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Human Trafficking Becomes Attractive Nation.ittefaq.com, 11 February 2005 –
Source: nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/printer_16178.shtml Click [here]
to connect to the article. Its URL is
not displayed because of its length [accessed 21 January 2011] They
said tens of thousands of women and children are trafficked out each year
from Scale of African slavery revealed BBC News, 23 April, 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3652021.stm [accessed 23 January 2011] COMPLICITY - Much
of this trade in children often has the tacit collaboration of the victims'
own families where it is seen not so much as criminal activity but as a way for
a large family to boost its poor income. The story of Joseph
in African "slave ship" highlights
spread of child slavery Trevor Johnson, World Socialist Web Site,
19 April 2001 www.wsws.org/articles/2001/apr2001/slav-a19.shtml [accessed 23 January 2011] Although there may
be a superficial resemblance to the African slave trade of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries, the driving forces behind this modern form of
slavery are entirely new. The roots of today's slave trade are to be
discovered in the way that capitalism has developed in The conditions of
extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa have attracted transnational
corporations (TNCs), which can profit from Trafficked in China, originally from
Bolivia Oliver Poole. “Young Mother’s Dream of Fast
Fortune Ended in Nightmare” South China Morning Post (11 March 1997) jammedtruestories.blogspot.com/2008/09/trafficked-in-china-originally-from.html [accessed 23 January 2011] TESTIMONY OF
PATRICIA - From her home in an impoverished village in rural Child trafficking takes new forms in
Southeast Asia Rafael D. Frankel, Special to The Christian
Science Monitor, Battambang www.csmonitor.com/2001/1212/p7s2-woap.html [accessed 26 January 2011] When he was 12, his
parents in rural "The
trafficker told my parents he would send them $55 a month," the boy
says. "But I would earn $18 or $25 every day or night I begged." Over the next three
years, the boy escaped twice and made his way home. But the trafficker found
him, repurchased him, and took him back to Egypt ‘Summer Brides’: Under-age daughters sold
as ‘sex-slaves’ in Egypt, report claims Al Arabiya News, 15 July 2012 english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/07/15/226546.html [accessed 16 July 2012] www.ipsnews.net/2013/08/underage-girls-are-egypts-summer-rentals/ [accessed 2 February 2019] Egypt has laws in place
that aim to combat human trafficking which prevent foreigners from marrying
an Egyptian woman if there is more than ten years age difference, but
marriage brokers have found a way around that by forging birth certificates
to make the girls appear older and the men younger. These contracts also eliminate any
potential problems with hotels and land lords who may demand to see proof of
marriage before allowing a couple to stay in a room together, since
pre-marital sex is prohibited in Islam. In some cases the
men take the Egyptian girls back to their home country to work as maids for
their first wives. But even the girls who stay in Egypt do not fare much
better since they often become ostracized by society and find it difficult to
re-marry in the traditional way, particularly if the “summer marriage”
resulted in a child. Many abandon the
child out of shame, either to orphanages or leaving them to join the hundreds
of thousands of street children that already exist in Egypt. Dr. Hoda Badran, who chairs the NGO Alliance for Arab Women,
explained to the Sunday Independent that poverty is the main factor behind
this phenomenon. Gem industry in need of regulation UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, Ilakaka, 17 September 2003 www.irinnews.org/report/46200/madagascar-feature-gem-industry-in-need-of-regulation [accessed 19 February 2011] One of the most
disturbing aspects of The report noted
that children are often exposed to very serious dangers and can, for example,
die of suffocation if the mine caves in.
