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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 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
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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/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7642 [accessed 17 February 2011] 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
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