The World - News from Aug. 2, 1989

One million children around the world are forced into the sex market every year, according to a Norwegian government report submitted to a U.N. working group on slavery. It said that in Paris alone, 5,000 boys and 3,000 girls under the age of 18 are working as prostitutes. Citing the report at a news conference in Geneva, Osborn Eide, chairman of the U.N. group, said governments need to do more to protect children from such abuses. Authorities have been unwilling to clamp down on abuses such as sex tours from rich areas like Japan, Western Europe or the United States for financial reasons, Eide said.