| Description: | | The Agenda for action against commercial sexual exploitation of children provides a detailed framework and categories of actions to be taken by governments in partnership and other relevant actors for combating commercial sexual crimes against children. Broadly, these actions are focused on : coordination and cooperation; prevention; recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration; child participation. The Agenda for action is thus the formal and guiding structure used by governments that have adopted it and committed to work against CSEC. In Taiwan, "enjo kosai" (a Japan term for compensated "companionship" through dating websites, which generally involves the provision of sex for remuneration) has been practised by both girls and boys who become victims out of curiosity or to gain quick income. Otherwise, Taiwan is a destination country for trafficking in women and children for sexual purposes, lured to Taiwan through false promises of lucrative employment or fraudulent marriages. The National Plan Action (NPA) to prevent sexual exploitation of children in Taiwan was completed in 2000, as a joint effort by Taiwanese NGOs, child welfare, health and law enforcement officials and various government departments. The Plan's development was led by ECPAT Taiwan, by appointment of the Ministry of the Interior. The law reform project, currently being examined by the Child Welfare Bureau, proposing that only those children, whose families have proved unable to care for them properly, be referred to shelters, should be approved. |
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