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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Algeria.htm
Algeria is a transit country for men and
women trafficked from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe for the purposes of
commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. These men and women enter Algeria,
voluntarily but illegally, often with the assistance of smugglers. Some of
them become victims of trafficking; men are forced into unskilled labor and
women into prostitution to pay smuggling debts. Criminal networks of
sub-Saharan nationals in southern Algeria facilitate transit by arranging
transportation, forged documents, and promises of employment. Among an
estimated population of 5,000 to 9,000 illegal migrants, some 4,000 to 6,000
are believed to be victims of trafficking, of whom approximately 1,000 are
women. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Coalition Against Trafficking in Women www.catwinternational.org/factbook/Algeria.php [accessed 18 January 2011] ORGANIZED AND INSTITUTIONALIZED
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND VIOLENCE - Algerian women are raped, forced into
prostitution and temporary marriages, beaten and beheading for failure to
wear head coverings by Islamic militants in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/algeria.htm [accessed 18 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Although there were reports in the past that young
girls were kidnapped by terrorist groups and forced to work, there were no
reported terrorist abductions in 2004. CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - The Penal Code prohibits compulsory labor, including
forced or bonded labor by children.
Article 342 of Ordinance 75-47 of June 1975 and Law No. 82-04 of
February 13, 1982 prohibits the corruption and debauchery of minors younger
than age 19, while Article 343 and 344 prohibit the use and recruitment of
minors in prostitution. The Penal Code
prohibits the removal, arbitrary detention and kidnapping of a person,
although is no law specifically prohibiting trafficking in persons. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61685.htm [accessed 18 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
–According to media reports and a local NGO, forced prostitution and domestic
servitude of illegal immigrants from West Africa occurred as immigrants
transited through the country seeking economic opportunity in Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
30 September 2005 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/523d3e252376630ec1257092002f7426?OpenDocument [accessed 18 January 2011] [78] The Committee
expresses its deep concern at the information that child prostitution is
increasing and that not only girls, but also boys who work as vendors,
couriers or domestic servants, are particularly vulnerable to sexual
exploitation. The Committee also notes with concern reports of trafficking in
children and that Protection
Project Country Report [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/algeria.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - Conditions of poverty, cultural
specificity, war, and armed conflict are overwhelming in Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free 2009 www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/algeria [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/algeria [accessed 3 September 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DT275
.A5771 1994 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/dztoc.html [accessed 18 January 2011] Report on the Worst Forms of Child Labour
Compiled by the Global March Against Child Labour [PDF] The Global March Against Child Labour
Resource Centre, 20 September 2004 beta.globalmarch.org/resourcecentre/world/algeria.pdf [accessed 28 August 2012] CHILD TRAFFICKING - There are
unconfirmed reports that young Algerian girls are trafficked to Commercial sexual exploitation of children:
The situation in the Middle East/ Based on the situation analysis written by
Dr Najat M’jid for the Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual
Exploitation, www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 18 January 2011] FORM AND PREVALENCE
OF CSEC IN THE REGION
- Although statistics on CSEC inevitably understate the extent of the
problem, which is largely hidden and therefore impossible to measure, there
are some reliable figures on cases of CSEC that have been reported to law
enforcement entities. In 1999: v Coalition Against Trafficking in Women www.catwinternational.org/factbook/Algeria.php [accessed 18 January 2011] ORGANIZED AND
INSTITUTIONALIZED SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND VIOLENCE - Algerian women
are raped, forced into prostitution and temporary marriages, beaten and
beheading for failure to wear head coverings by Islamic militants in All
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