Dominique Rakotomanga, who works for IPEC in
the capital, NGOs urge The At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8 September 2011] TOP EXPORT:
PROSTITUTES - In Moldova, the situation is much worse. Although formerly one
of the most wealthy parts of the former 40% of Why Sanjaya Dhakal,
Kathmandu, OneWorld South us.oneworld.net/places/nepal/-/article/why-nepals-freed-laborers-want-return-slavery [accessed 9 December 2010] sajha.com/archives/openthread.cfm?threadid=13840 [accessed 13 August 2020] "Between 15
and 20 percent of the families declared free have returned to the same old
practice of slavery," says Dilli Chaudhary,
president of an NGO called Backward Society Education. Bonded labourers in Under the practice,
once indebted, the labourer and his heirs are
'bonded' to the landlord. They had to actually reside on the landlord's
property until the debt was completely repaid, which seldom happened. Human Trafficking Thrives Across N.Korea-China Border The Chosun Ilbo, 03 Mar 2008 www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MMAH-7CE5ZU?OpenDocument [accessed 14 December 2010] A 26-year-old North
Korean woman, Mun Yun-hee
crossed the Duman (or Tumen) River into China in
the dawn of Oct. 22 last year, which at that point was some 40 m wide, guided
by a human trafficker. She was being sold to a single middle-aged Chinese
farmer into a kind of indentured servitude-cum-companionship. Both of them
wore only panties, having stored their trousers and shoes in bags, because if
you are found wearing wet clothes across the river deep at night, it is a
dead giveaway that you are a North Korean refugee. Mun was led to a
hideout, and the agent left. Asked why she crossed the river, she replied,
"My father starved to death late in the 1990s, and my mother is blind
from hunger." Her family owed 300 kg of corns, beans and rice and sold
herself for the sake of her blind mother and a younger brother. The middleman
paid her 350 yuan, or W46,000 (US$1=W939),
equivalent to half of the grain debt. Papua
New Guinea & Solomon Islands Delegates agree to strengthen efforts to
reduce demand for Commerical Sexual Exploitation Of
Children Joint Media Release: ECPAT International,
UNESCAP, UNICEF, 11 November 2004, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 10 September 2011] In the SUMMARY - Extreme underdevelopment UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs, Somalia 2004 Appeal www.un.org/depts/ocha/cap/somalia.html [accessed 23 December 2010] Somalis still face
extreme poverty and underdevelopment. They consistently rank among the lowest
in the world on key indicators of human development, life expectancy, per
capita income, malnutrition and infant mortality. Somalis also suffer
widespread human rights violations, including: murder, rape, looting and
destruction of property, child soldiering, kidnapping, discrimination against
minorities, torture, female genital mutilation, unlawful arrest and
detention, and denial of due process. Human Trafficking: Greed and the Trail of
Death The Independent, 5/25/2006 www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=8393 [accessed 23 December 2010] anthony.sogang.ac.kr/Somalia.htm [accessed 15 January 2020] The human
trafficking trade out of Somalia is now one of the busiest, most lucrative
and the most lethal in the world. The ferocious violence and anarchy in the
region has kept the scale of profits and misery the most hidden from outside
eyes. Dozens corpses are
found floating in the Arabian Sea every month, often with gunshot wounds,
often with hands tied behind their back - victims of traffickers who have
jettisoned their cargo in the most final way. 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] prezi.com/7wxivqfyhudt/human-rights/ [accessed 11 September 2014] [scroll down] There is growing
evidence of Iraqi children being used as prostitutes in Prostitution on the rise UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report/28974/turkmenistan-prostitution-on-the-rise [accessed 8 March 2015] There is an
unprecedented situation in Turkmenistan when [some] husbands, fathers and
brothers push their wives, daughters and sisters into illegal ways, including
prostitution, because they don't have a job and means to get by, Even more
disturbing, the report alleged that parents had taken to selling their
daughters and setting up brothels in their homes in this otherwise
traditional society. Zambia Human Trafficking - Danger to Social
, Economic Growth [Category – Poverty] Thomas Changopa,
Times of Zambia, 16 April 2007 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] Many of these
children whose parents have died from HIV/AIDS or related diseases lack
parental care and guidance, cultural, social and family ties and life skills
that are usually passed on from generation to generation. They are deprived
of their childhood love and care and many of them lose the opportunity to go
to school. They become victims of human trafficking because they tend to be
attracted to big cities and towns, with the view of earning a living. Zambia The Protection Project - Zambia [DOC] [Category – Poverty] The Paul H. www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/zambia.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - HIV/AIDS, coupled with poverty,
has contributed to the proliferation of street children and child labor in Zimbabwe Tanya: It’s Better to Die of AIDS Than
Hunger [Category – Poverty] Stanley Karombo,
New Internationalist Magazine, Issue 377, April 1, 2005 www.newint.org/features/2005/04/01/harare-zimbabwe/ [accessed 17 January 2011] ‘Soon after the
death of my father I was evicted from the house where my parents lodged in
Mbare. I went to stay with my grandmother who lives in Mabvuku.
There were 10 of us children staying there and we had all been left by
deceased relatives. Life was difficult because, being an old woman, my grandmother had no means of sustaining herself
and all of us at the same time.’ All material used herein reproduced
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