THE GAMBIA REPORT - August, 2022

From top to bottom: there is a phenomenon of European women travelling to The Gambia and sexually exploiting boys; instances of sexual exploitation and abuse have been reported in unregulated and informal Quranic schools in The Gambia; sexual exploitation of boys is known to occur in the context of travel and tourism. [...] Article to explore the sexual exploitation of boys, 34 of the CRC requires State parties to protect activating our worldwide network of member children 1 Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on VAC. [...] 182)31 was ratified by trafficking of children for sexual exploitation The Gambia in 2001, and the Protocol to Prevent, as well as other forms of sexual abuse and Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, exploitation, the Optional Protocol to the Especially Women and Children supplementing Convention on the Rights of the Child on the the UN convention against Transnational sale of children, chi. [...] The of which Article to invoke at the prosecution stage anonymity of the Internet is used by offenders to will lie with the magistrate overseeing the trial disseminate child sexual abuse materials.87 With proceedings.83 this in mind, it is of the upmost important for The Gambia to have a robust legal framework in place Additionally, Article 11 of the Tourism Offences to protect children from all f. [...] to “procure, use or offer a child for the production of pornography, or for pornographic In 2018, The Gambia began consultations with performances”.90 Whilst this effectively the Council of Europe with the aim of drafting a criminalises the use of children in pornographic modern legislation in line with the international performances, the law is silent on those who standard of the Budapest Convent.