrests and 56 questioned, revealed that many cases could have been avoided if the police had not ignored a complaint made in 2008 by a social services employee who spoke of "clear evidence of sexual exploitation organized in youth centers." At the same time, a complaint by a 15-year-old girl claiming to have been raped by ten men was considered not reliable by the police. The behavior forced the Manchester police and Rochdale social services to publicly apologize for mistakes that "delivered children into the hands of rapists."[36]
May 2012

United States

We do know that roughly 1 in 58 children is abused in the United States... Roughly 53 percent of abused children in America are neglected, in other words, the parents fail to provide a minimum standard of care that meets the child’s physical and emotional needs. About 10 percent of [the 1 in 58] abused children are physically abused by their parent/guardian.
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If we look at the incidence of child abuse in Muslim-majority countries, our numbers are much higher than those in America, and because our cultural norms immigrate with us, it stands to reason that Muslim American children are abused at a higher rate than non-Muslim children in the U.S.[37]
June 2012

Yemen

Nearly 94 percent of Yemeni children aged between two and 14 years old are subject to psychological or physical violence from their parents or guardians, according to the Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) [study, which involved 4,000 families across the country] conducted by Ministry of Public Health and Population in September 2006.

The results of the survey, which took place over a period of 21 days, were made public at a workshop held last month. They show that 82 percent of these children are subjected to physical punishments, of whom 44 percent were boys and 38 percent were girls.[38]
November 2008

Child Marriage

Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, despite the law against child brides, more than half of all girls are married before they turn 15, usually to settle disputes.
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A Unicef study from 2000 to 2008 found that more than 43 per cent of women in Afghanistan were married under age, some before puberty.

In 2009 Human Rights Watch and Unifem, a UN agency, classified 57 per cent of all brides as under age, which is below 16. Despite the changes in the state law, not much seems to have changed since then[39]
October 2011

Azerbaijan

93% of Azerbaijan's population identify as Muslim.[40]

Officials in Azerbaijan are so concerned by the number of women getting married under-age that parliament is discussing raising the minimum age for marriage to 18.

Women’s rights activists say corrupt religious officials are prepared to conduct Islamic ceremonies for couples when the woman is too young for a state service, leaving her unprotected if her husband leaves her, uneducated and vulnerable to medical complications.
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In Khachmaz, a city near Azerbaijan’s border with Russia, of 2,500 pupils in their final year of school, almost 130 girls were not attending since they had already married. The headmaster, she said, took no action, although education is compulsory.

But her organisation’s research shows that the problem of young marriages is most pronounced in the southern regions bordering Iran.[41]
November 2009

Bangladesh

According to statistics from 2005, 45% of women then between 25 and 29 were married by the age of 15 in Bangladesh. According to the “State of the World’s Children-2009” report, 63% of all women aged 20–24 were married before the age of 18.[42][43]
2005

Canada

Muslim child brides are on the rise

Federal immigration officials say there’s little they can do to stop “child brides” from being sponsored into Canada by much older husbands who wed them in arranged marriages abroad.

Top immigration officials in Canada and Pakistan say all they can do is reject the sponsorships of husbands trying to bring their child-brides to Canada. The men have to reapply when the bride turns 16. The marriages are permitted under Sharia Law.

Muslim men, who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents return to their homeland to wed a “child bride” in an arranged marriage in which a dowry is given to the girl’s parents. Officials said some of the brides can be 14 years old or younger and are “forced” to marry. The practice occurs in a host of countries including: Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Lebanon.

Not valid in Canada

Canadian visa officer Steve Bulmer said in classified documents he refused to allow one Pakistani man to sponsor his 15-year-old bride in August 2009.

“I can find no section (of law) that states the marriage is ‘invalid’ or ‘void,” Bulmer wrote in e-mails obtained by lawyer Richard Kurland under Access of Information. “I am afraid the age does not invalidate the marriage even if it is illegal to marry.”

Abdul Hameed, of the Canadian embassy in Islamabad, said child marriages are not valid in Canada.

“A child marriage is punishable but it does not render the marriage invalid,” Hameed said. “We are refusing such application on grounds the marriage will not be valid as per Canadian laws.”

