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osario Baluyot was 11 years old when she died on 20 May 1987. She was a street child in Olongapo, the Philippines, and was a victim of sex tourism involving the commerciai sexual exploitation of children. Her death was the result of such exploitation by an Austrian physician. Majgull Axelsson has reconstructed Rosario Baluyot's short life which she vividly and with great insight describes in the form of a documentary novel. "I have never been so moved, shocked and disturbed by a book before. I did not want to read on, but felt bound to continue.

Minou Fuglesang is a social anthropologist (Ph.D.) working at the Unit of International Health Care Research (IHCAR) at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She has done substantial research on adolescents and sexual and reproductive health in east Africa Fuglesang is also the author of "Veils and Videos - female youth culture on the Kenyan coast" (Stockholm: Alrnqvist and Wiksell International, 1994).

World Congress III against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents: Lead Organising Partners: ECPAT, UNICEF,  BRASIL, NGO GROUP

“It is important that we not treat this issue as a matter of poverty. It is important that we do not address the issue of sexual exploitation as an issue only involving the poor. It is important that people know that often sexual exploitation does not happen for a plate of food, but because of the animalistic appetite of those who practice it.”  President Lula da Silva of Brazil.