COUNTRY OVERVIEW - Ending Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: FINLAND

The migration population has also been on the rise in Finland, with the rate of foreign- FINLAND 5 CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION IN FINLAND 2.1 SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN Article 18 of the Lanzarote Convention defines sexual abuse as a) the engagement in sexual activities with a child who, according to the relevant provisions of national law, has not reached the legal age for sexual activities. [...] Article 4 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings defines ‘trafficking in human beings’ as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receivin. [...] For its part, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution, and child pornography deals with the ‘sale of children’, defined as “any act or transaction whereby a child is transferred by any person or group of persons to another for remuneration or any other consideration”.49,50 The sexual exploitation of children in travel and touri. [...] The factors that will be considered include age and maturity of the Sexual exploitation of children child and the offender, the relationship of the in prostitution, through sale and parties and other circumstances of the act.193 trafficking and in the context of travel and tourism Provisions on rape in general – not specifically of children - were also revamped Although the criminal legislation of. [...] In 2021, university the victim is in need of special protection, research, as part of the implementation or if otherwise required by the nature of the of the Government Plan for Analysis, offence or the personal circumstances of Assessment and Research, analysed the the victim, and if the victim consents, their processing times of sexual offences targeting contact information will be passed to the.