France Weighs Accords with Brazil, Mexico to Stave off Sexual Tourism

A recent report put together by organizations of human rights activists, physicians, jurists and tourism experts –at the request of Paris’s Ministries of Tourism and Family- hints at the signing of agreements between France and such nations as Mexico, Brazil and the Dominican Republic in an effort to put up a fight against sexual tourism and child exploitation.

The document was revealed Thursday by the French government and proposes the European country to reach bilateral accords with nations that are hit hard by sexual tourism, like Morocco, Egypt, Madagascar, Senegal, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Rumania and Albany.

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), some three million kids in poor countries fall prey of sexual predators disguised as tourists. In the same breath, more than a million minors are recruited every year to join prostitution networks worldwide. UNICEF specialists believe that as many as 400,000 children are prostituted in India, some 300,000 in South East Asia, 150,000 in Brazil, a quarter of a million in the United States and 175,000 in Europe, especially in Eastern Europe.