Quantitative study that reviews an extensive number of sources to measure how governments and private actors infringe on religious beliefs and practices around the world.
This report presents a survey of teenage birth rates in the industrialized world. It attempts at least a partial analysis of why some countries have teenage birth rates that are ten or even fifteen times higher than others. Teenage births are today seen as a problem, because they are strongly associated with a range of disadvantages for the mother, for her child, for society in general, and for taxpayers in particular. As a contribution to the debate how teenage births can be reduced, the report draws on international experience and comparison to establish facts and trends, to identify some of the forces that offer young people both motive and means to delay childbearing, and to look at what might be learnt from those societies which have already succeeded in reducing the problem to unprecedentedly low levels.
Research on the sexual exploitation of children through trafficking. The primary focus is on socio-economic structural conditions in South Africa that provide the push and pull for the increase in child prostitution. Next to in-country trafficking, also cross-border trafficking is researched. Another focus is on adults (parents and gangs) who are responsible for facilitating the child's involvement in the exchange of sex for money or items. The report also provides a voice to children who have experienced such sexual exploitation. And it highlights international, continental and national legal measures taken in the areas of child prostitution, trafficking of children for this purpose, pornography, sex tourism and extra-territorial legislation.