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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Cameroon.htm
Cameroon is a source, transit,
and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of
forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Most victims are children
trafficked within the country, with girls primarily trafficked for domestic
servitude and sexual exploitation. Both boys and girls are also trafficked
within Cameroon for forced labor in sweatshops, bars, restaurants, on tea and
cocoa plantations, in mines, and for street vending and possibly for forced
begging. Reports indicate that
traditional religious leaders may subject individuals to hereditary slavery
practices rooted in ancestral master-slave relationships in some northern
chiefdoms. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Beatings, Isolation and Fear: The Life of a
Slave in the Pierre Thomas, Jack Date and Theresa Cook,
ABC News, May 21, 2007 abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3190006&page=1 [accessed 26 January 2011] Evelyn Chumbow was
once a slave, but not in some distant country. She worked right here in the ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/cameroon.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61558.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Women and children traditionally have faced the greatest risk of
trafficking and have been trafficked most often for the purposes of sexual
exploitation and forced labor. Most trafficking in children occurred within
the country's borders, while most trafficked women were transported out of
the country. According to anecdotal evidence by the NCHRF, women often were
"hired" into hubs of prostitution, often in A 2000 ILO study
conducted in SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [c] The ILO confirmed that there was an increase during the year in serious
trafficking issues, and slavery situations have been identified in the Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
12 October 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/cameroon2001.html [accessed 26 January 2011] [60] The Committee
is deeply concerned at the large number of children being sold by their
parents and subsequently exploited in the labor market. The Committee is also
concerned at information on alleged instances of trafficking in children for
their exploitation in the State party and in neighboring countries. The
Committee is further concerned at the possible use of inter-country adoption
for the purpose of trafficking. Human trafficking: The faces and sorrow at
the heart of a UN report UN News Centre, 13 February 2009 www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=29907&Cr=&Cr1= [accessed 26 January 2011] Rose was just a
teenager in Rose finally opened
the door in suburban Beatings, Isolation and Fear: The Life of a
Slave in the Pierre Thomas, Jack Date and Theresa Cook,
ABC News, May 21, 2007 abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3190006&page=1 [accessed 26 January 2011] Evelyn Chumbow was
once a slave, but not in some distant country. She worked right here in the Trafficking of African women is thriving Francois Tillinac, Agence France-Presse
AFP, May 10 2007 www.iol.co.za/news/africa/trafficking-of-african-women-is-thriving-1.352453 [accessed 26 January 2011] In January Italian
police smashed several human trafficking rings involving African and eastern
European females and netted some 800 suspects. Outside Couple Indicted On Human Trafficking
Charges www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2005/February/05_crt_050.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] According to the
three count indictment, Joseph Djoumessi and Evelyn Djoumessi violated
federal law by fraudulently bringing a 14 year old Cameroonian girl into the "Too often
human traffickers bait young girls with promises of the American dream only
to then force them into involuntary servitude. Civilized society cannot
tolerate this," said R. Alexander Acosta, Assistant Attorney General for
the Civil Rights Division. "The Justice Department takes these charges
very seriously and is committed to prosecuting those who attempt to profit by
the systematic abuse and degradation of others." Woman gets 17 years for keeping slave girl The www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/feb/28/20050228-112709-4419r/ [accessed 1 September 2011] Theresa Mubang was
convicted by a federal jury in November of involuntary servitude and
harboring an alien. Prosecutors said she forced the girl to cook, clean and
take care of Mubang’s young children for no pay. Mubang also beat the girl
with a high-heeled shoe, broomstick and television cable, prosecutors said. Mubang fled shortly
after her conviction and was not in court in The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/cameroon.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - According to a
report by the International Labor Organization (ILO), thousands of Cameroonian
children fall victim to trafficking every year. Children are exploited as laborers on
plantations and cocoa farms and also
as workers in small shops, bars, and households. It is common for a middle-class family in A common tradition
in Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 6 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/cameroon [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide [accessed 26 January 2011] IYF and Nokia Recognize 11 Outstanding
Youth Leaders with YouthActionNet Awards International Youth Foundation, 209.200.69.141/document.cfm/30/649 [accessed 26 January 2011] In many cases,
award winners plan to use the funding they receive to strengthen and expand
their efforts. In Testimony of Professor Mohamed Mattar
Co-Director, Protection Project Johns Hopkins University Professor Mohamed Mattar, Co-Director,
Protection Project, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] Based upon the
analysis conducted by The Protection Project on these cases, which the Department
of Justice kindly made available, I can say that the majority of victims that
are trafficked into the U.S. come from countries in Africa, especially Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana and Tonga;
Latin America, especially Jamaica, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala; Asia,
especially South Korea, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Thailand and China
and Russia. They are trafficked
for the purposes of prostitution, other forms of sexual exploitation, forced
labor and domestic service. Bittersweet chocolate Caroline Tiger, Salon.com, Feb 14, 2003 lrights.igc.org/press/chocolate021403.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] The most recent
survey of conditions on West African cocoa farms, completed by the International
Institute for Tropical Agriculture for the U.S. Agency for International
Development, estimated that nearly 300,000 children work in dangerous
conditions on cocoa farms in the four countries surveyed -- Ivory Coast,
Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon -- the vast majority of them in the Ivory Coast.
The report, released in July 2002, says that of the 300,000 children, more
than half (64 percent) are under 14 years old. Twelve thousand had no
connection to the family on whose cocoa farm they toiled, but only 5,100 of
them were paid for their work. Almost 6,000 were described as "unpaid
workers with no family ties," provoking advocates to refer to them as
"slaves." Regional efforts against Child Labour Union Network International, 01/28/2002 Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
visually displayed because of its length [accessed 1 September 2011] The states involved
were also classified. A supplier state is the victim's state of origin while
the final destination is a receiver state. Victims can transit through states
to reach a final destination. In Child Slavery in Levi Anthony, June 11, 2002 www.talk-uk.com/showthread.php?22634-UK-must-apologise-for-slave-trade [accessed 26 January 2011] [scroll down] A thriving trade in
human traffic has developed in many parts of African "slave ship" highlights
spread of child slavery Trevor Johnson, World Socialist Web Site,
19 April 2001 www.wsws.org/articles/2001/apr2001/slav-a19.shtml [accessed 26 January 2011] There is also a
thin layer of elite Africans who acquire unpaid servants to work in their
houses. Countries in the front line of this trade include All
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