A Pacific Regional Report

In September 2003, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the
End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT) International network and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) organized a meeting in Nadi, Fiji on combating poverty and commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), with a focus on helping countries to incorporate their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Stockholm Commitments from the first World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (1996) into national action
plans. A Pacific Statement of Commitment was also adopted at that workshop. Participating countries expressed their interest in receiving assistance in order to undertake situation analyses research so that they could know the true extent of the problem and its particular manifestations in the Pacific.