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Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/PapuaNewGuinea.htm
Papua New Guinea is a source, destination,
and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes
of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Women and children are
trafficked within the country for the purposes of commercial sexual
exploitation and domestic servitude; men are trafficked to logging and mining
camps for the purpose of forced labor. Women and children from Malaysia,
Thailand, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and the Philippines are
trafficked to Papua New Guinea for forced prostitution and PRC men are
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CAUTION: The following links
have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Papua New
Guinea. Some of these links may lead
to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false. No attempt has been made to validate their
authenticity or to verify their content. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Organized And Institutionalized Sexual
Exploitation And Violence Seth Mydans,
"A Bartered Bride’s ‘No’ Stuns Papua New Guinea: Rejection of Tribal
Customs is a Sign of Changing Times," New York Times, 7 May 1997 www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/papuang.htm [accessed 10 June 2013] POLICY AND LAW - In Papua New
Guinea, the compensation demand for the killing of a clan leader was $15,000,
25 pigs and an 18-year-old girl. However, Miriam Wilngal,
an 18-year-old girl refused to be sold by her own tribe as an object of
compensation for the murder of a tribe leader. She wanted to finish high
school, and not be dependent upon a man. The Department of Labor’s 2005 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2005/tda2005.pdf [accessed 15 December 2010] CHILD LABOR LAWS AND
ENFORCEMENT
- The worst forms of child labor may be prosecuted under different statutes
in Human Rights
Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78787.htm [accessed 15 December 2010] CHILDREN - Some children were
forced to work long hours as domestic servants in private homes, often to
repay a family debt to the "host" family. Child brides
frequently were taken as additional wives or given as brides to pay family
debts and often were used as domestic servants. Child brides were
particularly vulnerable to domestic abuse TRAFFICKING IN
PERSONS
– The law does not prohibit trafficking in persons. There were reports of
trafficking within the country. Custom requires the family of the groom to
pay a "bride price" to the family of the bride. While marriages
were usually consensual, women and female children were sometimes sold
against their will. There were also reports of Asian women being trafficked
into the country to work in the sex industry. Transactional sex was common
and often involved the sexual exploitation of children. The government
investigated allegations of corruption among officials dealing with passport
issuance and immigration. The allegations primarily involved the illegal
issuance of residence and work permits for Chinese or South Asian nationals
migrating to the country. Nevertheless, there was concern that the country
may be have been used as a route for trafficking in persons to Australia. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
30 January 2004 www.universalhumanrightsindex.org/documents/829/501/document/en/text.html [accessed 15 December 2010] [57] The Committee,
while welcoming the ratification in 2000 by the State party of ILO Conventions
No. 138 concerning the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment of 1973
and No. 182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the
Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour of 1999, remains concerned at
the significant number of children working, inter alia, as domestic servants. The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/papua.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE – Seth Mydans,
"A Bartered Bride’s ‘No’ Stuns Papua New Guinea: Rejection of Tribal
Customs is a Sign of Changing Times," New York Times, 7 May 1997 www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/papuang.htm [accessed 10 June 2013] POLICY AND LAW - In Papua New
Guinea, the compensation demand for the killing of a clan leader was $15,000,
25 pigs and an 18-year-old girl. However, Miriam Wilngal,
an 18-year-old girl refused to be sold by her own tribe as an object of
compensation for the murder of a tribe leader. She wanted to finish high
school, and not be dependent upon a man. www.unhcr.org/home/RSDCOI/452f50342.pdf [access date unavailable] OBJECTIVE 2:
STRENGTHEN THE CAPACITY OF LOCAL PARTNERS IN PNG, INCLUDING GOPNG, TO PROVIDE
EFFECTIVE PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS OF CONCERN - UNHCR will
continue to conduct workshops on the role and core mandate of UNHCR, and on
the Refugee Convention in relation to Migration and Human Trafficking
training for GoPNG officials from Immigration,
the Police, the Judiciary, and Customs. This will ensure that by 2009
competent staff at the border towns are able to identify asylum
seekers and refugees among migrants, are aware of PNG’s international
obligations, and respond appropriately. Neo Melanesian, 6 Nov 2003 www.png-gossip.com/news/g031106.html#ht [accessed 15 December 2010] HUMAN TRAFFICKING
- The Federal Police from Delegates agree to strengthen efforts to
reduce demand for Commerical Sexual Exploitation Of
Children Joint Media Release: ECPAT International,
UNESCAP, UNICEF, 11 November 2004, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 10 September 2011] In the Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/papua-new-guinea [accessed 27 June 2012] Human Rights Overview by Human Rights
Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide www.hrw.org/asia/papua-new-guinea [accessed 15 December 2010] All material used herein
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