Each year, untold numbers of citizens from Canada and other developed nations travel to foreign countries and proliferate one of the world's most pressing human rights concerns, that of child sexual abuse and exploitation. Developing nations are continually having to cope with burgeoning prostitution industries that generate vast revenues from tourists but which intentionally force the most vulnerable of children into the local sex trade. While the term 'child sex tourism' often conjures up images of children enslaved in brothels, many children are abused and exploited by foreigners in non-commercial contexts. In either situation, the psychological and emotional harm inflicted on the child victim is often irreparable.
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