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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/France.htm
France is a
destination country for women and girls trafficked for the purposes of sexual
exploitation from Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Nigeria, Sierra Leone,
Cameroon, and Malaysia and other Asian countries. Men, women and children
continued to be trafficked for the purposes of forced labor, including
domestic servitude, many from Africa. Often their “employers” are diplomats
who enjoy diplomatic immunity. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Romanian Premier Interviewed in 'Le Monde' Radio Free Europe/Radio www.hri.org/news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-08-05.rferl.html#69 [accessed 5 February 2011] [69] ROMANIAN
PREMIER INTERVIEWED IN 'LE MONDE' - Prime Minister Adrian Nastase said in an interview to the French daily "Le
Monde" on 2 August that Romania finds itself in an "extremely
delicate and difficult situation" as a result of the Romany criminal
networks allegedly engaging in human trafficking and forcing handicapped
children into begging in France. UN expert urges France, Xinhua News Agency, [accessed 5 February 2011] Some members of the
French NGO, named Arche de Zoe, were arrested in ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61648.htm [accessed 5 February 2011] CHILDREN
- In
October authorities arrested 15 persons and rescued 7 babies in connection
with the baby trafficking ring discovered in 2004, and five persons were
arrested. A Roma family in TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– In 2003 police arrested 67 adults in a Roma encampment outside Paris and
charged them with organizing sexual enslavement of Roma children who were
kidnapped from Romania, brought to the country, raped to make them obey, and
sent out on the streets of Paris and its suburbs to steal and prostitute
themselves. According to press reports, the children were forced to earn $240
(200 euros) a day or face severe physical punishment. The child‑traffickers
remained in jail awaiting trial at the end of the year. Police estimated
that 90 percent of the 15 thousand to 18 thousand female prostitutes working
in the country were trafficking victims, and that 3 thousand to 8 thousand
children were forced into prostitution and labor, including begging. Traffickers used
various methods to recruit and retain victims including force, fraud, confiscating
the victim's identification papers, isolating him or her culturally, and
abusing him or her physically or psychologically. Some victims came to the
country willing to work as prostitutes, not knowing they were going to become
trafficking victims. Traffickers kidnapped or "bought" some women
and girls and sold them to Balkans-based prostitution networks, which
smuggled the victims into the country. NGOs and police characterized the bulk
of traffickers in the country as "micro-trafficking networks" that
included both citizens and foreigners. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
30 June 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/france2004.html [accessed 5 February 2011] [52] The Committee
welcomes the legislative and other efforts aimed at providing protection of
children from economic exploitation. However, the Committee is concerned that
illegal networks of forced labor continue to operate and that foreign
children fall victims to networks that are not countered vigorously enough. [54] The Committee
notes that, following the World Congress against Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children in Conference puts focus on human trafficking,
fastest growing criminal industry United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees - UNHCR, [accessed 5 February 2011] Government
officials, judiciary members, police officers and humanitarian aid workers
have expressed concern, during a conference in northern The UN refugee
agency, which co-organized last Thursday's gathering in "We are
particularly worried about the unaccompanied children who find themselves in
this situation and who are particularly vulnerable to exploitation. It is
very difficult to keep track of them and we don't know what happens to them
once they leave UN expert urges France, Xinhua News Agency, [accessed 5 February 2011] Some members of the
French NGO, named Arche de Zoe, were arrested in Police arrest ten Bulgarians for human
trafficking to France Agence France-Presse AFP, April 20 2007 www.asser.nl/default.aspx?site_id=8&level1=10790&level2=10850&level3=&textid=29558 [accessed 31 August 2011] Ten Bulgarians
involved in trafficking women to Between 2002 and
2005, the group transferred at least 105 Bulgarian girls to France and forced
them to work as prostitutes, Ivanova said. Bulgaria, France Crash Human Trafficking
Channel FACE2FACE At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 5 September 2011] A channel for
traffic in people to Police in
Bulgaria's Russe and French Marseille acted in
close cooperation in crushing the channel. Six people were questioned in the
Bulgarian city and 5 homes were searched. A total of 20 cell phones, many
personal belongings as well as bank transfers documents were confiscated
during the search. 65 convicted in French child abuse trial Jon Henley in www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jul/28/france.jonhenley [accessed 5 February 2011] Key figures in the
largest child abuse trial ever held in Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/france [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/france [accessed 5 February 2011] Domestic slavery: servitude, au pairs and
mail-order brides - Report Rapporteur: Mr
Giuseppe Gaburro, Italy, Group of the European
People’s Party, Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men, Doc.
10144, 19 April 2004 assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/doc04/EDOC10144.htm [accessed 5 February 2011] B. DOMESTIC SLAVERY
AND SERVITUDE 11. In France
alone, the CCEM has taken up the cases of over 400 victims of domestic
slavery since its creation in 1994. RIGHTS OF THE CHILD - Report submitted by
Juan Miguel Petit, Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography - Addendum - Mission to France, 25-29
November 2002 [PDF] UN Economic and Social Council,
E/CN.4/2004/9/Add.1, 14 October 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/cbba1e5f4208f627c1256df7002f3b5a/$FILE/G0316328.pdf [accessed 5 February 2011] SUMMARY - The report focuses
on the sale of children in the context of trafficking of children and child
prostitution, and on child pornography and its links with domestic child
sexual abuse. Concerning the sale of
children, trafficking and child prostitution, the report relates information
presented to the Special Rapporteur by the Children’s Ombudsman (Défenseure des enfants), the
police, NGOs, as well as government ministries. According to this information, children are
being trafficked into France primarily from Eastern Europe, notably Romania,
and from West Africa, but also from Asia including such countries as
India and China. Many, if not most, of
these children are under the control of trafficking networks and are forced
into prostitution. The Government of
France is starting to work with the authorities of the countries concerned,
in particular with Romania with which it signed a bilateral agreement in 2001
with respect to returning children. V. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 73. Children are
entering or travelling through France for the purposes of theft, begging and
prostitution. Many of them are
trafficked by force while others travel of their own volition - some later
becoming caught up in trafficking networks.
The majority of these children come from Eastern Europe - notably
Romania - and from West Africa. Romanian Premier Interviewed in 'Le Monde' Radio Free Europe/Radio www.hri.org/news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-08-05.rferl.html#69 [accessed 5 February 2011] [69] ROMANIAN
PREMIER INTERVIEWED IN 'LE MONDE' - Prime Minister Adrian Nastase said in an interview to the French daily "Le
Monde" on 2 August that Romania finds itself in an "extremely
delicate and difficult situation" as a result of the Romany criminal
networks allegedly engaging in human trafficking and forcing handicapped
children into begging in France. All
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