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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Canada.htm
Canada is a source, transit, and destination
country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of
commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Canadian women and girls,
many of whom are aboriginal, are trafficked internally for commercial sexual
exploitation. NGOs report that Canada is a destination
country for foreign victims trafficked for labor exploitation; some labor
victims enter Canada legally but then are subjected to forced labor in
agriculture, sweatshops, or as domestic servants. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Aboriginal women fair game for predators
amid public indifference Jim Bronskill and Sue Bailey, The Brooks
Bulletin, www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1499/a05.html?212 [accessed 27 January 2011] Untold scores of
society's most vulnerable members - young native women - have gone missing
across the country only to be forsaken by a jaded justice system and
neglectful media. The death and disappearance of aboriginal women has emerged
as an alarming nationwide pattern, from western serial murders to
little-known Atlantic vanishings. Grim statistics and anecdotal evidence
compiled by The Canadian Press suggest public apathy has allowed predators to
stalk native victims with near impunity. Human trafficking in Vancouver Magda Ibrahim, The Westender, perb.ca/vbulletin/showthread.php?74529-Human-trafficking-in-Vancouver [accessed 31 August 2011] Women become
trapped in sex trade after being lured to city with false promises. Imagine being beaten, forced into sex work,
and told you’ll be killed if you try to escape. The constant threat of
violence means you’re too scared to go to the authorities, but even if you
did, there’s little chance of retribution for your attacker. This might sound like something that would
happen in a third-world country, or during some bygone era, but it’s happening
now in Vancouver, and is a reality for many victims of human trafficking. “I can’t understand
why Canada hasn’t successfully prosecuted a single person for human
trafficking when you look at other countries like the U.S., Australia, and
the U.K.,” says Perrin. “We’ve made the same commitments and been to the same
conferences, but Canada has been all talk and no action. We’re just beginning
to turn the corner; we’re where other countries we consider ourselves in the
same league as were 10 years ago. We’ve had a decade of inaction on this and
it’s allowed traffickers to profit; we need to make it more risky and less
profitable for them.” Human Trafficking May Be Closer to Home
Than We Think 2008-04-21
- Source: miramichileader.canadaeast.com/front/article/271131 www.antitraf.net/home.php?mode=more&id=44&lang=en [accessed 27 January 2011] INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKING - Coming into DOMESTIC TRAFFICKING - Women are first befriended by a recruiter
who often becomes their boyfriend and then convinces them move to a new
city. The traffickers will use
threats; they may beat or gang rape the person or threaten to kill their
family — anything to keep them there.
"They wine them and dine them ... All of a sudden they are moving
from one city to another city. Once they get there they are sold and forced
to live on the street." ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61719.htm [accessed 27 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Thousands of persons entered the country illegally over the last decade.
These persons came primarily from East Asia (particularly China and Korea,
but also Malaysia), Central and South Asia, Eastern Europe, Russia, Latin
America and the Caribbean (including Mexico, Honduras, and Haiti), and South
Africa. Many of these illegal immigrants paid large sums to be smuggled to
the country, were indentured to their traffickers upon arrival, worked at
lower than minimum wage, and used most of their salaries to pay down their
debt at usurious interest rates. The traffickers used violence to ensure that
their clients paid and that they did not inform the police. Asian women and
girls who were smuggled into the country often were forced into prostitution.
