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/Norway.htm
Norway is a
destination country for women and girls trafficked from Nigeria, Bulgaria,
Brazil, Estonia, Ghana, Eritrea, Cameroon, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic
of Congo for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Victims from
Africa and Brazil are frequently trafficked through Italy, Spain, Morocco,
and the Balkans. Men and children are trafficked from Thailand, the United
Kingdom, India, Sri Lanka, Romania, and Bulgaria to Norway for the purposes
of domestic servitude and forced labor in the construction industry. Children
in Norwegian refugee centers are vulnerable to human trafficking. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June,
2009 Check out a later country report here and possibly a full TIP Report here |
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CAUTION: The following links
have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEB-PAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of Human Trafficking are of
particular interest to you. Would you
like to write about Forced-Labor? Debt
Bondage? Prostitution? Forced Begging? Child Soldiers? Sale of Organs? etc. On the other
hand, you might choose to include precursors of trafficking such as poverty and hunger. There is a lot to
the subject of Trafficking. Scan other
countries as well. Draw comparisons
between activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims The Norwegian Directorate of
Immigration ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Call for residency
for human trafficking victims Norwegian Church Aid
NCA, 10 November 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9
September 2011] “It’s all well and
good that our legal system takes human trafficking seriously,” said Atle
Sommerfeldt, General Secretary of Norwegian Church Aid, in a statement
released yesterday. But he questioned whether Norwegian authorities are doing
enough to protect girls who dare to testify in such cases. “I understand that
the authorities cannot automatically grant full residency to everyone, but in
cases such as this, witnesses need to be protected, and we should allow these
women at least temporary residence in Human trafficking
case gets underway Kjetil Kolsrud &
Nina Berglund, Aftenposten, November 9, 2004 [accessed 28 June
2013] The two women,
according to prosecutors, were then moved to STRIPPED AND PEDDLED
FOR SALE
- A few days later, a Norwegian man showed up at the flat with a camera. Both
women were stripped and photographed, and then advertised for sale in a local
newspaper handed out for free. Customers started calling, and the men
withheld all the money that customers paid to beat, rape and abuse the women.
The abuse included being burned with cigarettes. ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Norway 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/norway/
[accessed 20 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR In 2019 police
received 62 reports of violations of the labor law, 10 violations of other
related laws, and no reports of forced labor from the Norwegian Labor
Inspection Authority (NLIA). PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT While employers generally
observed minimum age rules, there were reports that children were trafficked
for forced labor (see section 7.b.). Children were subjected to forced
begging and criminal activity, particularly drug smuggling and theft.
Commercial sexual exploitation of children also occurred. There were also
reports of children forced to work as unpaid domestic help. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/norway/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 8 July
2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? The principle of
equality of opportunity and legal protections against economic exploitation
are generally upheld. The government has been active in combating labor and
sex trafficking and works to provide services to victims, though the US State
Department has recommended that Norwegian authorities increase training and
dedicate resources for police, prosecutors, and others responsible for
handling trafficking cases. Human trafficking
witnesses can stay in Norway Catherine Stein
Aftenposten June 12, 2008 www.icare.to/article.php?id=15686&lang=en [accessed 28 June 2013] The most recent
human trafficking trial took place in "I feel used
by the Norwegian authorities. I would never have come forward if I had known
that I was going to be thrown out afterwards," one witnesses told daily
newspaper VG. She is currently in
hiding, fearing that the traffickers' accomplices will find her. By confronting
them in court she feels that she has put herself in danger. If she is
returned to Romania her situation will become impossible. She has appealed to
the Norwegian Immigration Appeals Board. Actions Against
Human Trafficking www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=21123&ew_0_a_id=307522 [accessed 14
December 2010] www.icelandreview.com/news/actions-against-human-trafficking/ [accessed 4 May
2020] The prototype of
this strategy came from Norway where a similar plan was put into action in
2003. The size of human trafficking was unknown then, and it was even
believed that human trafficking in Norway did not exist. That has proved to
be wrong and since the plan was introduced in Norway, 204 possible victims of
human trafficking have been discovered. Falling Short of
the Mark: An International Study on the Treatment of Human Trafficking
Victims
[PDF] The Future Group,
March 2006 www.oas.org/atip/canada/Fallingshortofthemark.pdf [accessed 6 February
2011] lastradainternational.org/lsidocs/13%20Falling%20short%20of%20the%20mark%20(Future%20Group).pdf [accessed 4 February
2019] NORWAY - RESIDENCE - Regardless of
whether they are willing to cooperate with investigators, trafficking victims
in Norway may be granted a 45-day .reflection period. or .grace period. to
obtain assistance and counseling before they may be subject to deportation.
In practice, Norway has granted temporary residence permits to victims that
are willing to cooperate in major trafficking cases, skipping the .reflection
period. For victims that are repatriated, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is
supporting rehabilitation programs with local NGOs and countries of origin. Georgians Convicted
Of White Slavery Nina Berglund,
Aftenposten, February 15, 2005 www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1344034/posts [accessed 24 April
2012] An
One in 12 children
forced into world's 'worst forms' of labor: UNICEF UK Agence France-Presse
AFP, www.worldrevolution.org/news/article1773.htm [accessed 2
September 2012] [accessed 20
February 2019] UNICEF UK lauded
the pledge of developed countries, made more than 30 years ago, of allocating
0.7 percent of gross domestic product to development aid but regretted that
only five countries today fulfill that promise -- Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg
and Sweden. Against Trafficking Source: By the
Norwegian Ministry of Children and Family Affairs www.norway.org/aboutnorway/society/Equal-Opportunities/trafficking/ [accessed 14 December
2010] In 2003, The Norwegian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs' measures to combat HUMAN TRAFFICKING under the
Government's Plan of Action - Report on efforts carried out 2007 Section for Global
Initiatives and Gender Equality, Dept. for UN, Peace and Humanitarian Affairs
5 February 2008 www.regjeringen.no/globalassets/upload/ud/vedlegg/menneskerettigheter/rap07eng_trafficing.pdf [accessed 20
February 2019] This report gives
an account of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ follow-up of the Government’s
Plan of Action, and will form part of the inter-ministerial working group’s
overall report on Norway’s efforts to combat human trafficking. This report
focuses on the work carried out in 2007, but it also refers to efforts dating
back as far as 2000, as many activities extend over several years. This
applies in particular to the summary and the appended list of projects and
statistical information. Factbook on Global
Sexual Exploitation - Coalition Against
Trafficking in Women www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/norway.htm [accessed 14
December 2010] TRAFFICKING - In Workshop on “Good”
and “Bad” Practices Regarding the Image of Women in the Media - the case of
trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation Council of Europe,
Palais de l'Europe, [accessed 28 August
2011] PROCEEDINGS Concluding Observations
of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 3 June 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/norway2005d.html [accessed 14
December 2010] [3] The Committee
welcomes a number of measures taken by the State party to implement and
strengthen the protection of the rights covered by the Optional Protocol,
including the 2003-2005 National Plan of Action to Combat trafficking … Stop trafficking of
women! At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9 September
2011] [right col] Elena
was 16 years old when she was sold, raped and smuggled from her native ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61667.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Police identified a number of possible victims trafficked by organized
criminals for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Most of these suspected
victims were women from Government
officials believed that organized crime groups were responsible for most
trafficking. Traffickers used threats, violence, rape, and confinement to
enforce victims' compliance. Government authorities suspected they may also
confiscate travel documents and subject victims to debt bondage. All
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