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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Bolivia.htm
Bolivia is principally a source country for
men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual
exploitation and forced labor. A large number of Bolivians are trafficked to
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Spain, and the United States for forced labor
in sweatshops, factories, and agriculture. In a case discovered in May 2008,
more than 200 Bolivian workers were trafficked to Russia for forced labor in
the construction industry. Within the country, young Bolivian women and girls
are trafficked from rural to urban areas for commercial sexual exploitation.
Members of indigenous communities are particularly at risk of forced labor
within the country, especially on ranches, sugar cane, and Brazilian nut
plantations. Bolivian children are trafficked internally for forced labor in
mining, agriculture, and as domestic servants.. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Bolivia, U.S. cracking down on human
trafficking Donna Boe, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] According to
Rodriquez, two major forms of human trafficking exist in Bolivia. Because
people are desperate for jobs, they flock to Argentina, Brazil, Spain and
North America where some find jobs, and others end up as indentured servants
or worse. There is also a tragic problem of disappearance of children, and
the government is establishing ways to locate these children and to find out
what happened to them. 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 ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/bolivia.htm [accessed 23 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Some children are known to work as indentured
domestic laborers and prostitutes.
Children are reportedly trafficked internally to urban or border areas
for commercial sexual exploitation. It
is also reported that children and adolescents are trafficked internally
within Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61717.htm [accessed 23 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Faced with extreme poverty, many citizens were economic migrants, and some
were victimized by traffickers as they moved from rural areas to cities and
then abroad. Women and children, particularly from indigenous ethnic groups
in the Altiplano region, were at greater risk of being trafficked. Children
were trafficked within the country to work in prostitution, mines, domestic
servitude, and agriculture, particularly harvesting sugar cane and Brazil
nuts. Weak controls along its extensive five borders made the country an easy
transit point for illegal migrants, some of whom may have been trafficked.
Commercial sexual exploitation of children also remained a problem. While there were
reports that some adolescents were sold into forced labor, it appeared that
most victims initially were willing economic migrants who were duped or later
coerced into accepting jobs that turned out to be forced labor. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
28 January 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/bolivia2005.html [accessed 23 January 2011] [63]. The Committee
is concerned about the extent of sexual exploitation and trafficking of
children for this or other purposes, in particular economic exploitation, in
the State party and about the lack of effective programs to address this
problem. Associated Press AP, www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394126/posts [accessed 23 January 2011] At least 1,700
women from Latin America and the Caribbean are lured each year into sexual
slavery in Donna Boe, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] According to
Rodriquez, two major forms of human trafficking exist in Bolivia. Because
people are desperate for jobs, they flock to Argentina, Brazil, Spain and
North America where some find jobs, and others end up as indentured servants
or worse. There is also a tragic problem of disappearance of children, and
the government is establishing ways to locate these children and to find out
what happened to them. 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 www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2006/June/200606051529441xeneerg0.8676874.html [accessed 23 January 2011] HUMAN TRAFFICKING
“TIER 2 WATCH LIST”
- Even though Bolivia moved up from its Tier 3 listing in the 2005 report,
the country was placed on the Tier 2 watch list for its failure to show
evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in the areas of
trafficking prosecutions and victim protection. Human trafficking's dirty profits and huge
costs Inter-American Development Bank, Nov 2,
2006 www.iadb.org/news/detail.cfm?language=English&ARTID=3357&id=3357 [accessed 23 January 2011] CASES IN LATIN
AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN - In Annual Report Of Activities By The
Anti-Trafficking In Persons Section Of The Organization Of American States -
April 2005 To March 2006 [DOC] Organization of American States, Inter-American
Commission of Women, 27 March 2006 www.procuraduria.gov.do/PGR.NET/RemjaVI/Informes/Ingles.doc [accessed 23 January 2011] Between October 17
and 21, a series of seminars, focusing on different topics, were held in the
cities of Trinidad, La Paz, and Cochabamba. La Paz hosted a seminar on
“Training for Journalists from the Bolivian Media in Trafficking in Persons:
Reporting and Spreading the News while Upholding Victims’ Rights,” at which
communicators, journalists, and owners of media outlets (written press,
radio, and television) involved with the topic or who had produced important
work relating to it, were given training relating to trafficking in human
lives. In Due to Efforts against Trafficking in
Persons U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
June 16, 2009 bolivia.usembassy.gov/traffpb.html [access date unavailable] Over the past year,
despite limited resources, Also, Bolivia made
efforts to prevent this crime by means of awareness seminars held throughout
the country and increased protection services for the victims. The Grounds for Bolivia’s New Military
Bases Alex Sánchez, Research Fellow, Council on
Hemispheric Affairs COHA, 18 Oct 2006 www.coha.org/the-grounds-for-bolivia%E2%80%99s-new-military-bases/ [accessed 23 January 2011] The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/bolivia.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Women and children
are trafficked from Women and children
are trafficked to Argentina, Brazil, and Chile to work as domestic servants.
Some women are trafficked from Bolivia to Argentina, where they are forced to
work in textile factories, or to northern Chile, where they are made to work
in agriculture. Women are trafficked
from Bolivia to Brazil to work in textile factories, in homes, in the
agricultural sector, and in factories.
Bolivian women have been trafficked to Spain with promises of work,
but instead they have been forced into prostitution. Bolivian children are reportedly trafficked
to Spain for illegal adoption. In July 2000,
Bolivian nationals trafficked 24 Bolivian girls to Argentina for the purpose
of prostitution. The recruiter (the mother of the brothel owner) recruited
children from outdoor markets in the rural areas of Bolivia. She told them
and their parents that the girls could work as criaditas, or little maids, in
Argentina. The parents authorized the children to leave under the pretense
that they were going on vacation, so that they could get tourist visas.
Tickets and visas were purchased through a travel agency. The recruiter; the
brothel owner’s husband, who had transported the children; the owner of the
travel agency; and the brothel owner were charged with forcing minors into
prostitution. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 3 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/bolivia [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 23 January 2011] Library of Congress Call Number F3308 .B685
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