Traffickers used intimidation and violence, as well as the illegal
immigrants' inability to speak English, to keep victims from running away or
informing the police. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3
October 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/canada2003.html [accessed 27 January 2011] [52] The Committee
is also concerned about the increase of foreign children and women trafficked
into [53] The Committee
recommends … Sex trafficking: a national disgrace “Invisible Chains: Reviewed by Julian Sher, Globe and Mail,
Oct. 15, 2010 [accessed 27 January 2011] The stories he
documents are heartbreaking: a 14-year-old from Perrin cites a
report from From April, 2007,
to April, 2009, only about 30 people were charged with human trafficking in 10 family members charged in
human-trafficking case Adrian Morrow, The Globe and Mail, October
8, 2010 www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/10-family-members-charged-in-human-trafficking-case/article1749707/ [accessed 27 January 2011 – access is now restricted] Out of work and
impoverished, the men from the town of Papa in western Hungary were offered
jobs in Canada, where they believed they could start new lives or at least
earn enough money to support their families back home. The RCMP say the
reality they faced after their new bosses picked them up from John C. Munro
airport in Hamilton was far different: housed in the basements of their
employers’ homes and fed scraps from the table, they were made to work long
hours at construction sites for no money. The family’s
associates in Human trafficking
count laid Gabrielle Giroday, www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/human-trafficking-count-laid-103697094.html [accessed 27 January 2011] The 38-year-old is
accused of taking the victim's identification and clothing, punching her in a
fight and stopping her twice as she attempted to run away, The Criminal Code
describes a trafficker in human beings as "a person (who) exploits
another person if they cause the victim to provide labour or service for fear
of their safety or the safety of someone known to them." However, the report
did note there have been at least 30 court cases where victims -- mostly
women between 14 and 25 years old -- were trafficked within Human traffic twist Tamara Cherry, Sun Media, December 26, 2008 www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2008/12/26/7852636-sun.html [accessed 27 January 2011] A different picture
emerged of a flesh trade often thought of as foreign nationals tricked across
borders. It became apparent that Canadian women and girls were being
victimized by Canadian men. The first two human trafficking convictions --
one in May, another in November, both from the Peel Regional Police vice unit
-- involved domestic trafficking victims who were forced to prostitute and
hand over all their earnings to pimps. The "rules" identified by
police -- always checking in with their pimps, meeting daily quotas, the list
goes on -- were strikingly similar across the board, when comparing the cases
to the other nine human trafficking charges Peel has before the courts. The first
conviction, which involved two teenaged girls -- one just 14 years old -- who
worked seven days a week and brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars for
their trafficker, created "a ripple that has reached every region of the
country," Perrin said. Child prostitute alleges she was lured to Times Colonist, November 17, 2008 www2.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=%202f361123-b251-4fc1-97d0-2c578968d52f [accessed 27 January 2011] A man released on
bail in October is back in custody after police discovered he allegedly lured
a 14-year-old female to work as a prostitute. She alleges that
she met the Victoria man over the internet. He lured her to Victoria from her
family home in the B.C. Interior from where she has been missing for three
weeks. Once here, he took control of her possessions, including
identification and wallet. She says that when she tried to leave, he beat her
and threatened her. Why Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun, October 29,
2008 www2.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=815e5425-18e2-4e45-81d7-0e369203b0b5 [accessed 27 January 2011] Only one victim --
a child sold to slave traders by parents -- came forward voluntarily. Fear,
threats and coercion probably kept some away.
But, Perrin says, in most provinces, especially Ontario and Quebec,
it's almost impossible to find any help.
But since the solicitor-general's office to combat human trafficking
was set up two years ago, there hasn't been a single victim rescued or charge
laid. During the two years that Canada
identified 31 trafficking victims, the United States found 17,000. It's not that
Canada is clean; the Americans have identified it as both a source and
destination country for the victims of slave traders. It's more likely because Canada has no
national strategy for finding traffickers, no national plan for identifying
and helping victims and little understanding of who the victims are. Canada is obviously doing many things
wrong. Flesh trade targets natives - Young
Aboriginal women used as a sex commodity in cities across Canada Tamara Cherry, Sun Media, November 13, 2008 www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2008/09/29/6916776-sun.html [accessed 27 January 2011] "There's a
total myth that Aboriginal women either consent to or are born into the sex
trade," says Jo-Ann Daniels, interim executive director for the Metis
Settlements General Council in "It is
Aboriginal girls and women who are specifically targeted in this country to
be trafficked, in such huge numbers that it does not compare to any other
population," Daniels says. "We believe that it is the root source
of Aboriginal women ever being involved in the sex trade. We believe that
Aboriginal women and Aboriginal girls have been domestically trafficked now
for, I would say probably since the '50s when there began to be Aboriginal
movement into urban areas or there were more contacts between Aboriginal
communities and towns." YOUNG, NAIVE - Sethi quotes an
Aboriginal outreach worker as such: "Girls tend to believe in the
promises of the traffickers as they are young, naive and vulnerable in a new
and big city. They are unsuspecting of the motives of the traffickers, since
they belong to communities that have a culture of welcoming strangers." Foreign workers lured with lies Tamara Cherry, Sun Media, November 13, 2008 www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2008/09/30/6926301-sun.html [accessed 27 January 2011] DEBT TO PAY - Like many
trafficking victims who are smuggled into this country, these victims are,
too, told they have a debt to pay off. We found you a job, now you owe us
some money. And there is nobody
telling them otherwise. "There’s
nobody to check up on them," Sikka says.
