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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Maldives.htm
The Maldives is primarily a destination
country for migrant workers from Bangladesh and India trafficked into forced
labor and, to a lesser extent, a destination country for women trafficked for
the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. An unknown number of the
80,000 foreign workers currently working in the Maldives – primarily in the
construction and service sectors –face fraudulent recruitment practices,
confinement, confiscation of identity and travel documents, debt bondage, or
general slave-like conditions. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Human trafficking in the maldivesdissent.blogspot.com/2009/03/human-trafficking-in-maldives.html [accessed 20 February 2011] The Human Rights
Commission of the But the
dispossessed labourers found themselves in a place
that couldn't have been more different to their dreams. Without proper
documents they were unable to report to the police and susceptible to
exploitation and extortion by unscrupulous Maldivians. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights Reports
» 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/sca/119137.htm [accessed 20 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The law did not prohibit trafficking in persons; however, there were no
reports that persons were trafficked to, from, through, or within the
country. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] Child labor was a problem in fishing, small commercial activities, and
family enterprises. The Child Protection Unit of the Ministry of Health and
Family was responsible for monitoring compliance with the law. The Ministry
of Health and Family, the Ministry of Human Resources, Youth and Sports, and
the Family and Child Protection Unit of Maldives Police Service received
complaints of child labor, conducted inquiries, and initiated legal action
when necessary. The Protection Project
- The The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/maldives.doc [accessed 2009] GOVERNMENT
RESPONSES
– According to the Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/maldives [accessed 27 June 2012] U.S. Library of
Congress - Country Study Library of Congress Call Number DS349.8 .I5
1995 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/mvtoc.html [accessed 20 February 2011] The underclass: the
dark side of labour migration www.minivannews.com/news_detail.php?id=6143 [access date unavailable] ROSY PICTURE
- Jeehan says workers are sometimes “given a
different picture and find themselves in a situation for which they weren’t
prepared. Some get on a plane to go to Malaysia and end up in the
Maldives.” Most workers, she adds, arrive
in the country with valid work permits but are abandoned by sponsors and have
no other method of renewing their visas. “They don’t purposefully come as
illegal workers,” she says. “It’s fraud and no one
is accountable.” It is not hard to
come by a story of a construction worker, who lured with a promise of a
well-paid job in sunny Maldives, willingly mortgages his house or takes out a
second loan to pay between US$2,000 to US$3,000 to a broker to facilitate his
travel arrangements as well as secure him a lucrative job. Instead, many end up living in cramped
quarters with low wages, if they are paid at all. Some are stranded at the
airport and left to fend for themselves without even their passports in their
possession, says Ajwad Ali, permanent secretary of
the labour ministry. Human trafficking in the maldivesdissent.blogspot.com/2009/03/human-trafficking-in-maldives.html [accessed 20 February 2011] The Human Rights
Commission of the But the
dispossessed labourers found themselves in a place
that couldn't have been more different to their dreams. Without proper
documents they were unable to report to the police and susceptible to
exploitation and extortion by unscrupulous Maldivians. All material used herein
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