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These children are first exploited through prostitution at the average age of 12. [20] As the age of consent in Ecuador is 14 and teenagers can start work at 15, some girls start working as prostitutes in the unregulated sector at 15, or even earlier with false documents. Law enforcement on underage girls working in brothels is lax. [13]
Ecuador ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol in September 2002. [1]Victims of human trafficking in Ecuador are generally women and children trafficked within the country from border and central highland areas to urban centers for commercial sexual exploitation, as well as for involuntary domestic servitude, forced begging, and forced labor in mines and other hazardous work.
Prostitution laws vary by state and territory, however it is illegal except for some rural counties of Nevada. Strip clubs are legal in most areas, including fully nude strip clubs. Many massage shops offer "happy endings", which is an illegal form of prostitution.
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Ecuador, once seen as an island of peace in the region, has been convulsed by violence in recent years as powerful drug trafficking organizations established operations throughout the country.
Duran and the nearby city of Guayaquil are at the epicenter of Ecuador's violence, due in part to their proximity to the port increasingly used to send cocaine to Europe and the United States from ...
The prostitution of minors (all ages under 18) is punished by law and is prosecuted by the state [citation needed] as a crime against family care, Art. 244–247, as well as Art. 218-B, 227, 230, 231 and 231-A. [31] The law makes no distinctions between sexual orientation cases.
In Germany prostitution is legal, as are brothels. In Finland, Norway and Switzerland the right to sell sex is restricted based on citizenship. Aliens caught selling sex in Finland or Norway may be deported and of foreign citizens only EU citizens can get a Swiss prostitution license. The enforcement of the anti-prostitution laws varies by country.