William Hawke, of immigration’s Permanent Resident Unit, said the young brides won’t be allowed in Canada.

“Sponsorship applications submitted for a spouse under 16 will be refused,” he said.[44]
March 2010

Germany

More than 3,000 women and girls in Germany, most from Muslim families and many of them minors, faced forced marriage in the course of a year, official research released this week indicates.

The first federal study of its kind found 3,443 recorded cases in 2008 - the most recent year with sufficient data - in which people living in Germany were forced to wed or threatened with a forced marriage.

Most were between the ages of 18 and 21, although nearly a third of them were under the age of 17.
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More than half were beaten or otherwise physically abused to convince them to marry, while more than one in four were threatened with weapons or told they would be killed if they did not go through with the marriage.[45]
November 2011

Iran

Farshid Yazdani, a member of the Association for the Defense of Children’s Rights, has raised the flag on the increasing rate of the marriage of girls under the age of 10 in Iran. He stated that in 2009, 449 girls under the age of 10 were married off. The number increased to 716 cases in 2011.

Yazdani added that the number of marriages for girls under 15 years of age has increased from 33,383 in 2006 to 35,931 in 2007, 37,996 in 2008, and 43,459 last year (please note that the dates are approximate as the statistics were given according to the Iranian calendar, which begins at the start of the Persian New Year).

According to Yazdani, the rate of marriages of girls under the age of 15 has had a 45% increase compared to marriages in other age brackets. He added that these figures are based on the statistics released by Iran’s Civil Registrations Office, and they should set off alarms for social activists and policy makers.[46]
March 2012
A new report from Iran has revealed a striking rise in the number of child brides under the age of 10-years-old.

The Union for the Protection of Children’s Rights said that in 2010, at least 713 marriages of girls under 10-years-old were registered in the country, more than twice as many as registered in the three years before.
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The report also released numbers for 2010, which showed some 342,000 marriage contracts among adolescents under 18-years-old were registered, of which 42,000 involved girls between the age of 10 to 14.
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The Iranian parliament website in referring to the Head of the Civil Registry in Tehran said that in 2011, the province registered 3,929 marriages among children between 10- to 14-years-old and another 1,927 marriages for children aged 15 to 19, Bernama news agency reported.

The number of marriages for girls in the 10-15 age range could be more, according to Yezdani.

About 55 percent of child marriages are registered in cities and 45 percent in villages.[47]
August 2012

Iraq

Officials are alarmed by what they describe as a worsening epidemic of suicides, particularly among young women tormented by being forced to marry too young, to someone they do not love.

While reliable statistics on anything are hard to come by in Iraq, officials say there have been as many as 50 suicides this year in this city of 350,000 — at least double the rate in the United States — compared with 80 all of last year. The most common methods among women are self-immolation and gunshots.

Among the many explanations given, like poverty and madness, one is offered most frequently: access to the Internet and to satellite television, which came after the start of the war. This has given young women glimpses of a better life, unencumbered by the traditions that have constricted women for centuries to a life of obedience and child-rearing, one devoid of romance.[48]
June 2012

Kyrgyzstan

There is no reliable figure, but rights activists estimate that nearly 12,000 women and girls are kidnapped and forced into marriage annually.

A 2011 UN report cites studies showing that as many as 80 percent of all marriages in some rural areas are the result of bride kidnapping.

Bride snatching in Kyrgyzstan is tightly connected to the issue of underage marriage since many of the abducted brides are less than 18 years old, the minimum legal age for marriage.

Children's rights activist Elena Voronina maintains that phenomenon has been on the rise in recent years.

"[My colleagues and I] are sure that early marriage is increasing rather than decreasing,' she said."[According to statistics from 2006], approximately 12 percent of women get married before 18. Most of them live in rural areas and they are from disadvantaged families. According to our recent statistics, the rate for early marriage is 14.2 percent in rural places and 9 percent in cities."
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Many kidnapped brides have their union sanctioned by a religious ceremony. But underage marriages are generally not registered by the state, leaving the girls with few legal rights.[49]
October 2012

Malaysia

August, 2010, in a country where Muslims now amount to 60% of the total population, the Malaysian State of southern Malacca legalized child marriages specifically between Muslim men and Muslim girls below the age of 16[50]

Data in the 2010 progress report to the United Nations on HIV in Malaysia prepared by the Ministry of Health reveals shocking statistics on the number of Muslim girls under the age of 14 who have undergone pre-marital HIV screening in order to get married.