With no official agreement obligating the federal government to tell
the provinces who, when and how many people are arriving as temporary foreign
workers or live-in caregivers, employment standards branches across the
country, no matter how good their intentions, don’t have the necessary
information to check up on workers, Sikka says. "There’s no mandatory orientation
done," she says. "It’s absolutely, 100% necessary. I think it’s the
primary thing we can do to stop the types of trafficking that are going on in
Western Canada particularly." Debt bondage aside,
workers can fall into a "vicious cycle" of exploitation simply by
not being informed of their rights upon arrival, Sikka says. Something as simple as informing workers
about the procedure of changing employers would be helpful for foreign
workers who are granted visas to work at one place, but upon arrival in
Canada, are shuffled over to different employers. By the time they figure out they are
working illegally, experts say, these workers may be hesitant to speak out
about an exploitive situation for fear of deportation. "They can change employers if they
want, but they’re just not told," Sikka says. "Nobody informs them
they have to go through that procedure." UQ study looks at foreign sex worker
exploitation and human trafficking www.uq.edu.au/news/?article=16004 [accessed 27 January 2011] One of the major
obstacles to government policy making, program development by
non-governmental organisations, and public awareness about the exploitation
of foreign workers and the trafficking in persons was the lack of any reliable
and comprehensive account of the nature and extent of this problem, he
said. Anecdotal evidence and
statistical estimates without a sufficient evidentiary basis were the only
sources of information currently available about Australia and Canada's involvement
in trafficking in persons. This was in
contrast to other countries where comprehensive accounts of human trafficking
were published annually by government agencies. Exploited workers Dale Brazao, www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/488074 [accessed 27 January 2011] Skilled Filipino
workers packed into filthy house, denied pay, threatened with deportation It was 5:30 in the
morning when Edwin Canilang realized he had been bought and sold. Crowded in the back of a van heading north
of Toronto with four other Filipino men last summer, the skilled welder faced
another unpaid day on a cleanup detail at a bottling plant. Some were pressed
into service at a water bottling plant, run by De Rosa's family. Others dug
ditches or picked up garbage around a large rural estate where De Rosa lives.
The workers, threatened with deportation, did every menial job thrown at
them. None of the work involved welding and plumbing, the trades that brought
them here. Que. couple could face human trafficking
charge in teen prostitution case Dave Rogers , Canwest News Service, www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=2410189b-25bf-47f0-9166-82af82b3ccfe [accessed 27 January 2011] Emerson was charged
with 13 offences, including kidnapping, forcible confinement and procuring
and living off the avails of prostitution after the police gangs section
discovered that three teenage girls had been held captive for up to a year in
a condominium building in Gatineau, just across the Ottawa River from the
nation's capital. Investigators said
Wednesday that one 17-year-old girl they believed was an accomplice turned
out to be a victim who had been held prisoner for a year. Two other
17-year-old girls are alleged to have been held for five to six months while
they engaged in prostitution.
