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Guinea is a source,
transit and, to a lesser extent, a destination country for men, women, and
children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual
exploitation. The majority of victims are children, and internal trafficking
is more prevalent than transnational trafficking. Within the country, girls
are trafficked primarily for domestic servitude and sexual exploitation,
while boys are trafficked as forced beggars, street vendors, shoe shiners,
and laborers in gold and diamond mines as well as for forced agricultural
labor. Some Guinean men are also trafficked for agricultural labor within
Guinea. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 Check
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** UNICEF Press Centre,
Conakry/Geneva, 4 November 2003 www.unicef.org/media/media_15421.html [accessed 8 February
2011] UNICEF today said
that reports from border monitors and NGOs reveal that ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Guinea 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/guinea/
[accessed 8 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR Traffickers
exploited men, women, and children in forced labor in agriculture.
Traffickers exploited boys in forced labor in begging, mining, fishing, and
on coffee, cashew, and cocoa plantations. Some government entities and NGOs
alleged forced labor was most prevalent in the mining sector. Women and
children were the most vulnerable to trafficking (see section 7.c.). Migrant
laborers represented a small proportion of forced labor victims. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT The government did
not effectively enforce the law, and inspections were not adequate. Boys
frequently worked in the informal sectors of subsistence farming, small-scale
commerce, street vending, shining shoes, and mining.
Girls were subjected to domestic servitude domestically and abroad. Forced
child labor occurred primarily in the cashew, cocoa, coffee, gold, and
diamond sectors of the economy. Many children between ages five and 16 worked
10 to 15 hours a day in the diamond and gold mines for minimal compensation
and little food. Child laborers extracted, transported, and cleaned the
minerals. They operated in extreme conditions, lacked protective gear, did
not have access to water or electricity, and faced a constant threat of
disease. Many children did not attend school and could not contact their
parents, which may indicate forced labor. Many parents sent
their children to live with relatives or Quranic teachers while the children
attended school. Host families often required such children to perform
domestic or agricultural labor, or to sell water or shine shoes on the
streets. Some children were subjected to forced
begging. Commercial sexual
exploitation of children also occurred. Penalties were not commensurate with
similar crimes. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/guinea/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 28 April
2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? The 2016 criminal code
specifically criminalized trafficking in persons and debt bondage, but
reduced the minimum penalties for such crimes, and enforcement has been weak.
In some mining areas, child labor is a major issue. There are also cases of
women and children being trafficked for sexual exploitation to other parts of
West Africa as well as Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. 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 28 April
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 474] Children in Guinea
are trafficked domestically and abroad for forced labor and commercial sexual
exploitation. Some Guinean boys are subjected to forced labor in gold and
diamond mining, including in Senegal and Mali, while girls are exploited in
domestic work and commercial sexual exploitation in various West African and
Middle Eastern countries. (3; 4; 19; 23; 24; 5) Boys placed in the care
of Koranic schools in Guinea are sometimes forced by their teachers to beg on
the street or to work in fields, and must then surrender the money they have
earned to their teachers. (4; 11; 18; 24; 5) In addition, through the system
of confiage, parents who are unable to care for
their children send them to relatives or strangers who are expected to
provide food, shelter, and schooling to the children in exchange for
housework. In practice, some of these children receive care and an education,
while many become domestic workers and are victims of labor exploitation and
abuse. (25; 4; 23; 14; 25). The IRC in Guinea International Rescue
Committee IRC, 1 April 2009 www.rescue.org/where/guinea [accessed 8
September 2014] 1 April 2009
The International Rescue Committee has ended its program in Program Brings Hope
to Vulnerable Adolescent Girls in International Rescue
Committee IRC, N'Zerekore At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 5
September 2011] The IRC has
launched a program in eastern "The typical
girl is around sixteen years old, may be infected with HIV/AIDS, is
illiterate, has no permanent home and usually has at least one child
already," says Rebecca Winthrop, the IRC's education program manager.
"The program combines vocational training with counselling to help these
young women cope with their past experiences while developing new skills to
change their lives." Guinean Police
Arrest 35 Nigerian Girls En-route Sex Slavery Yommi Oni with agency
report At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5
September 2011] [scroll down] Guinean police
yesterday in Reports
That Child Refugees Sexually Exploited Shock Annan Integrated Regional
Information Networks IRIN, [accessed 9 March
2015] Refugee children in
The Experience of
Refugee Children in United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 26 Feb 2002 www.savethechildren.org.uk/resources/online-library/sexual-violence-exploitation-the-experience-of-refugee-children-in-guinea-liberia-and-sierra-leone [accessed 8
September 2014] www.alnap.org/system/files/content/resource/files/main/825.pdf [accessed 5 February
2019] This
publication suggests that sexual violence and exploitation of children appears
to be extensive in the communities visited and involves actors at all levels,
including those who are engaged to protect the very children they are
exploiting – UN staff, security forces, staff of international and national
NGOs, government officials, and community leaders. – htcp Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 29 January 1999 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/guinea1999.html [accessed 8 February
2011] [35] The Committee
is concerned at the increasing phenomenon of trafficking and sale of children
into neighboring countries for work or prostitution. The insufficient
measures to prevent and combat this phenomenon are also a matter of concern.
In the light of article 35 and other related articles of the Convention, the
Committee recommends that the State party review its legal framework and
reinforce law enforcement, and strengthen its efforts to raise awareness in
communities, in particular in rural areas. Cooperation with neighboring
countries through bilateral agreements to prevent cross-border trafficking is
strongly encouraged. Protection
Project: Guinea [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/guinea.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - UNICEF
commissioned a special study, conducted between April and July 2003, that
showed child trafficking was quite prevalent in The death of three
girls in a road accident in November 2003 led to investigations that revealed
the existence of a network that traffics children into ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61573.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Some NGOs reported that women, men, and children were trafficked within the
country, as well as internationally, for the sex trade and illegal labor.
Trafficking in persons from rural areas, mainly from the poorest areas in Some children were
trafficked for forced labor in agriculture and diamond mining camps and for
household work in The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/guinea.htm [accessed 8 February
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are reported to work in the commercial sex
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