The data shows that 32 girls under the age of 10 and 445 girls between the ages of 10 and 14 went through this testing in 2009 alone in preparation for marriage!

What is also significant is that this phenomenon is taking place in the more developed states in Malaysia, with the highest numbers recorded in Penang (195), Malacca (103) and Johor (87).[51]
June 2010
There was an increase in marriages involving underage Muslims in the Federal Territory last year.

This goes against the assumption that child marriages are now on the decline due to changing cultural trends.

Last year [2009], 49 Muslim girls under 16 years of age and 39 boys under 18 tied the knot.

According to the statistics provided by the Federal Territory Religious Department, this number was higher compared with the previous year.
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In 2008, 40 girls and 28 boys below the permitted age registered their marriages.
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It was also reported last week that, according to the 2000 Census, there were 11,400 children below 15 years of age who were married -- 6,800 girls and 4,600 boys.[52]
June 2010
Malaysian girls under the age of 16 are not permitted to drive or buy cigarettes but they can legally get married, and are increasingly doing so.

In 2012, there were around 1,165 applications for marriage in which one party, usually the bride, is younger than the legal marrying age, according to statistics from the Malaysian Shariah Judiciary Department (JKSM).

The Shariah Courts approved 1,022 of them.

In Malaysia, the legal minimum marriage age is 18, but it is 16 for Muslim girls.

Those aged below 16 can marry with the consent of the Shariah Court.

This is an increase from the 2011 record, when some 900 marriages, involving at least one Muslim minor, were approved, The Star reported today.

As of May this year, JKSM received 600 marriage applications, of which 446 had been approved. [53]
October 2013

Morocco

The legal minimum age for marriage in Morocco is 18 years, although family judges are empowered to allow exceptions. This loophole has enabled thousands of families to marry off their daughters prematurely. According to figures from the justice ministry, over 31,000 under-age girls were married in 2008, compared with 29,847 in 2007.[54]
May 2009

Niger

As in Hadiza’s case, a fistula is often a result of a child marriage. Here in Niger, about three-quarters of girls are married before the age of 18. “Some of these ladies here have never had a period,” Dr. Arrowsmith noted. “They became pregnant the first time they ovulated, and then their uterus was destroyed.” [55]
July 2013

Nigeria

Northern Nigeria has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world: nearly half of all girls here are married by the age of 15.

The consequences have been devastating. Nigeria has the highest maternal mortality rate in Africa and one of the world’s highest rates of fistula, a condition that can occur when the pressure of childbirth tears a hole between the vagina and the bladder or rectum. Many women are left incontinent for life. Up to 800,000 women suffer from fistula in Nigeria.
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Dr Waaldijk operates on up to 600 women a year, with no electricity or running water... Some have been divorced by their husbands - it is estimated that up to half of adolescent girls in northern Nigeria are divorced... The Nigerian federal Government has attempted to outlaw child marriage. In 2003 it passed the Child Rights Act, prohibiting marriage under the age of 18. In the Muslim northern states, though, there has been fierce resistance to the Act, with many people portraying it as antiIslamic.
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Half of Nigeria’s 36 states have passed the Act, but it has been adopted by only one of the dozen Muslim states - and even that one made a crucial amendment substituting the age of 18 for the term “puberty”.