Gatineau's Assistant Crown attorney Diane Legault said Thursday the
two accused likely will face new charges, including human trafficking. In November 2005, the Criminal Code was
amended to make the "recruitment, transporting, transferring, receipt,
holding, concealment or harbouring of a person, or the exercise of control,
direction or influence over the movements of a person for the purpose of
exploiting them or facilitating their exploitation" an indictable
offence. SPECIAL REPORT: Human Trafficking - It
happens more than you think in Canada.com, July 21, 2008 www.canada.com/globaltv/ontario/story.html?id=c7ccee8e-c196-426a-a098-fa1d426ac0fe [accessed 27 January 2011] Slavery is alive
and thriving in the 21st century. While human trafficking is indeed a global
issue, Canadian citizens are often trafficked within their own country,
enslaved, bought and sold from province to province. Every situation is
different; often victims are lured into a horrific exploitive setting not by
strangers but by someone they know, a relative, a neighbor, or even a friend. Hundreds of
thousands of children, young men and women have vanished from their everyday
lives -forced by violence into a hellish existence of brutality and
prostitution. They're a profitable commodity in the multi-billion-dollar
industry of modern slavery. The underworld calls them human trafficking and
it is all happening in our country. Human trafficking a growing problem in Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC News,
October 28, 2008 www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/10/28/bc-human-trafficking-number.html?ref=rss [accessed 27 January 2011] But Perrin said
Canada's first human trafficking conviction this summer did not involve a
foreigner, but rather a 13-year-old in the Greater Toronto Area who was
bought and sold by Canadian men on the popular online classified
advertisement website Craigslist. In May, former
Toronto man Imani Nakpamgi admitted in court that he made more than $400,000
selling two underage girls for sex, according to the Toronto Star. Both girls
had been reported missing, either by their family or child welfare officials.
UPDATES ON BC man charged with human
trafficking sentenced to 15 months The Canadian Press, www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080424/human_trafficking_080424?s_name=I&no_ads= [accessed 20 April 2012] During Ng's trial,
provincial court Judge Malcolm MacLean was told Ng brought women to Human Trafficking May Be Closer to Home
Than We Think 2008-04-21
- Source: miramichileader.canadaeast.com/front/article/271131 www.antitraf.net/home.php?mode=more&id=44&lang=en [accessed 27 January 2011] INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKING - Coming into DOMESTIC TRAFFICKING - Women are first befriended by a recruiter
who often becomes their boyfriend and then convinces them move to a new
city. The traffickers will use
threats; they may beat or gang rape the person or threaten to kill their
family — anything to keep them there.
"They wine them and dine them ... All of a sudden they are moving
from one city to another city. Once they get there they are sold and forced
to live on the street." Royal Canadian Mounted Police Report On Sex
Slave Market Prompts Recount Of Trafficking Victims Vittorio Hernandez, All Headline News (AHN
News), April 14, 2008 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 August 2011] Following the
rediscovery of sex slave rings in Rise in human trafficking largely unnoticed
in Jonathan Montpetit, The Canadian Press,
April 09, 2008 [accessed 27 January 2011] Human traffickers peddle young girls to work as sex slaves in Canadian
cities for as little as $2,000 - a situation most people believe only happens
in foreign lands, activists say. An increase in
human trafficking in Canada has gone largely unnoticed because Canadians
think young girls choose to take up the sex trade, according to Joy Smith, a
Conservative MP and longtime anti-trafficking activist. “There are girls being sold in Montreal for
$2,000,” Smith said. She pointed out
that many dismiss the scope of the problem by claiming sex slaves, who are
mainly women, chose to become prostitutes.
