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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Jordan.htm
Jordan is a destination and transit country
for women and men from South and Southeast Asia for the purpose of forced
labor. There were some reports of women from Morocco and Tunisia being
subjected to forced prostitution after arriving in Jordan to work in
restaurants and night clubs. Women from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and
the Philippines migrate willingly to work as domestic servants, but some are
subjected to conditions of forced labor, including unlawful withholding of
passports, restrictions on movement, non-payment of wages, threats, and
physical or sexual abuse. During the reporting period, the Government of the
Philippines continued to enforce a ban on new Filipina workers migrating to
Jordan for domestic work because of a high rate of abuse of Filipina domestic
workers by employers in Jordan. At the end of the reporting period, an
estimated 600 Filipina, Indonesian, and Sri Lankan foreign domestic workers
were sheltered at their respective embassies in Amman; most of whom fled some
form of forced labor. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report,
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Embassies urge greater policing of agencies
that traffic migrant workers www.friends-partners.org/partners/stop-traffic/1999/1496.html [accessed 16 February 2011] Since 1996, the
Philippine government limits employment of nationals within ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/jordan.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - Compulsory labor is prohibited by the Constitution of
Jordan. While the law does not
specifically prohibit forced or bonded labor by children, such practices are
not known to occur. A Jordanian law
specifically prohibits trafficking in children, and there is no indication
that children were trafficked, to, from, or within the country. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61691.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The law prohibits trafficking in children; however, it does not
specifically prohibit trafficking in other persons. Other criminal statutes
prohibit slavery and indentured servitude. In October Western media reported
the August 2004 killing of 12 Nepali migrant workers in In 2004 to reduce
the potential for abuse of foreign domestic workers (FDWs), the government
adopted new and stricter procedures that regulate the importation of such
labor (see section 6.e.). While these changes improved the legal framework to
protect FDWs, lack of awareness among employers and employees remained a
problem. The government has undertaken a cooperative program with the UN
Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) to raise the awareness of FDWs on the new
protections afforded them. The Ministry of Labor (MOL) regularly visits the
employment agencies that hire and import FDWs to ensure compliance with the
law. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) [DOC] UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
September 29, 2006 [accessed 16 February 2011] [92] The Committee
regrets the lack of data on the extent and magnitude of commercial sexual
exploitation of children and trafficking in children for exploitative
purposes in the State party. It also regrets the insufficient legal
protection of boys below the age of 18 against commercial sexual exploitation
and the absence of a specific legal framework to protect children from trafficking. [86] While noting the
high number of migrant workers in the State party, and particularly the
estimated number of undocumented
workers and the weak protection against exploitation and abuse provided to
them, the Committee is concerned at the situation and vulnerability of their
children residing in Jordan. [88] The Committee
commends the State party for its cooperation with ILO/IPEC, including for
signing the Memorandum of Understanding with ILO for the implementation of
IPEC Country Programme. It welcomes the various
measures taken to address the issue of child labour in Jordan, including the
2002 amendment of the Labour Code provision on the minimum age for employment
of children working in hazardous occupations which raised the minimum age to
18 years. Despite these positive measures, the Committee remains concerned
about the prevalence of child labour in the State party. It notes with
particular concern information that the employment of children has steadily
grown in recent years, especially in agriculture. The Committee is further
concerned that the protection provided by the Labour Code does not apply for
children working in the informal sector (for example, in small family
enterprises, agriculture and domestic labour). Investigate Human Trafficking in Janess Ann J. Ellao, Bulatlat.com, [accessed 16 February 2011] Sometime in May
2009, Nheljean said they got a phone call from her
sister, telling them her employer was beating her up and had even pointed a
gun at her. She ran away and was taken under custody of her recruitment
agency in But the harsh
conditions she had to live with in the custody of the recruitment agency, for
instance the insufficient food and chance to change her clothes, even, had
pushed her to escape from its custody. Jean reportedly escaped by sliding
down a pipe from the fifth floor of her agency’s building. This time, she
went to the Philippine Overseas Labor Office – Overseas Workers Welfare
Association office to seek help. Jean wanted to go home. Going home,
however, is easier said than done. Upon arriving at POLO-OWWA office in Hearing :: Combating Trafficking for Forced
Labor Purposes in the OSCE Region Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 7 September 2011] For example, a
contract labor agency in The Protection Project - Jordan [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/jordan.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
- The
purpose of trafficking in Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 5 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/jordan [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/jordan [accessed 16 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DS153 .J677
1991 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jotoc.html [accessed 16 February 2011] Commercial sexual
exploitation of children - Middle East/ based on the situation analysis written by Dr Najat M’jid
for the Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 16 February 2011] FORM AND PREVALENCE
OF CSEC IN THE REGION
- Early marriage is common in some of the countries of the region. This
practice is considered to increase children’s vulnerability to CSEC because
it legitimizes early sexual activity. Between 1995 and 2000, a United Nations
Population Fund report on young married women between the ages of 15 and 19
showed that, of this age group … in Jordan 9 per cent of girls aged 15-19 are
married (legal age of marriage is 17 Embassies urge greater policing of agencies
that traffic migrant workers www.friends-partners.org/partners/stop-traffic/1999/1496.html [accessed 16 February 2011] Since 1996, the
Philippine government limits employment of nationals within Coalition Against Trafficking in Women -
Jordan www.catwinternational.org/factbook/Jordan.php [accessed 16 February 2011] ORGANIZED AND
INSTITUTIONALIZED SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND VIOLENCE CASE - Rania Arafat,
21, was shot four times in the back of the head by her 17-year-old brother
for refusing an arranged marriage to her cousin and eloping with her
boyfriend, and thereby bringing shame on the family. ("Dishonor, Then
Death," World Press Review, February 1998). All
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