Each state in Nigeria has the constitutional right to amend legislation to comply with its local traditions and religion, meaning that central government is powerless to impose a minimum age of marriage.[56]
November 2008

Pakistan

according to UNICEF, child marriages accounted for 32 per cent of all marriages in the country from 1987 to 2005.
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Around 100 million girls are expected to enter into child marriage in the next decade
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Qindeel Shujaat, legal adviser on human rights, said that while there are laws to prevent child marriages, the Child Marriages Restraint Act 1929 hasn’t been modified in 82 years. “The punishment for violating the law is a fine of Rs1,000, or one month imprisonment. If a marriage involving children takes place, the adults are punished, but the marriage is not dissolved,” she said. However, according to Shujaat, the law’s implementation is non-existentant.[57]
September 2012

Palestine

According the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 682 girls aged 14 and younger were legally married in 2000. Two of them were married to men who were 35 or older, 13 to men 30 to 34, 117 to men 25 to 29, 378 to men 20 to 24 and 172 to men 15 to 19. Child marriages of girls 14 and younger made up 2.9 per cent of the total number of registered marriages. In the same year, 13,163 Palestinian girls between 15 and 19 were legally married, surpassing 55 per cent of all registered marriages.

Local human rights organizations are deeply concerned about child marriage in Palestinian society. Participants of a conference in Gaza dedicated to this issue in January 2008, organized by the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS), warned of the “significant rise in child marriage rate” and its severe psychological and physical implications on the youth.[58][59]
February 2010

Saudi Arabia

Though there has been no exact figure of child marriages, some studies published in the media suggested that no less than 3,000 girls in the Kingdom were under 13 when they got married, while their husbands were at least 25 years their senior.[60]
March 2011

Turkey

Thirty-nine percent of married women in the southern province of Şanlıurfa were 16 or younger on their wedding day, according to the Istanbul-based Social Democracy Foundation, which is campaigning against the practice.

They typically marry in religious ceremonies and delay civil marriage until they’re of age, according to the foundation. "As long as you have people in Turkey who say this is okay and who use Islam to justify it, it remains a big problem," says Amanda Akçakoca, an analyst at the European Policy Center in Brussels.[61]
November 2008
... as reported in the daily newspaper Haber Türk (Turkish News) of January 6, 2012 ... in Diyarbakır, a major city in southeastern Turkey, 415 girls aged 11 to 17 gave birth in the first 10 months of 2011. Of the new mothers, one was 11, one was 12, four were 13, 13 were 14, 44 were 15, 115 were 16, and 237 were 17 years old.[62]
January 2012
The number of child brides in Turkey totals in excess of 181,000 as of this month, according to data released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TürkStat), said Nazan Moroğlu, head of the Turkish Association of University Women (TÜKD), at a meeting held in the southern province of Adana on Sunday.[63]
November 2012

United Kingdom

The number of forced marriages has increased more than ten-fold in just four years, government figures have revealed.

More than 770 suspected cases were reported to the Forced Marriage Unit this year, up from 152 in 2005.

If the trend continues, by the end of this year more than 1,540 Britons will have been coerced into a marriage they do not want to enter - an increase of more than 913 per cent.

The practice affects mainly young Asian women, with more than a third of cases involving those aged under 18. One in six victims are under 16.

Advisors said they are dealing with hundreds of schoolchildren who have confided to teachers that they fear they will be taken abroad in the summer holidays and forced to marry.[64]
July 2009
Research by the Conservatives has found that the British High Commission in Pakistan has had to deal with 124 cases of forced marriage involving British citizens in the past year alone. The figure comes from the British High Commission in Islamabad’s End of Year Review for 2008/9, obtained through a Freedom of Information Request.[65]
November 2009

Islington is a neighbourhood in Greater London, England, with an estimated population of 199,130, 8% of whom identify as Muslim.[66]

AN alarming number of under-age girls – some as young as nine – are being forced into marriage in Islington, according to a leading campaign group.

The Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) claim that at least 30 girls in the borough were forced into marriage in 2010.
. . .
[IKWRO] has shown the Tribune records which revealed at least three 11-year-old girls and two nine-year-olds had been forced into marriage with older men within Islington. The oldest girls involved were 16.

They have warned that hundreds of Islington girls could be suffering sexual, emotional and physical scars as a result of the child marriages every year and are calling for teachers, social workers and police to be better trained to spot and manage the abuse.
. . .
Information from the Ministry of Justice, following a Freedom of Information request, revealed that 32 Forced Marriage Protection Order applications were made for children under 16 in Britain last year.
. . .
At the Islington court, “five or fewer” orders were made to protect children between the ages of 9-11.
. . .
Dianna Nammi, director of IKWRO, explained that the girls are married in a mosque’s sharia court. This means they are not legally married according to British law, rendering the Home Office unable to recognise or prove the abuse.