“A lot of the girls in brothels never meant to be in brothels,” Smith
said. “They got there because somebody threatened them and forced them into it.” Alleged victims of human trafficking ring
in protective custody Cynthia Reason, InsideToronto, Jan 15, 2008 www.insidetoronto.com/insidetoronto/article/52096 [accessed 27 January 2011] Police allege the victims
were smuggled across the Canadian border using false Israeli passports,
provided by "the same criminal element from overseas," and then had
their documents taken away from them upon their arrival. Victims were then
allegedly brought to a safe house and held until they started to comply with
their perpetrators' demands - whether through threats of violence or
allegations that they owed their captors for bringing them to Canada. Police say they
believe the victims would be locked in isolated rooms, away from the general
public and away from each other, each day until around 6 p.m. A driver or
chaperone would then arrive to bring them to a location or locations to work
as prostitutes. When finished, they'd be brought back home and locked up
again, Ervick alleged. Ervick said the
sums of money exchanging hands would vary on a case to case basis, but he
alleged each young victim could conceivably "bring in as much as $4,000
to $10,000 a week," but only be given a given small sum to live off. "These women
are very vulnerable, in a country that is not their own, where they don't
speak the language and are isolated both from the general population and from
each other," he alleged. www.eontarionow.com/provincial/2008/01/12/toronto-police-uncover-human-trafficking-ring/ [accessed 27 January 2011] At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] Police say the
victims came to Human-trafficking charges dropped www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=7551a78e-cf3d-4bd7-8872-b1bd9f9a9a96&k=52157 [accessed 27 January 2011] The couple's
lawyer, Frank Pappas, said "even Inspector Clouseau" could have
done a better investigation than the RCMP, who didn't interview the couple's
neighbours, or the clerk at the depanneur where the domestic bought phone
cards to call overseas. "Had the
RCMP investigated properly from the outset, they would have realized that her
assertion ... that she was a prisoner was completely false," Pappas
said. "Even Ray Charles could have seen it." But Pappas said the
whole thing was a scam in order for Manaye to avoid deportation. Social networking sites used for human-trafficking
- Hundreds of Albertans get targeted each year Andrew Hanon, Sun Media, November 11, 2007 [accessed 27 January 2011] They do most of
their recruiting on social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace,
choosing naïve or vulnerable victims for “grooming” who are right around 18
years old in order to avoid detection by authorities looking for predators
after underage kids. After four or five
dizzyingly spectacular dates, the predator will invite her to a private
party. She will be
gang-raped and subjected to unspeakable humiliation. She might be
drugged. “Her ‘boyfriend’ will tell
her what’s expected of her,” Galvin said. “She’s told the event will occur
anyways. She can either fight or submit to it, but it’s going to happen.” She will be threatened with death if she
goes to police. Her family might also be threatened. Human trafficking an issue in Canada F. Loyie, www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=c1f9c216-3ba7-4e47-be78-2d5943638faf&k=96640 [accessed 27 January 2011] Human-trafficking
is not issue that gets a lot of attention in Human trafficking in Vancouver Magda Ibrahim, The Westender, [accessed 27 January 2011] Women become
trapped in sex trade after being lured to city with false promises Imagine being beaten, forced into sex work,
and told you’ll be killed if you try to escape. The constant threat of
violence means you’re too scared to go to the authorities, but even if you
did, there’s little chance of retribution for your attacker. This might sound like something that would
happen in a third-world country, or during some bygone era, but it’s
happening now in Vancouver, and is a reality for many victims of human
trafficking. “I can’t understand
why Canada hasn’t successfully prosecuted a single person for human trafficking
when you look at other countries like the U.S., Australia, and the U.K.,”
says Perrin. “We’ve made the same commitments and been to the same
conferences, but Canada has been all talk and no action. We’re just beginning
to turn the corner; we’re where other countries we consider ourselves in the
same league as were 10 years ago. We’ve had a decade of inaction on this and
it’s allowed traffickers to profit; we need to make it more risky and less
profitable for them.” Reforming Canada’s Record on Human Trafficking www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2007/07sep06/reform.html [accessed 27 January 2011] A young woman
answers a job ad that offers a prepaid air ticket and glamorous work as an
international model. She leaves home -- perhaps from a city in Eastern Europe
or Southeast Asia. Upon arriving in
Canada, she discovers to her horror that she has been lured into the sex
trade and faces “debts” that she must now pay off. Somehow she escapes her
captors and looks for help. The authorities detain, interrogate and then
deport her. Until recently, this was
how Canada routinely treated human trafficking victims -- as illegal
migrants, says Benjamin Perrin, an assistant professor who joined the UBC
Faculty of Law in August. Organized Crime and Human Trafficking in Christine Bruckert Ph.D. & Colette
Parent Ph.D., Department of Criminology, for the Research and Evaluation Branch,
Community, Contract and Aboriginal Policing Services Directorate, Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/PS64-1-2004E.pdf [accessed 27 January 2011] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - The review of
the cases reveals that, in spite of the judiciaries’ implicit acceptance of the
official and counter discourse vis-à-vis the trafficking of women for the
purposes of prostitution by organized crime, judgments are, for the most
part, marked by a lack of sensitivity to the cultural, economic and social
reality of undocumented migrant workers generally and to the reality of
exploitation, violence and stigma experienced by sex trade workers more
specifically. Moreover the documents are interpreted in a manner that renders
the majority of claimants outside the discourse and hence not entitled to the
consideration afforded ‘victims’. In particular the extrajudicial and
potentially moral question of whether the women knew they would be working in
the sex trade is rendered significant. It would appear that embedded in the
sex slave/sex worker dichotomy is another dualism – innocent/culpable.
