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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Macau.htm
Macau is primarily a destination for the
trafficking of women and girls from the Chinese mainland, Mongolia, Russia,
Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, and Central Asia for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation. Most victims are from inland Chinese
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Human Trafficking Stretches Across the
Region Moyiga Nduru,
Benoni SA, Inter Press Service News Agency IPS,
June 23, 2004 www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=24338 [accessed 19 February 2011] IOM official
Jonathan Martens told a three-day conference which opened in Benoni, near South Africa's main commercial city of
Johannesburg, this week (Jun. 22) that the women are promised employment,
luxury accommodation, and a payment of between 10,000 and 20,000 dollars.
Their passports are confiscated once they arrive in Macau. Martens said South
African traffickers earn around 500 dollars for every woman recruited for
prostitution in Macau, which has been labeled the "Las Vegas of
Asia" for its numerous casinos and nightclubs. Drugs play a "very
big role" in recruitment, he added. A 23-year-old woman
identified as Nicola reported to the IOM that she had met nine other black,
white and mixed race South Africans aged 18 to 21 in Macau, who were forcibly
prostituted in the former colony. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61605.htm [accessed 19 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– From January to November, the SAR investigated 42 cases of procurement.
While most of these cases involved women who were believed to be willing
participants in the sex industry, 10 women claimed to have been brought to
the SAR under false pretenses and 3 complained of abuse. SAR authorities
believed that Chinese, Russian, and Thai criminal syndicates were involved in
bringing women to the SAR for the purposes of prostitution. Prostitutes were
primarily from mainland There were no
government assistance programs for victims of trafficking. No local NGOs
specifically dealt with the problem; however, there were charitable
organizations that provided assistance and shelter to women and children who
were the victims of abuse. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
30 September 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/china2005.html [accessed 19 February 2011] [8] The Committee
regrets the limited statistical data on sexual exploitation and cross-border
trafficking included in the State party’s report, both with regard to
mainland [14] The Committee
is concerned at the limited information provided about services to assist
child victims with regard to reintegration and recovery on the mainland. It
is also concerned about the absence of assistance programs specifically
designed for child victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation in the
Macau SAR. [18]. The Committee
notes with appreciation the increased regional cooperation between the State
party and neighboring countries, such as Police crack 10 cases of human trafficking Alexandra Lages, www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/17363-Police-crack-cases-human-trafficking.html%20 [accessed 19 February 2011] Since the new law
came into force in February 2008, the police have found 30 cases of human
trafficking, of which 14 were in 2008, 6 in 2009 and 10 during this year. “The great majority
of the cases have sexual purposes behind, but there are also some cases of
human organs trade. Victims are usually women coming from mainland Human trafficking bill approved www.macaudailytimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7545&Itemid=28 [access date unavailable] Luciano Oliveira,
assessor to the secretary for administration and justice, Florinda
da Rosa Silva Chan, said that the witness protection scheme will be available
to any victims of human trafficking who require it. Each case is an independent case, as “we
are dealing with people,” he said, adding that the legal diploma and witness
protection scheme will not only apply to underaged
victims but to anyone. The government
will also create a committee to deal with issues on human trafficking, which
will be “activated in specific cases, when there are victims who need these
services, because not all victims require the same treatment,” Mr Oliveira added. Judges asked to clamp down on trafficking South African Press Association SAPA,
October 19, 2007 www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/judges-asked-to-clamp-down-on-trafficking-1.375558 [accessed 19 February 2011] "Malawian
women are sold by Nigerian syndicates... to Malia Politzer,
The Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2007 online.wsj.com/article/SB118522321864075317.html?mod=googlenews_wsj [partially accessed 19 February 2011 --
access restricted] Despite -- or
perhaps because of -- its swift development, Macau has become a major
sex-trafficking destination for victims from the US presses Robin Kwong in www.ft.com/cms/s/0/59af099e-27e5-11dc-80da-000b5df10621.html [access restricted] “There has been minimal progress in the past
year,” Mr Lagon said. Attitudes in Macao, however, may be
changing. Mr Lagon said Mr Ho admitted the territory had not done enough and
“expressed a will to address [the problem] within months”. “It was a marked change in rhetoric,” Mr Lagon said. Sister Juliana Devoy, whose Good Shepherd Sisters have operated a crisis
centre in Macao for 17 years, said it had only dealt with a few victims of
sex trafficking. “The main problem is
that we don’t know how to contact the victims and the victims don’t know how
to contact us,” she said. “They are not free to just walk around on the
streets.” Talent scout nabbed for human trafficking [PDF] Jing Villamentefrom,
The trafficking.org.ph/v5/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=1456 [accessed 19 February 2011] A gay fashion show
manager sending Filipino women to Lasala said Fajardo brought them to nightclub where they had to work
20 hours a day providing sex during their 23-day stay. The duped recruits later learned that Fajardo had abandoned them, taking all their earnings. Combating human trafficking in The Center for Human Rights and
Development, www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/Mongolia-trafficking.pdf [accessed 19 February 2011] [Page 7] Robert L. Worden, Federal Research
Division, Library of Congress, August 7, 2000 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/motoc.html [accessed 19 February 2011] Human Trafficking Stretches Across the
Region Moyiga Nduru,
Benoni SA, Inter Press Service News Agency IPS,
June 23, 2004 www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=24338 [accessed 19 February 2011] IOM official
Jonathan Martens told a three-day conference which opened in Benoni, near South Africa's main commercial city of
Johannesburg, this week (Jun. 22) that the women are promised employment,
luxury accommodation, and a payment of between 10,000 and 20,000 dollars.
Their passports are confiscated once they arrive in Macau. Martens said South
African traffickers earn around 500 dollars for every woman recruited for prostitution
in Macau, which has been labeled the "Las Vegas of Asia" for its
numerous casinos and nightclubs. Drugs play a "very big role" in
recruitment, he added. A 23-year-old woman
identified as Nicola reported to the IOM that she had met nine other black,
white and mixed race South Africans aged 18 to 21 in Macau, who were forcibly
prostituted in the former colony. The Crime of Trafficking of Women and
Children in National Human Rights Commission of
Mongolia & Centre for Human Rights and Development, November 2002 www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/nhrcm_2002_mongolia_trafficking_report_3.pdf [accessed 19 February 2011] [page 17] Various information sources report that
Mongolian women are sold into Asian Migration News www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn990531.htm#korea [accessed 19
February 2011] Four Koreans
(another source says five), believed to constitute a criminal ring, were
arrested by the police for making 12 Korean women work as prostitutes in Macau last year and early this year.
The syndicate has reportedly collected five million won every month from
Macau entertainment owners for "managing" the women. Trafficking Vladmir Isachenkov,
"Soviet Women Slavery Flourishes," Associated Press AP, 6 November
1997 www.catwinternational.org/factbook/Macao.php [accessed 19 February 2011] Concluding Observations of the Human Rights
Committee - UN International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights CCPR, Human Rights
Committee, 5 May 1997 www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/1a4725eb945f1352c12569fc005189f3?Opendocument [accessed 19 February 2011] [13] The Committee is
particularly concerned at reports on the extent of trafficking in women in
Macau and on the large numbers of women from different countries who are
being brought into All
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