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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Laos.htm
Laos is primarily a source country for
women and girls trafficked primarily to Thailand for the purposes of
commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor as domestic or factory
workers. Some Lao men, women, and children migrate to neighboring countries
in search of better economic opportunities but are subjected to conditions of
forced or bonded labor or forced prostitution after their arrival. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Powell Cites Exploitation In 10 Nations Associated Press AP, June 15, 2004 www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41729-2004Jun14.html [accessed 17 February 2011] Khan was 11 years
old when she was kidnapped from her home in the hill country of ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61614.htm [accessed 17 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The majority of trafficking victims have been lowland Lao, although small
numbers of highland minority women have also been victimized by traffickers.
Minority groups were particularly vulnerable because they do not have the
cultural familiarity or linguistic proximity to Thai that Lao‑speaking
workers can use to protect themselves from exploitative situations. A much
smaller number of trafficked foreign nationals, especially Burmese and
Vietnamese, transited through the country. Many labor
recruiters in the country were local persons with cross‑border
experience and were known to the trafficking victims. For the most part, they
had no connection to organized crime, commercial sexual exploitation, or the
practice of involuntary servitude, but their services usually ended once
their charges reached Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
10 October 1997 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/laos1997.html [accessed 17 February 2011] [10] The Committee
is concerned at the insufficient attention paid by the State party to
systematic, comprehensive and disaggregated qualitative and quantitative data
collection and to the identification of appropriate indicators and mechanisms
to evaluate the progress and the impact of policies and measures adopted for
all areas covered by the Convention, especially the most hidden such as child
abuse or ill-treatment, but also in relation to all groups of children
including minority group children, girl children, children in rural areas,
and children victims of sale, trafficking and prostitution. [27] The Committee
is concerned by the increasing phenomenon of child prostitution and
trafficking, which affects boys as well as girls. It is worried about the
insufficiency of measures to prevent and combat this phenomenon, and the lack
of rehabilitation measures. Xinhua News Agency, September 20, 2007 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 7 September 2011] Human trafficking helps spread HIV/AIDS in
Asia: UN Ranga Sirilal,
Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/idUSL22325220070822 [accessed 17 February 2011] "Trafficking
... contributes to the spread of HIV by significantly increasing the
vulnerability of trafficked persons to infection," said Caitlin Wiesen-Antin, HIV/AIDS regional coordinator, Major human
trafficking routes run between Nepal and India and between Thailand and
neighbors like Laos, Cambodia and
Myanmar. Many of the victims are young teenage girls who end up in
prostitution. "The link between
human trafficking and HIV/AIDS has only been identified fairly
recently," Wiesen-Antin told the International
Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. The ins and outs of leaving Laos Clifford McCoy, Asia Times Online, www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IH11Ae01.html [accessed 17 February 2011] Local trafficking
networks inside The family members
or friends who say they can arrange employment are often tied into these
networks, even if they are not formal members themselves. Once they have
persuaded a Lao to seek work abroad, that person, often a young woman or
under-age girl, is literally sold to the network, with the broker receiving a
finder's fee. Lao men are
sometimes forced to serve on fishing trawlers, where they work long hours in
deplorable conditions, sometimes not being allowed to return to shore for
months. Lao women frequently find themselves sold to brothel or
massage-parlor owners, who often force them to service numerous customers each
day to pay off their broker fee, which in some instances takes years to repay
fully. Xinhua News Agency, news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/07/content_4517342.htm [accessed 17 February 2011] Since the signing
of the historic COMMIT Memorandum of Understanding in Yangon, Myanmar in
October 2004, by Ministers of the six countries, the Governments have been
active in laying the foundation for a network of cooperation to stop
traffickers and prosecute them, protect victims of trafficking and assist
them return safely home, and launch efforts to prevent others from sharing
the same fate. 47 Laotian women rescued from Thai
prostitution dens [DOC] Associated Press AP, [accessed 17 February 2011] Thai police on
Wednesday raided two karaoke bars in a province near The women rescued
from the bars in Chachoengsao province, 30
kilometers (19 miles) east of the capital, included eight girls under age 18,
said police Col. Kraibun Songsuat.
He said the bars' operators had kept the doors to the bars locked to keep the
women from escaping. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 7 Civil Liberties: 6 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/laos [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 17 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DS555.3
.L34 1995 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/latoc.html [accessed 17 February 2011] Humans for At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 7 September 2011] In one example of
forced labor, a 14-year-old boy from Powell Cites Exploitation In 10 Nations Associated Press AP, June 15, 2004 www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41729-2004Jun14.html [accessed 17 February 2011] Khan was 11 years
old when she was kidnapped from her home in the hill country of Christians Persecuted in At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 7 September 2011] CHRISTIANS SENTENCED
TO FORCED LABOR
- Christians in Millions Suffer in Sex Slavery United Press International UPI, Chicago,
April 24, 2001 archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/4/23/184354.shtml [accessed 17 February 2011] Statistical
estimates indicate 300,000 women have been sold into the sex trade in Western
Europe in the last 10 years, and since 1990, 80,000 women and children from
Myanmar (formerly Burma), Cambodia, Laos
and China have been sold into Thailand's sex industry. Crisis-hit Kyodo News International, www.thefreelibrary.com/Crisis-hit+Laos+wrestles+with+child-trafficking+problem.-a059332210 [accessed 17 February 2011] Trafficking of
children from Best safety net for a child is the family from a forum held on September 29, 1998 at Kasama Vol. 12 No. 4 /
October–November–December 1998 / Solidarity cpcabrisbane.org/Kasama/1998/V12n4/Ofelia.htm [accessed 17 February 2011] In Laos, very often
the boys are approached directly, lured with baits of free drugs, good times,
alcohol, ‘chicks’. But for girls there is a different modus operandi – the
parents are approached. They are told, "Somebody is looking for a
maid," or "A big mall is opening up in Bangkok and it needs 500
salesladies." One of the usual ways of approaching Asian children is
through labour, through promised jobs. New weapons against child trafficking in
Asia The Magazine Of The Ilo:
World Of Work No. 19, March 1997 www.ageofconsent.com/comments/numberthirteen.htm [accessed 17 February 2011] In Video Warns of Human Traffickers' False
Promises The Nation, [accessed 17 February 2011] He said the
majority of the young trafficking victims who saw the video said they had not
been aware of the risks and possible consequences associated with work
migration. Khammoune
Souphanthong, director of the Lao Social Welfare
Department, welcomed the video, saying it would be a useful tool in educating
Lao children on the dangers of trafficking. Local and Thai procurers lure Lao
boys and girls with false promises of well-paid jobs in Thailand, he said.
Many young Laotians were easy prey because they were attracted by the chance
of becoming "modernised" in the style of
role models seen on Thai television, he said. All material used herein
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