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Guatemala Legal Program Advisor for Casa Alianza, Guatemela, Murdered Intercountry Adoption ICA, 6 September 2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 5 September 2011] [scroll down to 6 September 2005] The wave of violence
and impunity that plagues Guatemala has taken yet another victim. Last
Friday, September 2, at approximately 9:30 in the morning, an unidentified
man shot and killed the fifty six-year old lawyer Harold Rafael Perez
Gallardo, who had been serving as the Adviser to the Legal Program of Casa Alianza Guatemala for the past six years. Perez Gallardo was advising Casa Alianza on several pending cases regarding irregular
adoptions, murders, sexual exploitations and trafficking, and other instances
of human rights violations against children. Iran Political Executions, Child Prostitution,
and Forced Marriage at the Age of 9 : Ms Zadeh talks on the lack
of human rights in Iran and the urgency to put geopolitics to one side News & Civil Society Perspectives from
the Commission on Human Rights Sixty-first session 14 March - 22 April 2005
-- Contributors: Sebastian Zielinski (CONGO), April 11, 2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] At present at least thirty juveniles are on death row in Tehran and Rajai-Shahr for offences they were alleged to have
committed under the age of eighteen Child prostitution has risen 635 percent in recent years. Dozens of
Iranian girls are brought to Karachi, Pakistan, to be sold as sex slaves
every day. Reports in Tehran newspapers indicate that senior government figures
have been involved in human trafficking. There are at least 300,000 runaway girls in Iran. By law, the father has the right to force a girl into marriage at the
age of nine Malaysia Migrant Worker’s Death Exposes Slave-like
Conditions Anil Netto, Inter
Press Service News Agency IPS, Kuala Lumpur, 8 May 2007 ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37646 [accessed 8 September 2011] www.ipsnews.net/2007/05/labour-malaysia-migrant-workers-death-exposes-slave-like-conditions/ [accessed 3 September 2016] Ganesh was
reportedly subjected to daily beatings, deprived of food and sufficient rest,
and chained and locked in a dark room. He was eventually dumped in a wooded
area, but was found by villagers who sent him to hospital. He succumbed to
his injuries on Apr. 27. Pictures of his gaunt face, the horrendous bruises
on his back and his protruding rib cage shocked Malaysians. In hospital, he
was little more than a bag of blistered skin and bones. In George Town,
Penang, a visibly shaken young Indonesian domestic maid, Yati
(not her real name), recently met IPS after running away from her employers
the previous night. ''I was knocked on the head for the slightest mistake I
made,'' she said, tearfully. ''I just could not take it any
more; so, when I had the chance, I ran out of the house without
thinking of taking any of my belongings.'' Without any money, her several
months' wages still unpaid, no change of clothing, and most crucially,
without her passport, which was probably held by her employer or the local
recruitment agent, Yati was helpless. Nepal Call for Global Action to halt Nepalese
women and girls trafficking Surya B. Prasai,
The American Chronicle, February 10, 2008 womenfreedomforum.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=456&Itemid=80 [accessed 22 August 2014] [accessed 13 June 2017] The other alarming fact
of course is that Nepal has a unique cultural system known as "Deukis," whereby by rich zamindars
(feudalistic agricultural families) having no children through a legally
married wife, procure these young girls from poor rural Nepalese families and
after initiating them into the household through the temple rites are taken
as mistresses cum slave bonded laborers to produce offspring. Later on, as
the girl gets to be over 30 years and grows older, she is forced into
prostitution. There is no respite to what the poor Nepalese girl has to
suffer on in life once initiated into this system. In 2007 according to a UN
report, there werel nearly 30,000 deukis in Nepal compared to 1992, when there were 17,000 deuki girls according to Radhika Coomaraswamy
in the UN Special Report on Violence against Women. Norway Human trafficking case gets underway Kjetil Kolsrud
& Nina Berglund, Aftenposten, November 9, 2004 Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 28 June 2013] The two women,
according to prosecutors, were then moved to Stockholm before being sent on
to Norway. They arrived in Oslo on December 1, 2001 and were taken to a flat
in the fashionable neighborhood of Homansbyen, just
behind the Royal Palace. Once there,
they were repeatedly raped by two men assigned to guard them. Police claim
they also were injected with heroin, to make them more submissive. STRIPPED AND PEDDLED
FOR SALE
- A few days later, a Norwegian man showed up at the flat with a camera. Both
women were stripped and photographed, and then advertised for sale in a local
newspaper handed out for free. Customers started calling, and the men
withheld all the money that customers paid to beat, rape and abuse the women.
The abuse included being burned with cigarettes. Romania Freedom at Midnight: Human Trafficking in
Romania Paul Cristian Radu,
Central Romanian Investigative Journalism CRJI, January 10, 2003 www.crji.org/articles.php?id=4023 [accessed 2 September 2012] www.crji.org/?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=5030 [accessed 13 February 2018] UNDERCOVER
INVESTIGATION REVEALS HOW YOUNG GIRLS ARE BEING BEATEN, ABUSED AND SOLD FOR A
FEW HUNDRED OF DOLLARS IN BUCHAREST’S BACKSTREETS. "Can I be sure
you're not giving me back to them?" Diana whispered from the backseat of
the car. "I'm scared." The
trembling figure, huddled in a blanket against a cold Bucharest night, had
only minutes earlier been just one of the legion of girls for sale in
Romania's human-trafficking market.
Driven by fear, her words tumbled out, "They hit me. He stabbed
me with a knife. You want to see the wound? I'm hungry. Do you like me? You
want sex with me? Can I have your kids
afterwards? "I'll be a good wife.
