(FBC): The house of people’s representatives has ratified a protocol to stiffen child sale, sex trafficking and sexual exploitation law.
It was said preparing the protocol has been found necessary to stop the sex tourism which specially makes children susceptible to very dangers is threateningly expanding in the country.
The protocol is believed would give an immediate solution to control child sex trade and ever expanding pornographic videos by ending poverty, lack of advancement, economic inequality, old houses, migration from rural to urban, unsafe sexual involvement of youth, harmful traditional practices and child trafficking that have prominent role in it.
Exploiting children sexually: selling, receiving, buying and supplying children, using children to make pornographic movies: distributing, importing, exporting, supplying and selling are crimes, according to the protocol.
The house affirmed that the endorsement and following up the implementation of the protocol will help children of the country grow up with good personality and ethics, even if the protocol is similar to the previous law and there is nothing so special that the country is required to carry out.
In addition, the house on his plenary session has endorsed another international law on child right related to participation in war.
It was remarked that there are activities to be carried out by the government with regard to the FDRE constitution that prohibits children from participating in conflicts and warfare.
Children do not get recruited in defense army and police bodies as soldiers and the fact that proper age to join either the army or the police is specified makes the new protocol so important.
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