Gangs operating in the Colombian city of Medellin manage an underage human trafficking syndicate where the virginity of a child…
A report in the British publication Daily Mail interviewed children who were prostituting themselves along the BR-116 highway in Brazil.…
The Justice Minister of Cuba reported that the government convicted 224 people for pimping activities in 2012. Seven individuals were…
A charity in Thailand states that children from Cambodia are sold to human traffickers for $300 and end up working…
According to the NGO End Child Prostitution in Kenya, in 2009 there were up to 50,000 children involved in the sex trade. Most of the customers of child prostitution were Kenyan nationals, as well as tourists from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
In 2012, child advocates reported that men were paying around $25 (2,000 Kenyan Shillings) to have sex with girls as young as 12.
Up to 150 children enter the prostitution industry in Malaysia each year, according to children rights advocates. Customers pay up to $100 to have sex with a child in the country, double the price for sex with an adult prostitute.
Despite its reputation as a haven for international pedophiles, between 49 to 70 percent of prostitution customers in Cambodia are local residents. The study also found that 43 out of 44 former child prostitutes reported that their regular clients were Cambodian men.
A human trafficking report by UNESCO stated that there are an estimated 30,000 child prostitutes in South Africa.
The child prostitution industry in Brazil is filled with 250,000 children, according to UNICEF.
Child prostitution in Thailand led to 2,888 people being charged for having sex with minors who were under the age of 15.