“They are still expected to carry out their wifely duties, though, and that includes sleeping with their husband,” she said.

“They have to cook for them, wash their clothes, everything. They are still attending schools in Islington, struggling to do their primary school homework, and at the same time being practically raped by a middle-aged man regularly and being abused by their families. So they are a wife, but in a primary school uniform.[67]
January 2012

Yemen

Yemeni parliament had actually approved a law last year that set a minimum marriageable age of 17 for boys and 18 for girls. (Significantly, the family of Elham Mahdi al Assi lied that she was 18 years old). According to the UN statistics, more than half of Yemeni girls got married before reaching puberty. That means more than half of all marriages in Yemen are child marriages. In line with the UN statistics, the Gender Development Research and Studies Centre at Sana’a University carried out a study on early marriage in 2008 and found that 52.1 per cent of girls are under 18 when they wed, compared with 6.7 per cent of boys.

But following the approving of the law by Parliament, thousands of conservative Yemeni women actually demonstrated outside parliament last month to protest the implementation of a minimum marriageable age [They were holding up copies of the Qur'an while stating that the proposed law is un-Islamic].[68] Because of the opposition to the proposed law, it did not come into force. Had that law been approved, parents of children involved in child (underaged) marriage could be fined $500 or jailed for a year.[69]
April 2010
Yemen is full of child brides. Roughly half of Yemeni girls are married before 18, some as young as eight.[70]
November 2008

Violence by Children

Germany

Study finds religious Muslim boys are more violent than other boys

A study that shows boys growing up in religious Muslim families are more likely to be violent seems set to reignite the debate over religion and integration, a media report said on Sunday.

The study, which involved intensive questioning of 45,000 teenagers from 61 towns and regions across the country, was conducted by Christian Pfeiffer of the criminal research institute of Lower Saxony.

Pfeiffer said he was dismayed by the results, and told the Süddeutsche Zeitung he was a strong critic of political campaigns which painted foreigners as criminals – such as those led by Roland Koch and Thilo Sarrazin.

Pfeiffer’s work took into account the level of education and standard of living in the families of the children – aged between 14 and 16 – who were questioned. He also asked them how religious they considered themselves, and how integrated they felt in Germany.

Pfeiffer said that even when other social factors were taken into account, there remained a significant correlation between religiosity and readiness to use violence. There were some positive correlations too he said, noting that young religious Muslims were much less likely than their non-Muslim counterparts to drink alcohol – or to steal from shops.

The increased likelihood to use violence was restricted to Muslim boys Pfeiffer said – Muslim girls were just as likely to be violent as non-Muslim girls.
. . .
His researchers asked the teenagers a range of questions about their ideas of manliness, for example whether they thought a man was justified in hitting his wife if she had been unfaithful. They also asked about what media and computer game violence they were exposed to, as well as whether their friends were involved in crime or violence.

The results showed that Muslim boys from immigrant families were more than twice as likely to agree with macho statements than boys from Christian immigrant families. The rate was highest among those considered as very religious, Pfeiffer said. They were also more likely to be using violent computer games and have criminal friends.

Added to that, the more religious Muslim boys felt the least integrated into German society, with only 14.5 percent of the very religious Turkish boys (the largest group of Muslims in the study) saying they felt German, although 88.5 percent had been born here.[71]
June 2010

Netherlands

Almost 99% of all Moroccans are Muslim[72]

In municipalities with many Moroccan residents, an average of 38.7 percent of the Moroccan youngsters and men aged between 12 and 24 have landed up with the police one or more times. Girls are also forming a growing problem, public administration journal Binnenlands Bestuur reports.

Heading the list is Den Bosch. In this city, 47.7 percent of the 12-24 year old Moroccan youngsters and men have been crime suspects in the past five years. Next come Zeist with 47.3 percent, Gouda (46.3 percent), Veenendaal (44.9) and Amersfoort (44.6). The percentages in Maassluis, Oosterhout, Schiedam, Nijmegen, Utrecht, Ede, Leiden and Den Haag are also over 40. Crimes against property and crimes of violence predominate.

