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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early
years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 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 www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/pubs/usaid_antitraffic_final_508c_04_20_06.pdf [accessed 8 February 2011] [page 25] ***
ARCHIVES *** 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. Human Trafficking Concerns in the Commonwealth Caribbean:
the 2009 Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) [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 www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/pubs/usaid_antitraffic_final_508c_04_20_06.pdf [accessed 8 February 2011] [page 25] 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/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7620 [accessed 8 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number F2368 .G893 1993 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/gytoc.html [accessed 8 February 2011] Moving Up The Tiers At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 5 September 2011] 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, www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2004/September/20040910174056cmretrop0.6162226.html [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
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