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Independent.ie, September 04 2007 www.independent.ie/national-news/ireland-named-as-major-route-for-child-trafficking-1070794.html [accessed 14 February 2011] Ireland has been
pinpointed as a major route for trafficking children doomed to a life of
slavery or prostitution in Britain. An official report from the Welsh
Assembly Government (WAG) explicitly names Draft Information Note on Human Trafficking Irish Refugee Council, 5 May 2006 drugsinfonewslineireland.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/ireland-man-jailed-for-human-trafficking/ [accessed 30 August 2012] [scroll down] THE IRISH CONTEXT -
INVESTIGATION
- In Ireland neither the Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking Act) 2000 nor the
Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 has ever resulted in a successful
prosecution for the crime of trafficking, though individuals have been
arrested and charged. This is in contrast to other countries which have had
successful prosecutions. There were approximately 7,000 prosecutions in some
20 countries and 3,000 convictions. Unfortunately many countries, including Israeli women being trafficked abroad The Jerusalem Post, 03/13/2007 www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=54550 [accessed 14 February 2011] www.jpost.com/Israel/Israeli-women-being-trafficked-abroad [accessed 11 February 2019] While police have
struggled to cope with the growing problem of human trafficking through "There has
long been an active ring of people using Israel as a stopping point in the
trafficking of women from foreign countries to other foreign countries… what
we are seeing now is Israeli women themselves being targeted and shipped to
other places," Gal-On said. Human trafficking report: Courts are too
lenient Dan Izenberg,
Jerusalem Post, Apr. 11, 2007 camgirlnotes.15.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=393 [accessed 14 February 2011] www.jpost.com/Israel/Human-trafficking-report-Courts-are-too-lenient [accessed 31 January 2018] The Hotline for
Migrant Workers also reported that the courts did not sufficiently exercise
the right to extract compensation from the traffickers for their victims. The
court awarded compensation in only 11 of the 17 trafficking convictions in
2006 for a total of Women trafficking to Yael www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3470269,00.html [accessed 14 February 2011] The smuggling of
women for prostitution and of drugs from The report stated that
no women were caught being smuggled into Israel to serve as prostitutes in
the last nine months, but head of the shelter for victims of women
trafficking in Israel Ruth Davidovich claimed that
some 30 women were currently staying at the shelter, and that most of them
were smuggled through the Egyptian border. The report stressed
that despite Kosovo A Legal Analysis of Trafficking in Persons
Cases in Kosovo [PDF] Organization for Security and Co-operation
in [accessed 28 August 2011] [page 3] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - The problem of
trafficking in human beings (“trafficking”) continues to be a major human
rights concern in Kosovo. In cases monitored
by the OSCE, victims did not receive the basic guarantees provided by law,
and frequently faced prosecution or the threat of prosecution. Witness
protection measures were rarely used, despite the regular intimidation of
victims. Moreover, judges and prosecutors often failed to understand the
legal definition of the crime of trafficking, or permit perpetrators to go
unpunished. In summary, the OSCE
observed that authorities involved in the investigation and prosecution of
alleged traffickers fail to adopt a victim-centred
approach, or to ensure that perpetrators face justice. Awareness of Human Trafficking Among Young
People in Alison Y. Boak,
Kenneth W. Griffin, Debra Jones & Vita Karklina
-- 29th Annual Conference, Global Health in Times of Crisis, 28-31 May 2002 72.3.236.96/conference_2002/abstracts/a5.php3 [accessed 17 April 2012] CONCLUSIONS - While youth in North
Macedonia Improving the standing and the rights of
victims of human trafficking in judicial proceedings in North Macedonia Council of Europe News, Skopje, 25 June
2020 [accessed 9 July 2020] The study concludes
that there is a need to bring the domestic legislation in compliance with the
European standards by introducing important procedural safeguards for child
victims of trafficking, providing access to free legal aid, as well as
foreseeing measures for protection from secondary victimisation.
