Media
Report
Presentation
Team
Nelly Ingraham
Elizabeth Miskimmon
Renita Moniaga
David Sadoo
Organization
ECPAT-USA (End Child Prostitution and Trafficking)
About
Students worked with ECPAT, “a global network of organizations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution and trafficking of children for sexual purposes” to design a strategy for the expansion of the Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism in the United States. Relevant work and documents can be found in the link above.
ECPAT Sweden developed a Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism in 1998. It has been signed by more than 600 companies around the world. In 2004, the Code of Conduct was launched in the United States. Despite best efforts, only five U.S. companies have signed the Code of Conduct. These five companies run the gamut in size from one of the largest travel and tourism companies in the world, Carlson Companies, to a small tour operator that brings only 60 people to Brazil every year. With funding from the State Department we have been able to expand the Code of Conduct rapidly in the Cancun and Riviera Maya sections of Mexico and in Belize. We have a great deal of experience in promoting the Code of Conduct in other countries. The international Code of Conduct secretariat is housed at ECPAT USA. We have very good contacts with many people in the travel industry. But with a small staff we have not had the personnel to design a workable strategy for reaching out to and promoting the Code of Conduct with companies in the United States.
