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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/DominicanRepublic.htm
The Dominican Republic is a source,
transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the
purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Dominican women
are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation to Argentina, Australia,
Brazil, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Panama,
Slovenia, Suriname, Switzerland, Turkey, and Venezuela. A significant number
of women, boys, and girls are trafficked within the country for forced
prostitution and domestic servitude. In some cases, parents push children
into prostitution to help support the family. [full country
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Haitian Children Sold as Slave Laborers and
Prostitutes Gary Younge in At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] On market day in Dajabón, a bustling Dominican town on the Haitian border,
you can pick up many bargains if you know where to look. You can haggle the
price of a live chicken down to 40 pesos (72p); wrestle 10lb of macaroni from
60 to 50 pesos; and, with some discreet inquiries, buy a Haitian child for
the equivalent of £54.22. There is a thriving trade in Haitian children in the Dominican Republic, where they are mostly used for domestic service, agricultural work or prostitution. - htcp ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/dominican-republic.htm [accessed 2 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - There are reports that women and children are
trafficked to, from, and within the Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61725.htm [accessed 2 February 2011] NATIONAL/RACIAL/ETHNIC
MINORITIES - The IOM estimated that approximately 650
thousand Haitian immigrants--or 7.5 percent of the country's
population--lived in shantytowns or sugarcane work camps known as bateyes, which were harsh environments with limited or no
electricity, usually no running water, and no adequate schooling. Although
some Haitians were brought to the country specifically to work in sugarcane
camps, many had no documentation. Human rights NGOs, the Catholic Church, and
activists described Haitian living conditions in bateyes
as modern-day slavery. TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated that 50
thousand Dominican women worked in prostitution around the world and of these
women, one third were victims of trafficking. Women 18 to 25
years of age were at the highest risk of being trafficked. Many victims were
uneducated single mothers desperate to improve the living conditions of their
children. NGOs estimated that
there were hundreds of alien smuggling and trafficking rings operating within
the country. According to the Dominican tour operators are questioned for
human trafficking DominicanToday, [accessed 2 February 2011] The Justice
Ministry’s People Trafficking Department director said yesterday that
it investigates several tour operators accused of organizing group trips to
Europe, the Middle East and South America, but who return to the country
alone. 30,000 Haitian
children smuggled annually Nov 8, 2005 -- Source: english.peopledaily.com.cn/200511/08/eng20051108_219788.html [accessed 2 February 2011] Around 30,000
Haitian children are illegally smuggled into the Haitian Children Sold as Slave Laborers and
Prostitutes Gary Younge in At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] On market day in Dajabón, a bustling Dominican town on the Haitian border,
you can pick up many bargains if you know where to look. You can haggle the
price of a live chicken down to 40 pesos (72p); wrestle 10lb of macaroni from
60 to 50 pesos; and, with some discreet inquiries, buy a Haitian child for
the equivalent of £54.22. There is a thriving trade in Haitian children in the Dominican Republic, where they are mostly used for domestic service, agricultural work or prostitution. - htcp Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 2 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/dominican-republic [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/americas/dominican-republic [accessed 2 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number F1934 .D64 2001 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/dotoc.html [accessed 2 February 2011] Protection Project - Country Report [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/dominican.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Dominican women
who were trafficked to In February 2002, a
woman from the Dominican Republic was jailed for 5 years in Costa Rica for
trafficking young Dominican girls to Costa Rica, where they were sexually
exploited. She and her business partner, a Dominican man, would offer young
girls in the Dominican Republic a job as a waitress or in a hotel in Costa
Rica. Most of the victims were between 14 and 18 years of age. The girls
would then be flown from Santo Domingo to San José, where they would be
transported to the tourist town of Quepos (on the
Pacific coast) and to Siquirres (on the Atlantic
side) where they would be sexually exploited.
Haitian girls have
been trafficked along the border with the Dominican Republic, and thousands
of Haitian children reportedly have been trafficked into the Dominican
Republic, where they are forced to beg in the streets or perform manual
labor. One study revealed
that the majority of Dominican female migrants in Argentina were 20 to 39
years of age and almost 90 percent had children, most of whom were left in
the Dominican Republic in the care of others. The majority of women paid
US$2,000 for the trip to Argentina, where they were promised work as domestic
helpers for US$500 to US$800 per month. More than 50 percent had been forced
into prostitution. Ending Modern Day Slavery: U.S. Efforts To
Combat Trafficking in Persons Paula J. Dobriansky,
Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, Remarks to the Northern
California World Affairs Council, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] The report has
already been successful in encouraging countries with trafficking problems to
take concrete steps. Last year, countries listed on tier three were
potentially subject to sanctions requiring the loss of most non-humanitarian
and non-trade-related assistance from the U.S. This could have meant the loss
of U.S. military aid, educational and cultural assistance, and support from
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. This approach yielded
results -- a number of countries on Tier 3 acted quickly once the report came
out. Belize, the Dominican Republic, Greece, Turkey,
and six other nations were reassessed as Tier 2 countries as a result of
their efforts after initially being placed on Tier 3. Human Rights Watch World Report 1989: Human Rights Watch World Report 1989 www.hrw.org/reports/1989/WR89/Dominica.htm [accessed 2 February 2011] The Annual jaunt offers Canadians a Third World
view Tony Gosgnach,
The Interim, May 2004 www.theinterim.com/2004/may/11annual.html [accessed 2 February 2011] In the Debt Bondage - Slavery Around the World [PDF] Development and Peace & Anti-Slavery
International, June 1999 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 4 September 2011] SUGAR CANE WORKERS
FROM Modern Slavery - Human bondage in Africa,
Asia, and the Dominican Republic Ricco Villanueva Siasoco, Pearson Education, publishing as Infoplease, April 18, 2001 www.infoplease.com/spot/slavery1.html [accessed 2 February 2011] CANE-CUTTERS IN THE Country Reports on Human Rights Practices:
Dominican Republic 2001 Click [here]
to connect to the article. Its URL is
not displayed because of its length [accessed 2 February 2011] 6f. Trafficking in
Persons The law prohibits trafficking in persons; however, trafficking in
women and children from, to, and within the country remains a serious
problem. Women 18 to 25 years of age are at the highest risk for being
trafficked. According to a report released in July by the International
Organization for Migration (IOM), principal destination countries are in
Europe and Latin America, including Spain, Italy, the Netherlands,
Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Belgium, Curacao, San Martin, Aruba, Panama,
Venezuela, and Argentina. Women are trafficked to the United States, although
in smaller numbers. Within the country, there is a serious problem of
prostitution of minors, primarily in the tourist areas (see Section 5). Women
and children also are trafficked from Haiti and often are forced to beg in
the streets. Poor Haitian and
Dominican parents sometimes arrange for more prosperous Dominican families to
"adopt" their children, in exchange for money or goods; such
children often are expected to work long hours and are vulnerable to sexual
abuse (see Section 5). Trafficking in Women from the Migration Information Programme,
Budapest 1054, Hungary, International Organization for Migration (IOM), 1995 www.oas.org/atip/country%20specific/TIP%20DR%20IOM%20REPORT.pdf [accessed 2 February 2011] THE PROBLEM - Sources in the All
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