Do you want to marry me? You know, they starved me. Do you want me to take
off my blouse? I need to eat
something! Promise I will never be starved ever again? I want to smoke, too. And don't forget to
buy me chocolate." Diana - her
name has been changed for the purposes of this story - cost us 400 US
dollars. As part of a joint
investigation by IWPR and the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism,
RCIJ, we had just purchased her from a trafficker. A few days before, she had
passed New Years Eve chained and freezing in a dog
cage. Saudi
Arabia Guest Worker May Lose Digits, Toes After
Being Tied Up in Bathroom for a Month Hassan Adawi,
Arab News, Jeddah, 23 March 2005 archive.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=60876&d=23&m=3&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom [accessed 21 December 2010] [accessed 24 June 2013] A 25 year-old
Indonesian guest worker will have several of her fingers, toes and part of
her right foot amputated because of gangrene after being tied up for a month
in a bathroom by her Saudi sponsor. The Indonesian Embassy noted that
2,000 housemaids have been repatriated to Indonesia so far this year, with
many alleging maltreatment, nonpayment of wages or physical abuse. Slovenia A modern slave's brutal odyssey BBC News, 3 November 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3979725.stm [accessed 22 December 2010] EX-TRAFFICKER'S
STORY -
One former trafficker, now working with the authorities and living at a
secret address, told Slavery Today how his former gang would operate. "Most of the time we would use
professional recruiters, but at times we would kidnap women and children
ourselves," he said. "The
children were taken to be sold in Italy, and the better-looking women were
kept as prisoners and made to work as prostitutes. "I have heard
that sick children are sold and made into beggars. "The healthy ones are kept and trained
to work for the Mafia, to deal drugs, to murder - whatever they are capable
of. Some trafficked people have their
organs removed. "I've also heard
that some children were sold for organs. This also happened with men and
women, depending on the demand." And he admitted to
often using force to capture people.
"If they didn't want to be separated from their families, we'd
hit them until they did what we wanted," he said. "Generally threats are made that
another family member will be murdered if orders are not obeyed." Working in Eastern Europe, the gang would
drive trafficked men into Slovenia,
from where they would be transported, to look for work on places such as
building sites. Suriname Suriname police detain alleged human
trafficker Ivan Cairo, Caribbean Net News, PARAMARIBO,
Suriname, 01 APRIL 2008 traffickingproject.blogspot.com/2008/04/suriname-police-detain-alleged-human.html [accessed 26 December 2010] Preliminary
investigations have revealed, said prosecutor Garcia Paragsingh,
that the four Vietnamese nationals working on the boat, were forced to hard labour on the vessel without payment, proper medical care
and food. For over a two year period, two of ill-treated crew members did not
receive payment for their work, while the remaining two fishermen told police
that for over one year they did not receive salaries and were not
allowed to leave the boat. The captain, a
Korean national, allegedly refused to allow them to see a doctor when
they became sick, while they were forced to work long hours under very
poor conditions even when they were physically unable to do so. According to
police sources, the worker who committed suicide apparently got sick and
asked to be taken to shore to seek medical treatment. After his requests were
rejected by the captain, the man hung himself. Thailand The misery of male slavery - Trafficking of
Men in Thailand humantrafficking.org, News & Updates,
17 May 2007 -- Adapted from: "The misery of male slavery." The
Nation. 14 May 2007 www.humantrafficking.org/updates/636 [accessed 29 December 2010] www.pressreader.com/thailand/the-nation/20070514/281526516623105 [accessed 19 February 2018] The fight against
human trafficking has for more than a decade tried to protect women and
children, often forgetting that men, too, are victims of "new
slavery". The commission
reports that between July 17 and July 19 of 2003, six fishing trawlers with
about 100 crew sailed from Tha Chalom
in Samut Sakhon province
to fish Indonesian territorial waters. Most of the crew were migrant workers
and four were younger than 16. None were allowed home leave for three years.
The trawlers returned to Thailand in July last year. Thirty-eight never
returned, dying on the job. Two were buried on one of Indonesia's myriad
islands and the rest unceremoniously dumped at sea. One more crewmember died
shortly upon his return. Others returned home seriously ill -
emaciated, emotionally disturbed and unable to see, hear or walk
properly. A Samut Sakhon
Hospital medical report diagnosed the men with serious vitamin deficiencies.
They had suffered months without proper food or water, eating only
fish. None have been paid. Yet, they are not considered by law to be
victims of human trafficking. Uganda Police issues measures to fight child
sacrifice Josephine Maseruka,
The New Vision, 6 January 2009 www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/667107 [accessed 2 January 2011] www.gideonfoundation.com/details.php?a=Mzg= [accessed 10 February 2016] www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1252669/police-issues-measures-fight-child-sacrifice [accessed 20 June 2017] A counter-trafficking
unit has been created to curb child sacrifice and human trafficking, he said.
Kayihura’s briefing came amid
reports of increasing cases of ritual murders, with children as the main
victims. Kayihura noted that of the
18 suspected ritual murder cases reported to the Police last year, 15 had
been conclusively investigated and the suspects committed to the High
Court. He observed that most ritual
murders were committed by either parents or relatives of the victims, adding
that in the 15 cases, the suspects confessed. The state minister for internal affairs, Matia Kasaija, regretted that
there was a 600% increase in ritual murder, from the three reported in 2007,
up to 18 cases last year. Kasaija noted that the problem was compounded by the
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