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Mombasa, Kenya; Stung by reports of sex exploitation involving underage girls in hotels on the Kenyan coast, human rights groups have commissioned studies to investigate the matter and stem an escalation.
A study conducted by Coast Women In Development (CWID) in 2010 shows that internationally-listed paedophiles were leaving child sex tourism centres in Asia because of tough new laws and were headed for African countries where laws and enforcement is lax. Besides laxity in the enforcement of laws, Kenya is yet to ratify international protocols on Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking, and Children Involved in Child Conflict and Child Sex, according to this analysis.
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