Child Sexual Abuse, Exploitation and Trafficking in the Arab Region

Bernard Gerbaka is the president of the Lebanese Institute for Child Rights and former president of the Lebanese Union for Child Protection and Vice-President of the University Child and Youth Observatory in Lebanon. He published on child health, child injuries, child safety, child abuse, violence against children and child protection. Within the child protection network in the Arab region, Bernard GERBAKA founded, with colleagues form the Arab region, the Arab professional network for the prevention of CAN (2004), the Arab professional society for the prevention of violence against children (2012) and was elected within the board of the International society for the prevention of CAN (2008-2014 and 2014-2020) where he chaired the TCER (Training, consultation and external relations, and was elected President of ISPCAN for the period 2016-2018, www.ISPCAN.org. Bernard GERBAKA also worked in the data collection working group (WGDCCM, ISPCAN) and the RAP committee of Child helpline international. 

Sami Richa is Assosiate professor in the department of psychiatry at Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon. His international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study.  His research interests reflect in his wide range of publications in various national and international journals. 

Roland Tomb is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. Professor of medicine, and practitioner at the Hôtel-Dieu de France University Hospital, he is the author of several hundred medical publications.  He is also Head of the Department of Dermatology and STI  at both Saint Joseph University and Hotel-Dieu Hospital. Roland Tomb holds  the Chair of Bioethics and he is vice-president of the International Bioethics Committee at UNESCO in Paris. He pursued studies in theology, ancient Semitic languages and holds a PhD in philosophy and ethics.

Chapter 1. Objectives of the present book.- Chapter 2. Introduction.- Chapter 3. The Rationale.- Chapter 4. Background of the book.- Chapter 5. The Settings within Lebanon.- Chapter 5. The Settings within Lebanon.- Chapter 7. The value of research.- Chapter 8. The prohibition of violence in the laws of Arab Countries.- Chapter 9. The definitions and their consequences.- Chapter 10. The impacts and Consequences of CSA.- Chapter 11. Commercial sexual exploitation of children and Trafficking.- Chapter 12. Female genital mutilation / female cutting/ female circumcision.- Chapter 13. Honor killings and crimes; familial and tribal homicide.- Chapter 14. Early and forced marriage.- Chapter 15. Sexual Violence.- Chapter 16. Violence in armed conflicts and Natural disasters: A link to CSAET.- Chapter 17. Principles and Practices in Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse.