Since 2001, Raíces runs a center for the care and integral rehabilitation for victims of commercial sexual exploitation (Centro de Acogida, ONG Raíces; Raíces Welcome Center). Its comprehensive programme includes workshops based on theater pedagogy and it currently has a Theater Company whose members are girls from the Center. Raíces has carried out a number of research projects such as an Exploratory Study on Trafficking of Children in Three Regions of Chile. Raíces has initiated several campaigns to fight trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of children and also carries out advocacy work for improved legislation and holds seminaries and conferences.
Contact: Loreto Caro
Phone: +56 2 6390393, +56 2 5242393
Address: Moneda 812 Of. 1014, Santiago, Chile
Email: Email:raices@tie.cldenissearaya@vtr.net
Website: http://www.ongraices.org/
Contact: Iván Zamora
Phone: (+56) 32-288-1777
Address: 11 Norte 967, Viña del Mar, Chile
Email: paicabi@paicabi.cl
Website: https://paicabi.cl/
Reportedly, in 2015, Chilean authorities prosecuted 91 individuals for facilitating the exploitation of children in prostitution.
Around 13,000 Chilean children work in the streets where they are exposed to higher risks of commercial sexual exploitation and abuses.
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The age of sexual consent is 14 years for both girls and boys. The national legislation does not provide for a close-in-age exemption.
Analysis of country legislation on age of sexual consent, 2024
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There is no specific information on extraterritoriality for SEC-related crimes or the applicability of the double criminality principle.
Extradition requires a minimum gravity of one year of imprisonment as well as the double criminality principle.
SECTT Legal Checklist Chile, 2020
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The national legislation establishes a mandatory background check requirement for every person hired for a job, position or profession in the private or public sector that involves direct and usual relationship with minors. It is unclear whether is rule also applies to volunteers. This law also prohibits convicted sex offenders to hold positions in both public and private settings involving or facilitating contact with children.
SECTT Legal Checklist Chile, 2020
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Chile has ratified the CRC, the OPSC, the OPIC, the Trafficking Protocol, the ILO Convention No. 182.
Chile has also ratified the OPIC and the Council of Europe’s Budapest Convention.
Chile has not ratified the UNWTO Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics nor the Council of Europe’s Lanzarote Convention.
SECTT Legal Checklist Chile, 2020
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Chile has implemented a national code for child protection in travel and tourism as a non-binding requirement for industry operators.
SECTT Legal Checklist Chile, 2020
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