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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early
years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Honduras.htm
Honduras is principally a source and
transit country for women and children trafficked for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation. Honduran victims are typically lured by false
job offers from rural areas to urban and tourist centers, such as
Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, and the Bay Islands. Honduran women and children
are trafficked to Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Belize, and the United
States for commercial sexual exploitation. Most foreign victims of commercial
sexual exploitation in Honduras are from neighboring countries; some are
economic migrants victimized en route to the United States. Additional
trafficking concerns include reports of child sex tourism in the Bay Islands,
and some criminal gangs’ forcing children to conduct street crime. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009
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CAUTION: The following links
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Easy prey for traffickers Yampier Aguiar
Durañona, Journalism student, Granma International,
February 2, 2005 Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 10 June 2013] NO ONE CAN OR SHOULD
SELL OUR CHILDREN
- On July 23, 2004, Aguas Ocaña,
Honduras’ first lady, announced that the government was preparing a lawsuit
against the US organization Orphans Overseas for offering an Internet network
selling Honduran children for $11,500 each. "No one can or should sell
our children," she added. In an
interview with the national HRN radio station, Ocaña
affirmed that in 2003 the government had rejected a request from the US
organization to operate in the country because it did not meet the legal
requirements. "The company is now
publicizing itself on the Internet as an adoption agency operating in
Honduras and what it is offering is the sale of Honduran children," she
stressed. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/honduras.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61732.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Women and children were trafficked into Most trafficking
victims were young women and girls, who were trafficked to Immigrant sisters admit charges in human
trafficking John P. Martin, Star-Ledger, August 04,
2006 www.alipac.us/f12/immigrant-sisters-admit-charges-human-trafficking-33642/ [accessed 21 April 2012] Two Honduran
sisters admitted yesterday that they helped smuggle dozens of illegal female
immigrants -- some as young as 14 -- into the United States, then forced them
to live together and work at North Jersey bars. The admissions by Noris Elvira and Ana Luz Rosales-Martinez, during a
federal court hearing in Trenton, brought to five the number of guilty pleas
in what authorities say was a case of indentured servitude. Under questioning
from prosecutors, the women said they helped oversee dozens of illegal
Hondurans who were forced to work six days a week and live in cramped Hudson
County apartments until they could repay smuggling fees as high as $20,000. The immigrants
earned $5 an hour, plus tips, by dancing and drinking with male patrons at
bars in Union City and Guttenberg. One ring member said the girls were
encouraged to prostitute themselves; another said they were beaten if they
ignored the house rules. 10 Indicted in International Human Smuggling Ring - Young Honduran Women Forced to Work in Hudson County Bars Michael Drewniak,
Public Affairs archives.uruguay.usembassy.gov/usaweb/paginas/471-00EN.shtml [accessed 30 August 2011] The women, mostly from rural, poor villages in Smuggled Honduran Women May Be Allowed To
Stay In newsday.com, 10 February 2005 -- Source:
www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--smuggledwomen0210feb10,0,251994,print.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey [accessed 8 February 2011] But after
delivering them to ABSTRACT - Nineteen women
and girls from Honduras who were smuggled into the United States and forced
to work in a bar may be permitted to stay in this country as protected
victims of human trafficking, authorities said. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 3 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/honduras [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 8 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number F1503 .H75
1995 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/hntoc.html [accessed 8 February 2011] Easy prey for traffickers Yampier Aguiar
Durañona, Journalism student, Granma International,
February 2, 2005 Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 10 June 2013] NO ONE CAN OR SHOULD
SELL OUR CHILDREN
- On July 23, 2004, Aguas Ocaña,
Honduras’ first lady, announced that the government was preparing a lawsuit
against the US organization Orphans Overseas for offering an Internet network
selling Honduran children for $11,500 each. "No one can or should sell
our children," she added. In an
interview with the national HRN radio station, Ocaña
affirmed that in 2003 the government had rejected a request from the US
organization to operate in the country because it did not meet the legal
requirements. "The company is now
publicizing itself on the Internet as an adoption agency operating in
Honduras and what it is offering is the sale of Honduran children," she
stressed. Focus on Children - Child Soldiers www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/iclp/bulletin/Sept2002.htm#002 [accessed 8 February 2011] "At the age of
13, I joined the student movement. I had a dream to contribute to make things
change, so that children would not be hungry….Later I joined the armed
struggle. I had all the inexperience and the fears of a little girl. I found
out that girls were obliged to have sexual relations to alleviate the sadness
of the combatants. And who alleviated our sadness after going with someone we
hardly knew?…There is a great pain in my being when I recall all these
things….In spite of my commitment, they abused me, they trampled my human
dignity. And above all, they did not understand that I was a child and that I
had rights." - From
a Honduras case study, cited in United Nations, Impact of Armed Conflict on
Children: Special Concerns, 1998. All
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