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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the first ten years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2009
Burkina Faso is a source, transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Most victims are children, trafficked within the country from rural areas to urban centers such as Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso, for domestic servitude, sexual exploitation, and forced labor in gold mines and stone quarries, and the agriculture sector. Burkinabè children are also trafficked for the same purposes to other West African countries, most notably to Côte d’Ivoire, where many are subjected to forced agricultural labor, including on cocoa farms. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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culled from the web to illuminate the situation in ***
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ladies rescued from prostitution syndicate’s den in Burkina Faso Tony was said to have promised to
take Rita and Lovina to Police in The traffickers had managed to win
the confidence of the children's parents by convincing them that the
youngsters were to be taken to The official daily Sidwaya reported that the real fate of such victims,
snatched in several provinces in ***
ARCHIVES *** U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Studies indicate that a significant proportion of trafficking
activity is internal. Children are
trafficked into Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The country
was an occasional source for women who traveled to Trafficked children were subject to
violence, sexual abuse, forced prostitution, and deprivation of food,
shelter, schooling, and medical care. Organized child trafficking networks
existed throughout the country, and during the year security forces
dismantled four such networks. Child trafficking networks cooperated with
regional smuggling rings. According to the 2004-05 report by
the Protection of Infants and Adolescents office, security forces intercepted
921 trafficked children, more than half of whom were girls; 158 were destined
for international trafficking. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2002 [54] While welcoming the efforts
undertaken by the State party to combat child trafficking through a national
program and, in particular, the adoption of a travel document with five other
countries of the region, the Committee is deeply concerned at the number of
trafficked children who are exploited in the State party and in neighboring
countries. Immigration
and Refugee Board of Canada www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,IRBC,,BFA,456d621e2,45f146f3b,0.html
www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/research/rir/?action=record.viewrec&gotorec=450022 RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs) - Burkina Faso: Child slavery in Burkina Faso, including boy domestic
slaves; protection from the authorities and NGOs; possibility of
emancipation, particularly when a young boy given to a family as a payment of
a debt reaches the age of majority (2004-2006). - htcp NGOs Work
To Eradicate Human Trafficking, Help Victims U.S.-funded nongovernmental
organizations around the world are working to prevent human trafficking,
provide resources to victims and arrest and prosecute child-sex offenders.
From Africa to Europe to PREVENTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING - The anti-trafficking network in
Nigerian
ladies rescued from prostitution syndicate’s den in Burkina Faso Tony was said to have promised to
take Rita and Lovina to The
Protection Project - Burkina Faso [DOC] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 5 Civil
Liberties: 3 Status:
Partly Free Burkina Faso:
Government Tackles Rising Number of Abandoned Children www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/IRC/newsdesk_articles.asp?SCID=1304 According to government
statistics, there were 2.1 million orphans and abandoned children in Children, separated from their
families by unscrupulous individuals who promise the impoverished parents
that the child will have better life with another family, end up with no one
to protect them. Many are little more than unpaid domestic slaves. - htsc Child trafficking projects in West Africa - Burkino Faso www.stopchildtrafficking.org/site/West_Africa.174.0.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Their luggage is next to nothing.
Because when the young boys and girls from the south of Police in The traffickers had managed to win
the confidence of the children's parents by convincing them that the
youngsters were to be taken to The official daily Sidwaya reported that the real fate of such victims,
snatched in several provinces in Labour standards violated in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali Although CHILD TRAFFICKING - In a high-profile campaign by
the government of the Since January, 350 alleged child slaves
have been returned. The Ivorian government agrees that child slavery is a
problem but denies it is widespread on the cocoa plantations. It claims that
the children, traffickers and their sponsors are all foreigners and that
Ivorian farmers are not to blame. The country has tightened its borders
controls, especially with All material used herein
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