Therefore women who are unaware that they will participate in the trade are
potentially protected while women who experience severe labour abuse are held
accountable for their situation regardless of the exploitation they may
experience. In short the ‘sex slave’ discourse may operate against the
interests of many irregular migrant sex trade workers by obscuring their
exploitation at the same time as it renders exploitation the defining
characteristic of others. Citizenship and Immigration [accessed 27 January 2011] The Honourable
Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, today introduced new
measures to help assist victims of human trafficking brought into Canada from
abroad. The new measures extend the
length of the temporary resident permit (TRP) for victims of human trafficking
to 180 days, up from 120. This extension also allows victims to apply for a
work permit - an option not previously available. The new measures will also continue to
allow victims of human trafficking to receive health-care benefits, including
medical treatment and counselling services, under the Interim Federal Health
Program. F1 fuels human trafficking, activists say S. Montgomery, The Gazette ( www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=2d953737-bd6e-4f81-b64c-c2755eb489cc [accessed 27 January 2011] Last year, Falling Short of the Mark: An International
Study on the Treatment of Human Trafficking Victims [PDF] The Future Group, March 2006 www.oas.org/atip/canada/Fallingshortofthemark.pdf [accessed 27 January 2011] The situation in Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC News,
January 8, 2007 www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/01/08/human-traffic.html [accessed 27 January 2011] The average model
is 14 years old, the Winnipeg-based Crawford said, and some of them are
vulnerable to abuse by recruiters, agents and
photographers. Crawford says she has seen or heard of girls being
raped, used as prostitutes or sent to work in bars. Ewatski acknowledged that human trafficking
as a crime has come to Winnipeg, although not to the same extent as larger
centres such as Vancouver and Montreal. MP calls for action to combat human
trafficking Canwest News Service, www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=827e2ece-6b58-49d3-9733-a1a77451366d&k=7165 [accessed 27 January 2011] Smith explained
that women from other countries are promised a better life in Human-trafficking bill introduced Click [here]
to connect to the article. Its URL is
not displayed because of its length [accessed 27 January 2011] A Canadian teenager
signs up for a modelling program and, unbeknownst to her parents, is forced
to have sex with strangers while travelling in Local Sex Crime Conference Focuses On Human
Trafficking City News, [accessed 27 January 2011] And the crime that
so often happens in the background is more present than any of us would like
to think. Numbers from the Mounties suggest between 600-800
people are 'trafficked' to Canada every year. Many of those being victimized are prime
targets for the despicable entrepreneurs - young women from third-world
countries that have high rates of poverty, violence, illiteracy and political
and economic instability. But it's not
just the more stereotyped "sex slaves" that you often read about.
