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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early
years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Guyana.htm
Guyana is a source country for men, women,
and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation
and forced labor … Women and girls are lured with offers of well-paying jobs,
and are subsequently exploited and controlled through threats, withholding of
pay or insufficient pay, and physical violence. In coastal areas, traffickers
promise rural women and girls jobs as domestic
servants, then coerce them into working in shops or homes for little or no
pay, or sell them to brothels. Many trafficking victims along the coast are
Amerindian teenagers, targeted by traffickers because of poor education and
job prospects in their home regions.
- U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Trafficking in Persons: USAID’s Response [PDF] United States International Development
Agency USAID, March 2006 pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACH052.pdf [accessed 15 August 2012] [page 25] GUYANA: SHELTER FOR TRAFFICKING VICTIMS, TRAINING POLICE AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS - Much of the trafficking in Guyana involves AmerIndian girls and takes place from hinterland communities to transportation and commercial nodes in coastal and hinterland areas for prostitution and involuntary domestic servitude. Girls are duped into prostitution with promises of employment as waitresses and bar attendants at coastal establishments and in gold and diamond mining areas; young men are exploited under forced labor conditions in timber camps. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Trafficking Concerns in the Commonwealth
Caribbean: the 2009 U.S. State Department Trafficking in Persons Report in
focus
[PDF] Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI)
www.humanrightsinitiative.org/london/hr_in_caribbean/human_trafficking_in_the_caribbean_june_2009.pdf [accessed 8 February 2011] 4. It is concerning
that Guyana has been placed on Tier 2 of the Watch List for a third
consecutive year. The evidence presented shows a persistent failing to
provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking, particularly in
the area of law enforcement actions against trafficking offenders. Although,
the government of Guyana has increased support for victims of trafficking its
enforcement remains poor. Guyana has
yet to prosecute any trafficking offenders under its 2005 anti-trafficking
law. 5. Guyana is a
source, transit, and destination country for people (including children)
trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labour.
According to the TIP Report official reporting of human trafficking is
limited; the majority of trafficking appears to take place in remote mining
camps where Amerindian girls are trafficked to brothels near the camps and to
coastal areas for sexual exploitation and domestic servitude. Also, young
Amerindian men are exploited for forced labour. Other countries trafficking
reports point to the trafficking of Guyanese women and girls for sexual
exploitation to neighbouring countries such as
Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Suriname, and Venezuela. Reports also
indicate that Guyanese men and boys are subject to labour exploitation in
construction and agriculture in these same countries. Trafficking victims
from Suriname, Brazil, and Venezuela transit Guyana en route to Caribbean
destinations. 6. According to the
TIP Report, the Government of Guyana does not fully comply with the minimum
standards for the elimination of trafficking; furthermore the report has
found cases of official complicity in human trafficking. David Gollust,
Voice of At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 September 2011] He said several
countries listed in the bottom category last year, including Trafficking in Persons: USAID’s Response [PDF] United States International Development
Agency USAID, March 2006 pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACH052.pdf [accessed 15 August 2012] [page 25] GUYANA: SHELTER FOR TRAFFICKING VICTIMS, TRAINING POLICE AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS - Much of the trafficking in Guyana involves AmerIndian girls and takes place from hinterland communities to transportation and commercial nodes in coastal and hinterland areas for prostitution and involuntary domestic servitude. Girls are duped into prostitution with promises of employment as waitresses and bar attendants at coastal establishments and in gold and diamond mining areas; young men are exploited under forced labor conditions in timber camps. Government Information Agency www.gina.gov.gy/archive/daily/b070306.html [access date unavailable] [scroll down] Agence France-Presse AFP, www.caribbeannewsnow.com/caribnet/2004/06/17/unfair.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] Shadick said Guyanese
police and other authorities have been raiding mining camps and other areas
to rescue mainly indigenous women from prostitution, cheap and forced labour,
as well as prosecuting offenders under existing laws. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/guyana [accessed 26 June 2012] U.S. Library of Congress - Country Study Library of Congress Call Number F2368 .G893
1993 www.loc.gov/collections/country-studies/?q=F2368+.G893+ [accessed 5 June 2017] Moving Up The Tiers refugeesunleashed.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17816 [accessed 15 July 2013] [scroll down] With the release of
the report the government was quick to counter that it had been addressing
the problem in spite of the daunting difficulties the State Department report
recognized. There is no
evidence that trafficking in persons here is in any way near the proportions
that it is elsewhere in the world but steps must be taken to root out the
practice wherever it has sprung up in Guyana. He added that once
it has been recognised that the government has
adopted measures that have been successfully implemented and create the
requisite environment to deal with trafficking in persons, a reclassification
“would be in order.” Four Nations Move Against Trafficking in
Response to Distributed by the Bureau of International
Information Programs, iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2004/09/20040910174056cmretrop0.6162226.html#axzz3Ceikh97X [accessed 8 February 2011] James Morrison, The At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 September 2011] "The initial
reaction was one of shock," said Mr. Ishmael, the most senior Latin
American or Caribbean envoy in The ambassador
noted that Guyana's minister of human services and social security, Bibi Shadick, complained that Washington failed to recognize
the government's efforts to draw international attention to human trafficking
in forums such as the Organization of American States and the Inter-American
Commission of Women. "Minister Shadick has personally plunged herself into a countrywide
campaign to investigate the issue and to educate various communities in the
remote interior of the country of problems associated with human trafficking,"
Mr. Ishmael said. "This is very
commendable since it is very unusual for a Cabinet minister in the Latin
America and Caribbean region, or anywhere else, to be involved so directly in
trying to stamp out a social scourge." Guyana determined to combat TIP www.landofsixpeoples.com/news402/nc406206.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] The Government is
concerned about the increasing incidence of Trafficking in Persons that has
been gripping the country. But it has not been silent on the issue. In fact, it has adopted a proactive
approach to effectively deal with the problem, according to Minister of Human
Services and Social Security Bibi Shadick. “We have been putting so much effort into
this problem from the time we understood what it is,” she said. She added that her Ministry’s Departments
such as the Probation and Family Welfare and Labour Departments were always
dealing with many TIP issues such as sexual exploitation. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/guyana.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61730.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The country was a source and destination for trafficked women and children,
although most trafficking in persons occurred internally. Trafficking
reportedly took place in the interior, where there was little government
oversight and law enforcement was lacking. Most trafficking originated in
impoverished Amerindian communities, although some victims came from the
larger coastal cities. Some women trafficked into the country came from the
northern regions of neighboring Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
30 January 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/guyana2004.html [accessed 8 February 2011] [49] The Committee
expresses its concern at the increasing prevalence of child labour in the State party. All
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