Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Poverty drives the unsuspecting poor into the
hands of traffickers Published reports & articles from 2000 to 2025 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Djibouti.htm
Djibouti is a
source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked
for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and domestic servitude.
Large numbers of voluntary economic migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia pass
illegally through Djibouti en route to Yemen and
other locations in the Middle East; among this group, a small number of women
and girls may fall victim to involuntary domestic servitude or commercial
sexual exploitation after reaching Djibouti City or the Ethiopia-Djibouti
trucking corridor. Others fall victim to human trafficking after reaching
their destinations in the Middle East. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 Check
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Protection Project
- The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/djibouti.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Displaced women
and children fleeing conflict between Child prostitution
is on the rise in Djibouti. A government study, conducted in conjunction with
UNICEF, found that 73.3 percent of street children were Ethiopian and that
over a quarter of these children were exploited in the commercial sex
industry. Most are girls from the Dire-Dawa region of Ethiopia. They are
often brought by other girls to brothels, where they are forced into
prostitution. In Djibouti’s most famous sex venue, Rue d’Ethiopie, children
age 11 to 16 are forced to engage in prostitution. - htsccp ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Djibouti U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/djibouti/
[accessed 4 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR Citizens and
migrants were vulnerable to forced labor, including as domestic servants in
Djibouti City and along the Ethiopia-Djibouti trucking corridor. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT According to the
law, children are strictly prohibited in domestic jobs, hotels, and bars and
drinking places, with the exception of jobs related to catering only. Child
labor, however, including the worst forms, occurred throughout the country.
Children were engaged in the sale of the narcotic chat, which is legal.
Family-owned businesses such as restaurants and small shops employed children
during all hours. Children were involved in a range of activities such as
shining shoes, washing and guarding cars, selling items, working as domestic
servants, working in subsistence farming and with livestock, begging, and
other activities in the informal sector. Parents or other adult relatives
forced street children to work, including to beg. Children
were also coerced to commit petty crimes, such as theft. Children
experienced physical, chemical, and psychological hazards while working. In
2019 the Ministry of Labor quadrupled the size of its labor inspectorate from
five to 21 inspectors, and the country’s police chief created a Brigade for
Minors to handle crimes committed by minors as well as crimes committed
against minors. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/djibouti/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 8 July
2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Many residents have
difficulty finding employment in the formal sector, as the president and his
allies tightly control all large-scale economic activity, especially around
the military bases leased by foreign powers. Legal safeguards against
exploitative working conditions are poorly enforced; migrant workers and
refugees are especially vulnerable to abuse. A 2016 law on human trafficking
includes strong penalties for perpetrators, but authorities have struggled to
secure convictions and to effectively identify and assist victims. 2017 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2018 www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ilab/ChildLaborReport_Book.pdf [accessed 17 April
2019] www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2017/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 27 April
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 345] Limited evidence
suggests that children, including undocumented migrant girls, are vulnerable
to commercial sexual exploitation in Djibouti City and the Ethiopia-Djibouti
trucking corridor. (11; 15) Girls from poor Djiboutian families may also
engage in commercial sexual exploitation. (2). Ethiopia is a source
country for Human Trafficking and Sex Exploitation Trafficking in
Persons Report, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, June
2006 ovcs.blogspot.com/2008/01/ethiopia-is-source-country-for-human.html [accessed 1 February
2011] Trafficking in
Persons Report - 2005 Trafficking in
Persons Report, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, June 3,
2005 www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/46617.htm [accessed 1 February
2011] VI. SPECIAL CASES - ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** 2017 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 20 April 2018 www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2017/af/276993.htm
[accessed 21 March
2019] www.state.gov/reports/2017-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/djibouti/ [accessed 21 March
2019] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR Citizens and
migrants were vulnerable to conditions of forced labor, including as domestic
servants in Djibouti City and along the Ethiopia-Djibouti trucking corridor.
Parents or other adult relatives forced street children, including citizen
children, to beg. Children also were vulnerable to forced labor as domestic
servants and coerced to commit petty crimes, such as theft. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT Child labor,
including the worst forms of child labor, existed throughout the country.
Children were engaged in the sale of the narcotic khat,
legal under local law. Family-owned businesses such as restaurants and small
shops employed children at all hours. Children were involved in a range of
activities such as shining shoes, washing and guarding cars, selling items,
working as domestic servants, working in subsistence farming and with
livestock, begging, and other activities in the informal sector. Children of
both sexes worked as domestic servants. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61566.htm [accessed 8 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The law does not prohibit trafficking in persons. Although there were no
known reports of persons being trafficked to, from, or within the country,
observers believed the country to be a destination for individuals trafficked
from The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/djibouti.htm [accessed 1 February
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - The Labor Code sets the minimum age for employment at
14 years. Night work is prohibited for
children under the age of 16, and the hours and conditions of work for
children are regulated. Forced and
bonded labor of children is also prohibited. All material
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