The figures come from a study by research institute Risbo of the Erasmus university in Rotterdam, commissioned by the home affairs ministry. As well as the 22 so-called Moroccan municipalities, Risbo also looked at the 22 municipalities where many Antilleans live. Nine towns are both Antillean and Moroccan municipalities.

Moroccan young men are more often suspects than their Antillean counterparts virtually everywhere. Also striking are the crime figures of the Moroccan girls. The generally prevailing picture of girls unlike the boys being good does not chime with the figures. In nine Moroccan municipalities, over 10 percent of girls aged between 12 and 24 have landed up with the police at some stage. If the Antillean municipalities are included, then this applies to 17 of the 35 municipalities.

Heading this list is Groningen, where one in four Moroccan girls have had contacts with the police. This is one and a half times as often as their Antillean counterparts and six times as often as Dutch girls.

In Amersfoort, Moroccan girls actually run up against the police more often than indigenous men. On average, 13 percent of indigenous men and boys aged 12-24 and 3 percent of indigenous females aged up to 24 are known to the police as suspects.[73]
November 2011

Sweden

From a survey of 7378 youths in Malmø, Sweden, an area heavily populated by Muslims

This week, more than 5 underage citizens of Malmø were forced to sex. 10 youths were robbed and 8 teenagers were so badly beaten they needed medical attention, but only 3 of 10 report violence to the police. Of those which have been misused for sex, not even 1 in 7 go to the police.[74]
December 2006

Miscellaneous

Worldwide

[Online searches] For “child porn,” Turkey is the 2nd country where this is most searched. Turkish is the #1 language used.
. . .

For “children sex,” Pakistan is at #1, Egypt #2 and Iran #3. The most common languages used to conduct the search in are Arabic and Turkish.

For “sexy children,” these results are probably the most disturbing. Pakistan, Syria, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, followed by Turkey at #9.

For “sexy child,” Pakistan is #1, followed by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey. Common languages are Persian, Arabic, and Turkish.[75]
November 2007

Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, Christian children from Tripuri tribes have been taken away from their villages and forcibly converted to Islam. Local Catholic sources, who asked their names be withheld, told AsiaNews that almost 300 children have been taken to madrassas (Islamic schools).

The story is the same. So-called intermediaries, who are also ethnic Tripuri, visit poverty-stricken communities where they convince families to send their children to a mission hostel, charging between 6,000 and 15,000 taka (US$ 500 to 1,200) for school and board. After pocketing the money, the intermediaries sell the children to Islamic schools elsewhere in the country.

The latest case involved 11 children, ten boys and a girl, from Thanchi, Ruma and Lama in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Their story has a happy ending though. After six months of threats and violence, the children were able to escape thanks Hotline Human Rights Trust, a Dhaka-based civil rights organisation that defends minorities run by a Catholic woman, Rosaline Costa.[76]
June 2012

Indonesia

In a study of two prison in Greater Jakarta, only 9 percent of juvenile offenders had access to lawyers, 74 percent shared their cells with adult criminals and 98 percent had reported torture, the Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation says.

The foundation’s study, which was released on Wednesday, drew from interviews with 100 juvenile offenders at Tangerang Penitentiary in Banten and Pondok Bambu Juvenile Penitentiary in Jakarta between January 2010 and January 2012.

“As many as 74 percent [of those surveyed] said they couldn’t go to school and their education had been halted during the legal process,” said Muhammad Isnur, an advocate for the foundation, known as LBH Jakarta.

Isnur said 98 percent of respondents reported enduring some form of torture while the police tried to solicit a confession or information from them.

Although Indonesia ratified a law on juvenile courts in 1997, the country lacks a justice system specifically designed for young delinquents and law enforcers often use a punitive approach for young offenders.[77]
April 2012

Pakistan

Juvenile justice: The number of juveniles detained in prisons increased from 1,225 in 2010 to 1,421 in 2011. Punjab has the highest number of juvenile offenders (833), Sindh 318, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 241 and Balochistan has 40 juvenile offenders.[78]
September 2012



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