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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/CentralAfricanRep.htm
The Central African Republic (CAR) is a source, transit,
and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the
purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. The majority of victims are
children trafficked within the country for sexual exploitation, domestic
servitude, forced ambulant vending, and forced agricultural, mine, market,
and restaurant labor. In addition, rebels conscript children into armed forces
in the northwestern and northeastern regions of the country. Unable to
survive as hunters and gatherers because of depleted forests, Pygmies are
subjected to forced agricultural labor by Central African villagers. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Crime & Society - Comparative Criminology tour
of the World - Central African Republic Dr. Robert Winslow, www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/africa/central_african_republic.html [accessed 28 January 2011] TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS- The indigenous Ba'Aka often are coerced into agricultural, domestic, and
other types of labor within the country. The Ba'Aka
often are considered to be the slaves of other local ethnic groups, and
subjected to wages far below those prescribed by the labor code. Additionally
there have been credible reports of three cases in which persons obtained a Ba'Aka child by deception and subsequently sent the child
to ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/central-african-republic.htm [accessed 28 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are trafficked to the Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61560.htm [accessed 28 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – There
was strong agreement among NGOs and government officials that trafficking in
persons was not widespread. Trafficking was confined primarily to children, both girls
and boys, who were primarily orphans. During the year there were reports that
these children were forced into domestic servitude and commercial labor
activities, such as street vending and agricultural work. In recent years,
there were reports that children were brought in by members of the foreign
Muslim community from Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 October 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/centralafrica2000.html [accessed 28 January 2011] [50] The Committee joins the State
party in expressing deep concern at the problems suffered by children in the context
of domestic adoption, inter-country adoption and guardianship proceedings,
and in particular at reports of the ill-treatment of children by guardians [84] The Committee is concerned
that children may be at risk of being sold or made to engage in prostitution. The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/car.doc [Last accessed 2009] FACTORS
THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - Deterioration of living
conditions in rural areas and the search for unskilled and docile workers are
blamed for trafficking in children from the Crime & Society - Comparative Criminology tour
of the World - Central African Republic Dr. Robert Winslow, www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/africa/central_african_republic.html [accessed 28 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS- The
indigenous Ba'Aka often are coerced into
agricultural, domestic, and other types of labor within the country. The Ba'Aka often are considered to be the slaves of other
local ethnic groups, and subjected to wages far below those prescribed by the
labor code. Additionally there have been credible reports of three cases in
which persons obtained a Ba'Aka child by deception
and subsequently sent the child to Forced labor, human trafficking,
slavery haunt us still International Labour Organization (ILO), World of Work No.
39, www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/magazine/39/human.htm [accessed 28 January 2011] While there is universal consensus
on the definition of forced labor (essentially work performed under
compulsion and subject to a penalty), some of the forms it takes are still
sources of policy debate. Among the most contentious issues are those
involving compulsory participation of citizens in public works in the context
of economic development, a practice which prevails in a number of Asian
countries (including Vietnam) and African countries (Central African Republic, Sierra Leone and Tanzania). At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 August 2011] Victims are trafficked for
domestic servitude, street hawking, agricultural labor, and sexual
exploitation. Internationally, they
are trafficked to the Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 5 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7583 [accessed 28 January 2011] Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide www.hrw.org/africa/central-african-republic [accessed 28 January 2011] Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Children - Sale
of children, child prostitution and child pornography - Note by the
Secretary-General Ms. Ofelia Calcetas-Santos,
Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography, UN General Assembly, Fifty-second
session, Agenda item 108, 16 October 1997 www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/0/cb9d9d07045a9d5380256679003c4e9c?OpenDocument [accessed 28 January 2011] 19. In the All material used herein
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