While that's number one on the list, the vulnerable can also become prisoners
of domestic servitude, the farming and fishing industry and sweat shops. Human trafficking not just a big city
problem: RCMP Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC News,
November 7, 2006 www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2006/11/07/human-trafficking.html [accessed 27 January 2011] Human trafficking
is becoming a bigger concern all the time, he said, and it often involves
forcing people into the sex trade or making farm workers and nannies work
long hours for little money. MacIver
said it's not talked about much in small towns, so people may think it
doesn't exist. "They are not
aware of it and not educated about it," he said. According to the RCMP, between 800 and
1,200 people are victims of human trafficking in Canada each year, most
working in forced labour or the illegal sex trade. Human trafficking victims face immigration
barriers Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC News,
October 26, 2006 www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/10/26/human-trafficking.html [accessed 27 January 2011] Hundreds of
children, men and women believed to be bought and sold in Robert Freeman, Black Press, Oct 10 2006 put-kids-first.blogspot.com/2006/10/university-college-of-fraser-valley.html [accessed 27 January 2011] "We have to
create an environment in which it is safe for victims to come forward and
seek help," he said, keeping in mind that they are "seriously at
risk of reprisal or intimidation" from their captors here in Canada
while their families face "terrorism" back in their homeland. Successful human
traffickers have become adept at using various simple but very effective
methods of psychological control over their victims," Dandurand said.
"They know how to break a victim's self-confidence and self-efficacy,
crush their hopes, and condition them to resign themselves to a life of
exploitation in which they are trapped." Border guards uncover human trafficking
network 22 June 2006 -- Source: www.pentictonwesternnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=102&cat=23&id=673681&more= www.pentictonwesternnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=102&cat=23&id=673681&more= [accessed 27 January 2011] Six Korean women,
who were potential victims of human trafficking, have returned to Human Trafficking Could be Huge Issue
During 2010 Olympics Camille Bains, Canadian Press CP, December
09, 2006 tfgwebmaster.site.aplus.net/wwwthefuturegrouporg/id44.html [accessed 27 January 2011] Typically,
traffickers lure women with promises of jobs that will supposedly pay them
many times what they would earn in their home country. But the reality is they’re forced to work
as prostitutes in massage parlours and must repay thousands of dollars in
debt for living expenses and forged passports. Non-governmental organizations say women
are sometimes kidnapped, beaten and drugged before being brought to Canada
for an industry that involves low risk and high profits for the traffickers. Government and police officials are aware
of the problem and concerned about the potential the Games pose for
traffickers. Press Review For May 12, 2006 geo.international.gc.ca/canada_un/ottawa/canada_un/unupdate-en.asp?id=6526&content_type=2 [Last access date unavailable] HEADLINES - HUMAN
TRAFFICKING: [scroll down to the
story] The Future Group, a Canadian NGO, said in March that Ottawa did a terrible job of helping human trafficking victims and usually deported them. Immigration Minister Monte Solberg, who said the report "was a wake-up call", said victims would be given temporary residence permits valid for 120 days and were eligible for health-care benefits. At the end of that period they could either return to their home country or apply for another permit valid for up to five years. New government revisits visas for exotic
dancers Hannah James, The Online Reporter, www.fims.uwo.ca/olr/feb2206/trafficking.html [accessed 27 January 2011] The new application
stipulates changes to the employment contracts, making work in Terry Vanderheyden, LifeSiteNews, www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2006/mar/06030209 [accessed 27 January 2011] Of the countries
evaluated: Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the United
Kingdom and the United States, only Canada and the UK failed to meet their
obligations to protect victims under the United Nations Trafficking Protocol
and international best practices. Child-sex ring uncovered in Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC News,
November 2, 2005 www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/11/02/child-sex-051102.html [accessed 27 January 2011] Sgt. Kelly Dennison
said about 20 girls – aged 12 to 17 – were sold into prostitution. Dennison said the other children younger
than age 12, including a baby of only 18 months, weren't necessarily forced
to perform sexual acts but may have been exposed to them because they lived
in the houses where they were taking place. MP tears strip off Liberals, Feds continue
to allow exploitation, Tory says whatsakyer.mu.nu/archives/2005_11.php [accessed 27 January 2011] [scroll down to
November 02, 2005] Diane Ablonczy
accused the government of misleading Canadians last year when it claimed to
be "canceling" the controversial policy of issuing temporary work
permits to exotic dancers based on a labor market opinion from the Human
Resources department. But the
"sordid truth" is that the welcome mat is still rolled out to
foreign strippers, she told the House, citing a Sun story over the weekend. Aboriginal women fair game for predators
amid public indifference Jim Bronskill and Sue Bailey, The Brooks
Bulletin, www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1499/a05.html?212 [accessed 27 January 2011] Untold scores of society's
most vulnerable members - young native women - have gone missing across the
country only to be forsaken by a jaded justice system and neglectful media.
