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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Chile.htm
Chile is a source, transit, and destination
country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of
commercial sexual exploitation and labor trafficking. Within the country,
many victims are Chilean women and girls who respond to false job offers and
subsequently are subjected to forced prostitution. Chilean women and girls
also are trafficked for involuntary prostitution and labor exploitation to
neighboring countries such as Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia, as well as
Western Europe. Foreign women from Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and
Paraguay, in addition to Asian countries such as China, are lured to Chile
with fraudulent job offers and subsequently coerced into prostitution or
domestic servitude. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June,
2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** iAbolish Country Report: iabolish.org | The American Anti-Slavery
Group www.iabolish.org/slavery_today/country_reports/cl.html [Last access date unavailable] COUNTRY BACKGROUND - Slavery has a
legacy in THE PROCESS OF
ENSLAVEMENT
- Chile is a destination for Bolivian minors who are lured into the country
under false pretenses and promises of higher wages in a country economically
more stable than Bolivia. Chile is also a country where human traffickers
facilitate and promote the movement of people from Asia to American cities,
such as Los Angeles and Houston, for the purposes of debt bondage and sexual
exploitation. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/chile.htm [accessed 28 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In 2003, the Government of Chile estimated that
there were approximately 3,700 children involved in some form of commercial
sexual exploitation. Children are also
trafficked internally for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Human Rights Reports
» 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61720.htm [accessed 28 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Within the country victims reportedly were trafficked from rural areas to
such urban areas as Anecdotal reports
suggested that young women were the primary targets for trafficking to other
countries. Traffickers reportedly used newspaper advertisements for models
and product promoters to lure girls, ages 11 to 17, into prostitution. Law
enforcement agencies indicated that traffickers looking for children also
targeted economically disadvantaged families, arguing to the parents that
they were giving the child an opportunity for a better life. Men from
less-affluent rural areas may be recruited into abusive labor situations in
deep-sea fishing or ranching operations. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1
February 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/chile2002.html [accessed 28 January 2011] [49] The Committee,
while noting that the State party has ratified ILO Conventions No. 138
concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment and No. 182 concerning the
Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of
Child Labour and increased the minimum age for admission to work to 15,
expresses its deep concern at the large number of children, including those
under 15, who are exploited economically, especially in the farming sector,
and the large number who have to leave school because they cannot conciliate
work and school. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/chile [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide [accessed 28 January 2011] Library of Congress Call Number F3058
.C5223 1994 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cltoc.html [accessed 28 January 2011] iAbolish Country Report: iabolish.org | The American Anti-Slavery
Group www.iabolish.org/slavery_today/country_reports/cl.html [Last access date unavailable] COUNTRY BACKGROUND - Slavery has a legacy
in THE PROCESS OF
ENSLAVEMENT
- Chile is a destination for Bolivian minors who are lured into the country under
false pretenses and promises of higher wages in a country economically more
stable than Bolivia. Chile is also a country where human traffickers
facilitate and promote the movement of people from Asia to American cities,
such as Los Angeles and Houston, for the purposes of debt bondage and sexual
exploitation. The Protection Project - Human Rights
Reports of The The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/chile.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - One study
reported that 50 percent of foreign women working in eastern A Chilean woman was
allegedly involved in a network that was suspected of trafficking young
Chilean women for prostitution in Japan.
Known as the “Chilean Geisha,” she made a fortune with her
best-selling memoirs, her music albums, and even a movie about her life.
Corporación La Morada, one of Chile’s leading women’s organizations, filed a
lawsuit against the “geisha” for trafficking in persons; in June 2004, the
government’s Council for the Defense of State joined the legal action against
her. Child trafficking projects in Central and
South America stopchildtrafficking.org, 01.06.2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] INVOLVING THE
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