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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century 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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have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in the ***
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 ILO study finds
forced labour and human trafficking on the rise International Labour
Organisation ILO News, Geneva, 25 May 2001 www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/news/WCMS_007842/lang--en/index.htm [accessed 28 August 2012] 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/report/freedom-world/2009/central-african-republic [accessed 26 June 2012] 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
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