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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/CostaRica.htm
Costa Rica is a source, transit, and
destination country for women and children trafficked for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation. To a lesser but increasing extent, Costa Rica
is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children
trafficked into forced labor, particularly in agriculture, construction,
restaurant work, the fishing industry, and as domestic servants. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons
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CAUTION: The following
links have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child smuggling is good business - official South African Press Association SAPA &
Agence France-Presse AFP, www.iol.co.za/news/world/child-smuggling-is-good-business-official-1.113611 [accessed 30 January 2011] ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/costa-rica.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The commercial sexual exploitation of children is a
continuing problem in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61722.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Although the law prohibits the trafficking of women and minors for the
purpose of prostitution or forced labor, there is no comprehensive
legislation to address all forms of trafficking. The lack of a comprehensive
anti-trafficking law inhibited the government's ability to prosecute and
convict traffickers, and prosecutors relied on several criminal statutes to
bring traffickers to justice. There were reports that persons were trafficked
to, from, and within the country, most often for commercial sexual
exploitation. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3
June 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/costarica2005.html [accessed 30 January 2011] [35] The Committee
welcomes the proposed amendment of the Adoption Act as a follow up to its
previous recommendation to review its legislation in order to bring it in
full compliance with article 21 of the Convention and the 1993 Hague
Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of
Inter-country Adoption. But it remains concerned that this bill is still
pending with the Legislative Assembly and that the practice of private or
direct adoption which results in cases of trafficking is still not
effectively prohibited. Child Trafficking Network Arrested in Claire www.costaricapages.com/blog/costa-rica-news/child-trafficking/671 [accessed 30 January 2011] At 6am this morning
the Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ) broke up another human
trafficking ring, which was dedicated exclusively to the trafficking of
minors less than 1 year of age. A total of 14 arrests were made,
including a female Family Judge who had been working in Liberia for 15 years
on cases including adoption of minors. Her computer and documents were
confiscated from the OIJ in Liberia to undergo investigation in San Jose. The judge was said
to be facilitating the sale of the minors who were obtained either illegally
or purchased from poor and indigenous families who did not want the children
for around $50 each, for a portion of the profits. They then sold the
children for an estimated $10,000. The group would contact pregnant
women in free clinics who could not afford the children and then have them
put up for adoption. Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/costa.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/costa-rica [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview by Human Rights Watch – Defending
Human Rights Worldwide www.hrw.org/americas/costa-rica [accessed 30 January 2011] Authorities Probe Possible
Child-Trafficking Network Tim Rogers, The Tico Times Online, Daily
Edition: At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 4 September 2011] Child Welfare Agency
(PANI) and judicial authorities yesterday continued to investigate a possible
international child-trafficking network operating out of Child smuggling is good business - official South African Press Association SAPA &
Agence France-Presse AFP, www.iol.co.za/news/world/child-smuggling-is-good-business-official-1.113611 [accessed 30 January 2011] Ana Isabel García, Manuel Barahona, Carlos
Castro & Enrique Gomáriz, GENPROM Working Paper No. 2, Series on Women
and Migration, Gender Promotion Programme, International Labour Office www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/documents/publication/wcms_117928.pdf [accessed 30 January 2011] [page 3] FOREWORD - Changing labour markets with
globalization have increased both opportunities and pressures for women to
migrate. The migration process and employment in a country of which they are
not nationals can enhance women’s earning opportunities, autonomy and
empowerment, and thereby change gender roles and responsibilities and
contribute to gender equality. But they also expose women to serious
violation of their human rights. Whether in the recruitment stage, the
journey or living and working in another country, women migrant workers,
especially those in irregular situations, are vulnerable to harassment,
intimidation or threats to themselves and their families, economic and sexual
exploitation, racial discriminatio n and xenophobia, poor working conditions,
increased health risks and other forms of abuse, including trafficking into
forced labour, debt bondage, involuntary servitude and situations of
captivity. All
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