The Globalization of Female Child Prostitution: A Call For Reintegration and Recovery Measures Via Article 39 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Abstract

Female child prostitution is an epidemic that touches every corner of the world.'The female child 2 usually finds her way into prostitution by being bought, kidnapped, tricked, sold by her parents, or traded.'Figures estimate that the child prostitution business employs approximately I million children in Asia, 4 1.5 to 2 million children in India, 5 100,000 children in the United States, 6 and 500,000 children in Latin America."Statistics also estimate that in one year's time a child prostitute will service over 2,000 men.'The globalization of economics is at the forefront of the prostitution problem.Economics perpetuates female child prostitution because it is