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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery The Central African Republic [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The former French
colony of Ubangi-Shari became the The Central African Republic (C.A.R.) 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, ambulant vending, and forced agricultural,
mine, market and restaurant labor. To a lesser extent, children are
trafficked from the C.A.R. to Cameroon, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic
of Congo, for the same purposes listed above. Children may also be trafficked
from Rwanda to the C.A.R. In addition, rebels conscript children into armed
forces within the country. In February and March 2007, a rebel group,
possibly the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army, attacked villages in
southeastern C.A.R. and abducted men, women, and children for forced labor as
porters, soldiers, and sexual slaves. Men and women Pygmies, unable to
survive as hunters and gatherers because of depleted forests, are subjected
to forced agricultural labor by Central African villagers. Authorities in the
C.A.R. have a limited awareness of trafficking, and none of the nation’s
young, but developing, civil society organizations has an anti-trafficking
focus. No comprehensive trafficking studies have been conducted and little
concrete data exists. However, preliminary findings of a 2007
UNICEF-Government of the C.A.R. study on violence linked to child labor
reveal that abusive child labor practices are widespread. In addition, a 2005
UNICEF study on child sexual exploitation found over 40 sex trafficking cases
in Bangui and four provinces. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report,
June, 2008 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Crime & Society - Comparative Criminology tour of the World - Central African Republic 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 Europe for adoption. One of the cases reportedly involved the implicit cooperation of government authorities. ***
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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are trafficked to the Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 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) - 2000 [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 - Central African Republic [DOC] 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 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 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). US points to Nigerian
trafficking1 Victims are trafficked for
domestic servitude, street hawking, agricultural labor, and sexual
exploitation. Internationally, they
are trafficked to the Central African
Republic, Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 5 Civil Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide 19. In the Central African Republic,
the Special Rapporteur has received disconcerting information about the
practice of families marrying their daughters as young as 11 or 12, for
financial gain, to older husbands. The prevalence of such traditional
practices, including the trokosi practice in Ghana, already mentioned in
previous reports, is a matter of concern. 1. The linked
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