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FEATURED ARTICLES *** China The refugees forced to be sex slaves in
China Richard Spencer in [accessed 28 January 2011] The women who flee Egypt Organ trafficking on the rise in Egypt,
says new report Sarah Sheffer, Bikya Masr (Egyptian: resellable
clutter), www.masress.com/en/bikyamasr/50684 [accessed 13 June 2013] A shocking new
report by the Coalition for Organ Failure Solutions (COFS) Egypt indicates
that organ trafficking is on the rise in the country, as traffickers continue
to target Sudanese refugees and other asylum seekers in the nation. According to the report, entitled "Sudanese
Victims of Organ Trafficking in COFS estimates that
there are thousands of victims of organ trafficking in Pakistan Stop Child Slave Auctions in Pakistan Andrew Bushell,
" At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 10 September 2011] [scroll down to
BACKGROUND INFORMATION] As the war in They are then sold
again in bustling slave auctions to the highest bidder. The boys are used as
domestic or manual laborers; some are shipped to the Persian Gulf, where they
are used as camel jockeys. The price for the girls is euphemized as a dowry.
But they never marry; instead, the girls are used for sex - in a brothel, as
a concubine, or in a harem. UK Damning report on migrants delayed as
government fears poll backlash Hsiao-Hung Pai,
The Guardian, 3 February 2005 www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/feb/03/immigrationasylumandrefugees.immigrationandasylum [accessed 4 January 2011] The publication of
a ground-breaking report on forced labour and the
exploitation of migrant workers in It catalogues
coercive techniques used by private employers to force migrants to work for
low wages and in poor conditions, from physical and sexual violence to debt
bondage and blackmail. ***
ARCHIVES *** China How Can I be Sold Like This? [PDF] Donna M. Hughes, National Review, July 19,
2005 www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/trafficking_nk_refugees.pdf [accessed 29 April 2012] Women and children
are increasingly the majority of refugees crossing the river into Guinea UNICEF Press Centre, Conakry/Geneva, 4
November 2003 www.unicef.org/media/media_15421.html [accessed 8 February 2011] UNICEF today said that
reports from border monitors and NGOs reveal that Indonesia Asia Pacific, ABC Radio At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] There are claims
that the Indonesian military and police have been extorting bribes from
Acehnese asylum seekers and selling them into slavery. The claims have been
backed by refugee advocates working closely with the UN refugee agency in
Malaysia, where thousands of Acehnese are facing expulsion under a government
crackdown on illegal workers. Indonesia Tsunami orphans available for the right
price Mathias Hariyadi,
AsiaNews.it, 01/02/2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] Volunteers from the
Muslim-based Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS) claim that "human
lives" are being bought and sold in some of the refugee camps in North
Sumatra's provincial capital of Malaysia Take trafficking of refugees seriously Alice Nah, The Malaysian Insider, January
22, 2009 www.themalaysianinsider.com/opinion/article/Take-trafficking-of-refugees-seriously/ [accessed 20 February 2011] www.malaysianbar.org.my/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=20869 [accessed 22 September 2016] Last week, the US
Senate Foreign Relations Committee drew attention to the trafficking of
migrants and refugees at the Malaysia-Thai border. They highlighted the
shocking fact that Malaysian law enforcement officials are complicit in the
“sale” of people to human smugglers/traffickers. WHAT HAPPENS AT THE
BORDER?
- Deportees who have returned to Malaysia describe that they are brought from
immigration detention depots to locations at the border under guard and in
handcuffs in vehicles. When they disembark, they are forced to walk into
areas guarded by human smugglers/traffickers. They have no way of escape.
They are caught and kept under armed surveillance in confined, crowded and
isolated locations, often deep in the jungle. Some women are raped
repeatedly. They are given handphones and instructed to contact family/friends to
raise money for their release; they are beaten and threatened into
submission. Prices vary between RM1,400 and RM2,500.
Some who have dared to question why prices are so high have been told that
this covers the amount paid to immigration officials. They are told to
deposit the money into specific bank accounts. Once the money is deposited,
they are brought in cars to designated locations and released. It costs more
to be sent back to Malaysia; some are released in Thailand. Those who are unable to pay are sold — men
to work on fishing boats and plantations, and women to brothels or “private
owners” who keep them in servitude for sex and/or forced labour.
Those who have been forced to work on boats tell harrowing tales of having
seen fellow workers shot and thrown overboard if they protest. Rwanda VI. Children Without Parents: Victims of
Abuse and Exploitation Human Rights Watch Report, Vol. 15, No. 5
(A), www.hrw.org/reports/2003/rwanda0403/rwanda0403-06.htm [accessed 20 December 2010] Perhaps the most
devastating consequence of the genocide and war in Sierra
Leone Sierra Leone - Human Rights Aisling www.bellaonline.com/articles/art24082.asp [accessed 22 December 2010] Sierra Leone is
probably is the poorest country of the world due to the ravaging civil war
and the terrorist activities of the Revolutionary United Front, or RUF. For
both men and women, living under these conditions is producing hundreds of
thousands refugees and internal displacement. Generally speaking, it is
difficult to differentiate between women's rights and human rights. Women and
children are known to be the principal war victims. women
and Children are often submitted to rape, sexual slavery, forced labour, torture, mutilation and forced recrutiation by the RUF. The RUF is notoriously known to
use terror against the civil population, especially Women and Children. Violations
such as these are one of their principal war tactics. The biggest UN
peacekeeping force in history is present, so now exists
some hope of peace in the country. South
Africa Seduction, Sale
& Slavery: Trafficking In Women & Children For Sexual Exploitation In
Southern Africa [PDF] Jonathan Martens, Maciej ‘Mac’ Pieczkowski, Bernadette van Vuuren-Smyth, International Organization for
Migration (IOM) Regional Office for Southern Africa, www.unicef.org.mz/cpd/references/40-TraffickingReport3rdEd.pdf [accessed 25 April 2012] [accessed 28 September 2016] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - The major
findings may be summarized as follows: Refugees are both
victims and perpetrators of trafficking to Sweden Chapter 2: Hambaar:
The Smugglers' Network U.N. Integrated Regional Information
Networks IRIN, Web Special on Separated Somali Children, 1 May 2006 www.irinnews.org/indepthmain.aspx?InDepthId=44&ReportId=71597 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 March 2015] International
criminal networks - There is a paucity of hard information on child smuggling
and trafficking. An official of Interpol told IRIN that that while there were
major investigations carried out on prostitution rings, pornography and
international criminal cartels, relatively little was known about the international
child trafficking networks. In 2001, 87
unaccompanied minors in Sweden went 'missing' - meaning they arrived, were
registered or accommodated by the authorities, but then disappeared to an
unknown destination. There is speculation that international organized crime
accounts for a small number of these 'missing' children. All professionals
working with unaccompanied children agree that the children have become more
vulnerable as communication technology becomes more sophisticated. According
to staff in the Carlslund refugee centre in Stockholm, almost every child gets a mobile
phone three or four days after arrival - "we don't know from where, or how". There is a debate in Sweden on how
far the refugee child's liberties should be restricted in the interest of
safety. Syria Iraqi children forced into prostitution in
Syria Business Travellers
against Human Trafficking, Global news on human trafficking, 6/24/2005 businesstravellers-org.web26.winsvr.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/987/Default.aspx [accessed 28 December 2010] [scroll down] There is growing
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