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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Fiji.htm
Fiji is a source country for children
trafficked for the purposes of labor and commercial sexual exploitation, and
a destination country for women from the People’s Republic of China, Thailand
and India trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. Some
women from the P.R.C. and India who migrate voluntarily to Fiji for work have
been in the past and may still be coerced into forced labor in sweatshops.
Fijian boys and girls are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation by
family members, other Fijian citizens, foreign tourists, and sailors on
foreign fishing vessels. Staff at local hotels procure
underage girls for commercial sexual exploitation by guests, while taxi
drivers, nightclub staff, and relatives frequently act as facilitators. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full
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have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Fiji. Some of these links may lead to websites
that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false. No attempt
has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** The Protection
Project - The
www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/fiji.doc [Last
accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING
INFRASTRUCTURE
– FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - The report also
warned that the sale of children in Fiji could become a problem if loopholes
in the adoption law were not amended. Although baby and child trafficking
from Fiji appeared to be rare, the potential existed for such trafficking to
increase. There have been a number of cases of older children being taken
from their parents to live in Australia and New Zealand. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2005 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2005/tda2005.pdf [accessed
10 November 2010] CHILD LABOR LAWS AND
ENFORCEMENT
- The worst forms of child labor may be prosecuted under different statutes
in Human Rights
Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78773.htm [accessed
5 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– A November 2005 law prohibits trafficking in persons, and there were no
substantiated reports of trafficking to or from the country during the year.
There were some reports of children trafficked within the country during the
year. Many observers cited poverty as the primary underlying reason for
sexual exploitation of children. The antitrafficking law provides for penalties of up to 20
years' imprisonment and fines up to $442,000 (F$750,000) for convicted
traffickers. The government did not
sponsor or provide assistance to any programs specifically to combat or
prevent trafficking in persons. Human
trade victims spared
Margaret
Wise, www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=156837 [accessed
5 February 2011] Victims of human
trafficking can rest assured that the Director of Public Prosecution will not
pursue cases against them. Instead
the DPP will use all its powers against human trafficking facilitators. The office of the
DPP is committed to entering a nolle prosequi against the victims of human trafficking who
have been mistakenly charged for unlawful possession of travel documents or
similar offences." The Trip to Trong & Rani tronie.myfundrazor.org/tronie-foundation/2006/10/trip-to-fiji.html [Last access date unavailable] Last June a team of
builders from the The Protection
Project - The
www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/fiji.doc [Last
accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING
INFRASTRUCTURE
– FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - The report also
warned that the sale of children in Fiji could become a problem if loopholes
in the adoption law were not amended. Although baby and child trafficking
from Fiji appeared to be rare, the potential existed for such trafficking to
increase. There have been a number of cases of older children being taken
from their parents to live in Australia and New Zealand. 3rd Meeting of the CSCAP Study Group on Human Trafficking Discovery Suites, Pasig City, The Philippines 8-9 July 2006 [PDF] Dr
Kate McMillan, [accessed
5 February 2011] EXPERT PRESENTATIONS - A second
presentation was given by Sean Evans, Law Enforcement Adviser from the
Pacific Island Forum Secretariat. He began by reporting that Niue is the only
Pacific Island country within the Forum to have ratified the Protocols to the
UN Convention on Transnational Crime. However, the Pacific Islands Forum has
also done a lot of work in developing model legislation, and a number of
countries have anti-trafficking legislation before their parliaments. Evans
illustrated the types of trafficking issues that are being seen in the
Pacific by reference to cases of deceptive recruiting from China into Palau,
of Thai women being forced into prostitution in Fiji, and women being forced into work at sweatshops in U.S.
Samoa and Fiji. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free 2009
Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/fiji [accessed 26 June 2012] All
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