The death and disappearance of aboriginal women has emerged as an alarming
nationwide pattern, from western serial murders to little-known Atlantic
vanishings. Grim statistics and anecdotal evidence compiled by The Canadian
Press suggest public apathy has allowed predators to stalk native victims
with near impunity. Human trafficking charges laid in B.C. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC News,
April 14, 2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] A man in The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/canada.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Most of the
Chinese, Korean, Malaysian, and Thai women found in raids on brothels,
massage parlors, and karaoke bars across the country have told police that an
agent in their home countries charged them for transportation to Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/canada [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide [accessed 27 January 2011] Hundreds of foreigners lured in sex trade:
RCMP Canadian Press, www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20041207/sex_trade_041206/ [accessed 27 January 2011] At least 600
foreign women and girls are coerced into joining the Canadian sex trade each
year by human traffickers, says a newly declassified RCMP report. As many as 2,200 other newcomers are
smuggled into the United States from Canada to toil in brothels, sweatshops,
domestic jobs or construction work, estimates the intelligence assessment
obtained by The Canadian Press. And
the RCMP says the numbers may represent just the tip of the proverbial
iceberg, as it is widely believed only one in 10 victims of trafficking
report the crime to police. Florangela Davila, 209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1171283/posts [accessed 27 January 2011] A new report says Trapped in the traffic Elaine Pearson, New Internationalist -
Issue 337, August 2001 www.newint.org/features/2001/08/05/trapped/ [accessed 27 January 2011] Several years ago S.F. parlor hit in crackdown on sex slave
trade Phillip Matier & Andrew Ross, San
Francisco Chronicle, October 25, 2004 [accessed 28 August 2012] The two later told
investigators they had been smuggled from The two women said
they briefly escaped in August, but were soon found by the manager and two
other workers, returned to King's and beaten. Trafficking in Persons Department of Justice, Canada, 2007-06-14 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] LINKS ·
Research / Academic ·
Canadian non-governmental organisations ·
Intergovernmental organisations and initiatives ·
International non-governmental organisations ·
Federal departments and agencies members of the
Interdepartmental Working Group on Trafficking in Persons (IWGTIP) Helping Honduran Children Return Home At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 4 September 2011] With support from
the Human Security Program, the International Organization for Migration and
Covenant House (Casa Alianza) have begun a pilot project that aims to
repatriate and re-integrate Honduran street children who have been trafficked
to Canada and the United States. Embattled minister promises changes to
exotic dancer rules Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC News,
November 25, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] "When you talk
to the women who are so desperate for a way out of [their] countries they say,
'Please keep this program because it does provide us with an opportunity – as
much as we may not like it or approve of it – a chance of a better
life.'" Sgro says once the women
get to LifeSiteNews.com, www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/dec/04120102.html [accessed 27 January 2011] Today in the House
of Commons, Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan announced an abrupt end to
the Canadian scheme of arranging visas specifically for exotic dancers, or
strippers, which are used to fill positions at strip clubs in [accessed 27 January 2011] Other newly
released information from the Penn study shows that Trafficking in Women in Louise Langevin & Marie-Claire Belleau,
Status of Women www.docstoc.com/docs/2369049/Trafficking-in-Women-in-Canada-A-Critical-Analysis-of-the-Legal [accessed 27 January 2011] This report
analyses the legal framework governing the hiring of immigrant live-in
caregivers and the legal status of mail-order brides who immigrate to All
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