Stringent laws to curb child prostitution

Here’s a sobering thought: There are more children being sexually abused in Kenya today than there are people displaced in the 2008 post-election violence still living in transit camps awaiting resettlement. But you would not know it from a comparison of the resources applied to solving both problems.

The role of sex work in driving tourism numbers is an acknowledged dirty secret, as is the fact that most of the child victims of sex tourists are children of sex workers. Yet due to the importance of the former to the economic bottom line, little attention is being paid to the latter.