Preface

Joaquin F. Otero, Deputy Under Secretary for International Labor Affairs

Foreward

Karen Nussbaum, Director, Women's Bureau

Keynote Address

Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II

Part I: Overviews on Child Prostitution

1. International Perspectives and Child Prostitution in Asia, Vitit Muntarbhorn
2. Child Prostitution in Latin America, Dorianne Beyer
3. Child Prostitution in the United States, Robert Flores

Part II: Responses to Child Prostitution

1. The role of the International Labor Organziation, Panudda Boonpala
2. A Non-Governmental Organization Perspective, Ladda Saikaew
3. The Role of the Media, Gilberto Dimenstein
4. The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the World Congress on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Stockholm 1996, Bertil Lindblad

Afterword

Andrew James Samet, Associate Deputy Under Secretary for International Labor Affairs

Appendices

A. The International Law Enforcement Response, International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)

B. About the Symposium Speakers

C. ILO Convention 29 on Forced Labor

D. UN Convention on the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others

E. UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Agaist Women, Article 6

F. UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

G. 1994 Child Sex Abuse Prevention Act