Moreover, the research considers that courts should impose effective,
proportional and dissuasive sanctions on the perpetrators, and that the draft
Law on State Compensation for Victims of Violent Crimes should be adopted
without further delay. Child Trafficking New Zealand Ministry of Justice - published
before October 2003 by the Dept of Courts & the
previous Ministry of Justice www.justice.govt.nz/publications/publications-archived/2002/protecting-our-innocence/child-trafficking [accessed 23 February 2011] CHILD TRAFFICKING TO
The New Zealand
Police estimate that there are over 500 Thai women in the sex industry in Niger Liesl Louw,
News24, 2 September 2004 www.jihadwatch.org/2004/09/africa-slavery-lives-on [accessed 12 March 2011] www.news24.com/World/News/Slavery-lives-on-20040902 [accessed 13 June 2017] Last year, the Call for residency for human trafficking
victims At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9 September 2011] “It’s all well and
good that our legal system takes human trafficking seriously,” said Atle Sommerfeldt, General
Secretary of Norwegian Church Aid, in a statement released yesterday. But he
questioned whether Norwegian authorities are doing enough to protect girls
who dare to testify in such cases. “I understand that
the authorities cannot automatically grant full residency to everyone, but in
cases such as this, witnesses need to be protected, and we should allow these
women at least temporary residence in Trafficking Of Women And Children Judge Nimfa
Cuesta Vilches, ExpertLaw
Library, January, 2004 www.ebgan.org/html/docs/TraffickedFilipinoWomenAndChildren.pdf [accessed 12 February 2018] lastradainternational.org/lsidocs/Trafficking%20In%20Women%20And%20Children.pdf [accessed 5 May 2020] A girl child in the
Philippines is discriminated upon early in life due to culture-based and
family reinforced gender biases. For instance, despite her special
nutritional needs in preparation as future mother and nurturer, the girl
child is allotted less food than her father and her brothers. When money for
education is scarce, her brothers are given the preference. The Filipino girl
child takes the stereotyped role of her mother who is portrayed as an abused
and submissive woman relegated to domestic work. Moreover, the public
considers girls and women as sex objects and typifies them as club/bar
entertainers, beauty pageant contestants, and racy or pornographic film
stars. The pejorative
expectations that Filipino society has on women and children are compounded
by problems of extreme poverty; massive labor export; globalization; porous
borders; aggressive tourism campaigns; negative portrayal of women by mass
media; pornography on-line and internet chat-rooms; the practice of
mail-order brides; inter-country adoption; and joint military exercises in the
country with visiting forces from abroad. These factors cause women to become easy victims of
sex-trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation either in the Somalia Outrage as Somali parliament drafts law
permitting child, forced marriages Nita Bhalla &
Mohammed Omer, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Nairobi/Garowe,
11 Aguust 2020 [accessed 12 August 2020] Somalia’s parliament
has sparked outrage by replacing long-awaited legislation to protect women
and girls from violence with a new bill permitting child and forced marriage. The east African
nation has high rates of child marriage and violence against women, including
rape and female genital mutilation (FGM). The United Nations says 45% of
women are married before 18, while 98% have undergone FGM. “This amended bill
is harmful in nature to all Somalis but especially to women, girls and
children as it does not protect from child marriage, forced marriage, rape
and other forms of sexual abuse.” Zimbabwe Human trafficking: A women’s issue [Category – Progress needed] Veritas, The Zimbabwean, Sept. 22, 2010 www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=34378:human-trafficking-a-womens-issue&catid=52&Itemid=32 [accessed 17 January 2011] archive.kubatana.net/html/archive/legisl/100920veritas.asp?sector=legisl&year=2010&range_start=61 [accessed 25 June 2017] Women comprise at
least 56 per cent of the world’s trafficking victims. The feminisation
of poverty and the feminisation of migration mean
that women from poorer and developing countries are particularly vulnerable
and the proportion of women trafficked is higher in
these countries. Human trafficking is modern day slavery. Its victims are
men, women and children in search of better prospects in life. Lured with
promises of better jobs or education, they often end up in prostitution or
forced labour.
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