Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Poverty drives the unsuspecting poor into the
hands of traffickers Published reports & articles from 2000 to 2025 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Mauritius.htm
Mauritius is a
source for children trafficked within the country for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation. Secondary school-age girls and, to a lesser
extent, younger girls from all areas of the island, including from Rodrigues
Island, are induced into prostitution, often by their peers, family members,
or businessmen offering other forms of employment. Taxi drivers are known to
provide transportation and introductions for both the girls and the clients.
Boys whose mothers engage in prostitution are reportedly forced into
prostitution at a young age. Some drug-addicted women are forced to engage in
prostitution by their boyfriends, who serve as pimps. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 Check
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ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Mauritius U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/mauritius/
[accessed 16 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR Trade
unionists reported cases of forced labor during the year among migrant
workers involving passport confiscation, underpayment of wages, substandard
living conditions, lack of clearly defined work titles, denial of meal
allowances, and deportation. As of September 30, there were 44,967 migrant
workers in the country, mainly from Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
China, and Madagascar. In addition, Malagasy women reportedly transited the
country while traveling to other countries, where employers subjected them to
forced labor conditions. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT Children
were engaged in commercial sexual exploitation and illicit activities (see
section 6, Children). Children worked in the informal sector, including as
street traders, and in small businesses, restaurants, agriculture, small
apparel workshops, and retail shops. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/mauritius/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 23 July
2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? There
are legal protections against exploitative working conditions, but the
roughly 40,000 migrant workers in the manufacturing and construction sectors
can face abuses. There have been reports of employers confiscating workers’
passports, and of migrant workers becoming beholden to recruitment agents who
charge huge fees for placement in a job. Both foreign and Mauritian women and
girls have been targeted by sex traffickers. While the government has made
some efforts to prosecute sex and labor traffickers and provide services to
victims, these efforts are generally inadequate. 2017 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2018 www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ilab/ChildLaborReport_Book.pdf [accessed 18 April
2019] www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2017/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 3 May
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 677] Some
children in Mauritius are lured into commercial sexual exploitation by their
peers or family members, or through false offers of other employment. (10; 5;
1) Mauritius has never conducted a national child labor survey, and therefore
information on the prevalence of child labor in the country is limited. (4). ECPAT UK Campaigner ECPAT At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8
September 2011] [scroll down] CASES - A Liberian girl had
been forced into domestic work with a family in Protection Project
Country Report The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/mauritius.doc [accessed 2009] www.protectionproject.org/country-reports/ [accessed 13
February 2019] A Human Rights
Report on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children TRAFFICKING ROUTES - Mauritius is a
destination country for trafficking in women and children. Children have been
trafficked to NONGOVERNMENTAL AND
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION RESPONSES - Shelter for Women and Children in
Distress runs rehabilitation programs for victims of commercial sexual
exploitation. Social workers have also participated in a training session
with End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, and Trafficking of Children
for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT) International. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61582.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The law prohibits trafficking in persons, and in December the legislature
amended the Child Protection Act, increasing the maximum punishment for
trafficking to 15 years and expanding the definition of trafficking. There
were reports that children were trafficked within the country for child
prostitution. There were reports that some schoolgirls worked in conjunction
with prostitution rings or family members. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/mauritius.htm [accessed 20
February 2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Mauritius has an estimated 2,600 child prostitutes
and is a source and destination country for children trafficked for the
purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Children are also trafficked
internally for exploitation in the sex tourism industry. All
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