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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of
the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/BurkinaFaso.htm
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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links have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in ***
FEATURED ARTICLES *** Nigerian ladies rescued from prostitution
syndicate’s den in Burkina Faso Chris Anucha and Matthew Dike, Daily Sun,
February 2, 2006 www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/32957-u-s-congress-apologises-slavery.html [accessed 2 September 2012] [scroll down] Tony was said to
have promised to take Rita and Lovina to Children saved from 'slavery' Agence France-Presse AFP, www.news24.com/Africa/News/Children-saved-from-slavery-20040507 [accessed 24 January 2011] 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 *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/burkina-faso.htm [accessed 24 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Studies indicate that a significant proportion of
trafficking activity is internal.
Children are trafficked into Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61556.htm [accessed 24 January 2011] 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 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4
October 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/burkinofaso2002.html [accessed 24 January 2011] [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. 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) Immigration and Refugee Board of www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,IRBC,,BFA,456d621e2,45f146f3b,0.html [accessed 24 January 2011] Many sources
indicated that child forced labour is still a problem in NGOs Work To Eradicate Human Trafficking,
Help Victims presszoom.com/story_134115.html [accessed 24 January 2011] 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 Chris Anucha and Matthew Dike, Daily Sun,
February 2, 2006 www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/32957-u-s-congress-apologises-slavery.html [accessed 2 September 2012] [scroll down] Tony was said to
have promised to take Rita and Lovina to The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/burkina.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 5 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/burkina-faso [accessed 26 June 2012] Burkina Faso: Government Tackles Rising
Number of Abandoned Children UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, 6 April 2004 www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=49418 [accessed 24 January 2011] 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 Stop Child Trafficking, 01.06.2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] Their luggage is
next to nothing. Because when the young boys and girls from the south of Children saved from 'slavery' Agence France-Presse AFP, www.news24.com/Africa/News/Children-saved-from-slavery-20040507 [accessed 24 January 2011] 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 AFROL News, 30 June 2004 [accessed 23 January 2011] Although www.migrationint.com.au/news/australia/jul_2001-21mn.asp [accessed 24 January 2011] 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 Child Labour Persists Around The World:
More Than 13 Percent Of Children 10-14 Are Employed International Labour Organisation (ILO)
News, www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/news/WCMS_008058/lang--en/index.htm [accessed 9 September 2011] "Today's child
worker will be tomorrow's uneducated and untrained adult, forever trapped in grinding
poverty. No effort should be spared to break that vicious circle", says
ILO Director-General Michel Hansenne. Among the countries
with a high percentage of their children from 10-14 years in the work force
are: Mali, 54.5 percent; Burkina Faso,
51; Niger and Uganda, both 45; Kenya, 41.3; Senegal, 31.4; Bangladesh,
30.1; Nigeria, 25.8; Haiti, 25; Turkey, 24; Côte d'Ivoire, 20.5; Pakistan,
17.7; Brazil, 16.1; India, 14.4; China, 11.6; and Egypt, 11.2. All
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