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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Chad.htm
Chad is a source, transit, and destination
country for children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and
commercial sexual exploitation. Most trafficked children are subjected to
domestic servitude, forced begging, forced labor in cattle herding, fishing,
and street vending, and for commercial sexual exploitation. A 2005 UNICEF
study on child domestic workers, including those in domestic servitude, in
Ndjamena found that 62 percent were boys. Young girls sold or forced into
marriage are forced by their husbands into domestic servitude and
agricultural labor. Chadian children are also trafficked to Cameroon, the
Central African Republic, and Nigeria for cattle herding. Children may also
be trafficked from Cameroon and the Central African Republic to Chad’s oil
producing regions for sexual exploitation.
- U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/chad.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
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Children from Chadian children
trafficked to the Children are
trafficked internally within the country. One farmer in the south of Young girls known
as tallanis, who sell foodstuffs on city streets, are sometimes kidnapped for
occult practices or sexual exploitation or both. Also, poor families from
rural areas send their children to live with relatives or friends in the city
so that the children may be educated. Often the girls are financially or
sexually exploited. Girls are also brought from the countryside to work in
drinking establishments, where clients sexually exploited them. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/chad.htm [accessed 28 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - There are reports of child trafficking in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61561.htm [accessed 28 January 2011] CHILDREN - Several human
rights organizations reported on the problem of the mahadjir children who
attended certain Islamic schools and were forced by their teachers to beg for
food and money. There was no reliable estimate of the number of mahadjir
children. During the year the High Islamic Council held a public meeting with
imams from around the country to discuss the treatment of children under
Islam. TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Although the law prohibits trafficking in persons, persons were trafficked
within the country. Children were trafficked for forced labor, primarily as
herders or domestic workers (see section 6.d.). A 2004 NGO survey of 500
child herders who had been returned to their parents indicated that there may
have been between 1,500 and 2 thousand children between 6 and 17 years of age
who had been trafficked as child herders. Local authorities, religious
groups, and NGOs rescued 256 children in 2004-05. The government
arrested traffickers during the year. In May a citizen was arrested in SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] There were cases in some southern regions in which families sold their
children. In some areas local authorities fined parents caught selling their
children into forced labor. To avoid detection, some families worked with
intermediaries to pass children from families to the farm owners. During the year
there were reports that in the southern part of the country families
contracted out their children to Arab nomadic herders to help care for their
animals, and the children often were abused and returned with little
financial compensation for their work. There were also
credible reports that children were forced into slavery. According to a 2004
UN news service report, aid workers in the country estimated that families
have sold as many as two thousand children--some as young as eight--into a system
of slavery in which they worked as child cattle herders. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4
June 1999 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/chad1999.html [accessed 28 January 2011] [35] While taking
note of the existing awareness and political will regarding the problems
caused by the involvement of children in armed conflict, the Committee
remains seriously concerned about the lack of resources available to support
the rehabilitation and social reintegration of demobilized child soldiers.
The Committee is particularly concerned about the situation of traumatized or
permanently disabled former child soldiers and their lack of access to
compensation or other support services. The Committee recommends that the
State party ensure the enforcement of its legislation banning the recruitment
of children under 18 years. It also encourages the redoubling of efforts to
allocate the necessary resources, if necessary with international assistance,
to the rehabilitation and social reintegration of former child soldiers, and
in particular to provide compensation and support services to traumatized or
permanently disabled former child soldiers UN expert urges France, Mathaba, Nov. 7, 2007 -- Source: Xinhua,
Nov. 6, 2007 [accessed 28 January 2011] Some members of the
French NGO, named Arche de Zoe, were arrested in CHAD-SUDAN: Legal Framework a Hindrance in
'Child-Trafficking' Case Integrated Regional Information Networks
(IRIN), 1 ablefromwww.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=75096 [accessed 28 January 2011] Six members of the
group - arrested on 25 October - have been charged with abducting minors for
the purpose of changing their civil status (giving them new parents), a crime
that carries a penalty of five to 20 years of forced labour. Although the
information has not yet been verified, there is speculation in this case that
the children were willingly handed over, in which case abduction would be
difficult to prove, Ndiaye said.
Trafficking legislation usually encompasses the illegal recruitment of
children from "vulnerable" parents, who may agree to give up their
children because they cannot care for them, he said. A conviction in child trafficking also
allows authorities to seize any assets used in the commission of the crime,
Ndiaye said, which can deter future incidences. Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/chad.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
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Children from Chadian children
trafficked to the Children are
trafficked internally within the country. One farmer in the south of Young girls known
as tallanis, who sell foodstuffs on city streets, are sometimes kidnapped for
occult practices or sexual exploitation or both. Also, poor families from
rural areas send their children to live with relatives or friends in the city
so that the children may be educated. Often the girls are financially or
sexually exploited. Girls are also brought from the countryside to work in
drinking establishments, where clients sexually exploited them. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 7 Civil Liberties: 6 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/chad [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide [accessed 28 January 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DT546.422
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