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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Mongolia.htm
Mongolia is a source country for men,
women, and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and
forced labor. Mongolian women and girls are trafficked to China, Macau, Hong
Kong, Malaysia, and South Korea for both forced labor and sexual exploitation.
Mongolian men and women are trafficked to Kazakhstan and Turkey for labor
exploitation. There is also concern about involuntary child labor in the
Mongolian construction, mining, and industrial sectors, where they are
vulnerable to injury and face severe health hazards, such as exposure to
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** U.S. Customs Commissioner Issues Detention
Order on Clothing Produced in www.cbp.gov/hot-new/pressrel/2000/1128-00.htm [accessed 17 April 2012] Evidence obtained
by Customs investigators suggests that factory managers are forcing
employees, some of whom are minors, to work 14-hour days, 7 days a week. In
addition, it has been reported that factory management is deducting
unreasonable amounts of money from the workers' salaries without paying
overtime. It has also been reported that minor age children are being treated
as adult age workers, which is a violation of Mongolian law. In addition,
working conditions at both factories are said to be poor and employee housing
is substandard. Study: B.Bulgamaa, The UB Post,
January 22, 2009 [accessed 2 September 2012] GEC also
interviewed 16 victims of trafficking who returned to NGOs have also
reported on the increasing scope of domestic trafficking and organized
criminal networks in Mongolia that kidnap girls from the streets or lure them
through their peers, relatives or acquaintances, keep them locked in hotels
and force them into prostitution. In February, 2008, during the Mongolian New
Year, half a dozen girls were reported to have been kidnapped from the
streets and forced into prostitution in Ulaanbaatar and Darkhan
city. One of the cases involving a 17-year old girl, a daughter of a poor
single mother of three, caught significant media and public attention.
Victims and NGOs also reported that girls are often trafficked abroad after
having been ‘tamed’ and sexually exploited in Mongolia. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/mongolia.htm [accessed 21 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - While comprehensive information about the nature and
extent of trafficking in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/62653.htm [accessed 21 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The primary targets of trafficking schemes were middle-class girls and
young women, ranging from 14 to approximately 28 years of age, who were lured
abroad by offers to study or work. Preventive steps to combat trafficking,
such as increased law enforcement measures, remained limited. As a result, it
was not difficult to traffic persons across the country's borders. Some NGO
experts believed that members of the police sometimes were involved in
trafficking young women and helping facilitate their movement across borders.
Protections for
victims and witnesses were extremely limited, which discouraged them from
coming forward. Furthermore, social stigma inhibited victims from telling
their stories. The government had limited resources and divergent priorities,
and therefore provided no direct assistance for trafficking victims. NGOs
offered support when possible, and the government relied on NGOs to increase
awareness and initiate prevention programs. The government worked with the UN
on a three-year project for capacity building in the National Council on
Gender Equality, which included giving more attention to trafficking and
prostitution. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3
June 2005 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/6665ba6cee999821c12570350028974c?OpenDocument [accessed 21 February 2011] [64] The Committee
is deeply concerned at the increasing number of children engaged in
prostitution. While noting that trafficking in children is a relatively new
human rights problem in Mongolia, the Committee is concerned about certain
risk factors, including persisting poverty, the high rate of unemployment,
difficult family circumstances leading to run-away from home and a growth in
tourism, which may and often does increase sexual exploitation and
trafficking in children. Study: B.Bulgamaa, The UB Post,
January 22, 2009 [accessed 2 September 2012] GEC also
interviewed 16 victims of trafficking who returned to NGOs have also
reported on the increasing scope of domestic trafficking and organized
criminal networks in Mongolia that kidnap girls from the streets or lure them
through their peers, relatives or acquaintances, keep them locked in hotels
and force them into prostitution. In February, 2008, during the Mongolian New
Year, half a dozen girls were reported to have been kidnapped from the
streets and forced into prostitution in Ulaanbaatar and Darkhan
city. One of the cases involving a 17-year old girl, a daughter of a poor
single mother of three, caught significant media and public attention.
Victims and NGOs also reported that girls are often trafficked abroad after
having been ‘tamed’ and sexually exploited in Mongolia. Campaign To Be Arranged Against Human
Trafficking www.montsame.mn/index.php?option=com_news&task=news_detail&tab=200804&ne=526 [access date unavailable] Thanks to a help by
Gender Equality center, 51 victims of human trafficking were brought back to Informal Marriages Hide Human Trafficking B.Bulgamaa, The UB Post,
2007-04-13 www.ginsc.net/main.php?option=view_article&mode=0&article=3638&lang=en [accessed 21 February 2011] The protection of
rights and a positive legal environment for the victims of human trafficking
who become illegally married to Asian men still does not exist yet, because
of a lack of information and knowledge about human trafficking. About 20 days
ago, four Mongolian women with three of their children requested from the
Mongolian consulate in Erlian, China, to save them
from the violence of their husbands. They were married
to Chinese men when they were introduced to each other in Mongolia, but have
lived in China for over ten years now. According to reports in the Mongolian
media, all of them were living in a half-starved state, they had no right to
work for wages and weren’t even allowed to go outside. They were beaten
brutally by their husbands and had other physical pressure applied. Some of
them were unwillingly forced to have sex by their husbands. But the accused
husbands are demanding the return of their wives from the consulate. Street Children Remain Neglected Damien Dawson, 06 April 2007 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 September 2011] In a week when the
western world celebrates the anniversary of the abolition of the
trans-Atlantic slave trade, abducted women and children are being transported
across the Chinese border in a modern-day slave trade. The western world is dimly but increasingly
aware of this, but it remains firmly at the back of the minds of those that
possess the power to deal with the plight of those who are part of Mongolia’s
future. Freedom House Country Rating - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 2 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/mongolia [accessed 27 June 2012] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, July 12, 2004 [accessed 21 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DS798 .W67
1990 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/mntoc.html [accessed 21 February 2011] The Crime of Trafficking of Women and
Children in National Human Rights Commission of www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/nhrcm_2002_mongolia_trafficking_report_3.pdf [accessed 21 February 2011] 2. THE CRIME OF
TRAFFICKING AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN Jurist Legal Intelligence - Jurist: The Legal Education Network™,
Source: jurist.law.pitt.edu/world/mongolia.htm#Human [accessed 21 February 2011] HUMAN RIGHTS - The Mongolian
Government generally respected the human rights of its citizens in 2001;
however, problems remain in some areas. Child abuse and
child labor also are problems. There were some instances of forced labor, and
some women seeking work overseas may have become victims of trafficking
schemes. U.S. Customs Commissioner Issues Detention
Order on Clothing Produced in www.cbp.gov/hot-new/pressrel/2000/1128-00.htm [accessed 17 April 2012] Evidence obtained
by Customs investigators suggests that factory managers are forcing
employees, some of whom are minors, to work 14-hour days, 7 days a week. In
addition, it has been reported that factory management is deducting
unreasonable amounts of money from the workers' salaries without paying overtime.
It has also been reported that minor age children are being treated as adult
age workers, which is a violation of Mongolian law. In addition, working
conditions at both factories are said to be poor and employee housing is
substandard. All
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