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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of
the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Gambia.htm
The Gambia is a
source, transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked
for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Within
The Gambia, women and girls and, to a lesser extent, boys are trafficked for
commercial sexual exploitation, in particular to meet the demand for European
child sex tourists, as well as for domestic servitude. Anti-trafficking
activists report that in the last few years commercial sexual exploitation of
children has moved from large hotels to small guest houses and private homes
as a result of large hotels’ enforcement of a voluntary code of conduct
against child sex tourism. Boys are trafficked within the country for forced
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been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in the Gambia. 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 *** GHANA-GAMBIA: Sex slave children trafficked
by Ghanaian fishermen Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=48765 [accessed 5 September 2011] According to the
Gambian National Intelligence Agency, the girls were smuggled into the
country without official papers to work as sex slaves for their Ghanaian
masters. Ceesay confirmed this. She
said the girls were forced to “satisfy the sexual desires of older men” and
some were working full-time as prostitutes within the 5,000-strong Ghanaian
community. The Gambian
authorities said that the girls were also made to work long hours smoking
fish and selling gari, a popular Ghanaian staple made from cassava. Some boys
smuggled into the ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/gambia.htm [accessed 6 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Child trafficking is also a problem. As a transit
and destination country, the Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61571.htm [accessed 6 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Most trafficking victims were forced into prostitution and/or begging; a
few became domestic servants. Trafficking victims mostly came from
conflict-ravaged countries, such as Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
- 2001 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
12 October 2001 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/591a51d686b9a0dcc1256aed0044ea6a?OpenDocument [accessed 6 February 2011] [62] In light of
the current economic situation and the increasing number of school drop-outs,
the Committee is concerned about the large number of children engaged in
labor and the lack of information and adequate data on the situation of child
labor and economic exploitation within the State party. The Committee also
notes with concern that there is no legal minimum age for employment in
accordance with ILO Convention No. 138 concerning Minimum Age for Admission
to Employment. Grave concern is expressed about the increasing number of
child laborers, including domestic servants. The Protection Project - The The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/gambia.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Nigerian girls have
been lured to The Gambia with promises of legitimate jobs, but instead the
girls end up working in bars and are forced to provide sexual services to
customers. Children are taken from CAUTION … This link may pose a threat to
your PC … www.iccle.org/newsletter_children/0508/index.php3#7 [accessed 11 November 2010] The problem of
trafficking in children in The Gambia is underreported and this can be
attributed to lack of awareness of the general public of what trafficking is,
how it is done, mode/type and who are involved. The first case of child trafficking that
was reported to the Department of Social Welfare was the High human trafficking profits increases
practice in Ghana www.modernghana.com/news/124311/1/high-human-trafficking-profits-increases-practice-.html [accessed 6 February 2011] Statistics from the
United Nationa’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) indicated that human trafficking
was rated the World’s third most profitable illicit business venture apart
from drugs and prostitution.
Subsequently, the number of children trafficked from Afram Plains in
the Eastern, Yeji in the Brong Ahafo, and Atitekpo in the Volta Regions
countries such as The Gambia and Alieu Badara Mansaray, The Daily Observer ( www.ginsc.net/main.php?option=view_article&mode=0&article=3059&lang=ge [accessed 6 February 2011] The governement did
even better in opening a shelter in Human Trafficking, A Serious Crime -
Says Dr Henry Carrol Alhagie Mbye & Yusupha Jallow, The Point
Newspaper, 20 December 2006 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 5 September 2011] According to Dr
Carrol, as far as the Laws of The Gambia are concerned, there is presently no
law on our Statute Books which prohibits the trafficking of adult
persons. He therefore expressed the urgent need for the Gambia
Government to expeditiously pass the required legislation in the National
Assembly, with a certificate of urgency, to combat this fast growing menace. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 5 Civil Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/gambia [accessed 26 June 2012] The State of Gambian Children Ejatou Jallow, The Independent ( beta.globalmarch.org/clns/clns-apr-2004-details.php#5-3 [accessed 30 August 2012] The Gambian child
today like many other children on the African continent is faced with so many
difficulties such that it is very difficult to determine the extent of their
predicament. Gambian children are faced with problems such as child labour,
child trafficking, child exploitation, child sexual abuse to name a few. GHANA-GAMBIA: Sex slave children trafficked
by Ghanaian fishermen Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=48765 [accessed 5 September 2011] According to the
Gambian National Intelligence Agency, the girls were smuggled into the
country without official papers to work as sex slaves for their Ghanaian
masters. Ceesay confirmed this. She
said the girls were forced to “satisfy the sexual desires of older men” and
some were working full-time as prostitutes within the 5,000-strong Ghanaian
community. The Gambian
authorities said that the girls were also made to work long hours smoking
fish and selling gari, a popular Ghanaian staple made from cassava. Some boys
smuggled into the Report For The WTO General Council Review
Of The Trade Policies Of International confederation of Free Trade
Unions ICFTU, www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991218932&Language=EN [accessed 6 February 2011] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - All
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