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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Paraguay.htm
Paraguay is principally a source and
transit country for women and children trafficked for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation, as well as a source and transit country for
men, women, and children trafficked into forced labor. Most Paraguayan
victims are trafficked to Argentina and Spain; smaller numbers of victims are
trafficked to Brazil, Chile, Italy, and Bolivia. The involuntary domestic servitude of
adults and children within the country is a serious problem. Indigenous
persons are vulnerable to forced labor exploitation, particularly in the
Chaco region. Poor children are trafficked from rural areas to urban centers
such as Asuncion, Ciudad del Este, and Encarnacion
for commercial sexual exploitation and domestic servitude. Street children
and working children are common targets for trafficking recruiters. According
to the ILO, some traffickers coerce underage males, known as “taxi boys,”
into transgendered prostitution. Some of these boys are trafficked abroad,
particularly to Italy. Trafficking of Paraguayan and Brazilian women, girls,
and boys for commercial sexual exploitation commonly occurs in the Tri-Border
Area of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** International Federation of Journalists -
The 2002 Jury Report International Federation of Journalists, 14
October 2002 www.ifj.org/en/articles/the-2002-jury-report [accessed 16 December 2010] IN THE REGIONAL
CATEGORY OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN THE 2002 NATALI PRIZE GOES TO: - The series of
five articles by Julio César Benegas concerning
human violations within the Military Service of Paraguay is remarkable
journalism, which highlights the corruption which is at the core of the
recruitment of child soldiers as well as the cultural aspects involved. These
articles also exposed the exploitation of child soldiers and other human
rights violations, which resulted in the death of 10 soldiers a year on
average. For military personnel Paraguay is one of the most dangerous
countries worldwide in peaceful times, Benegas
concluded in his report. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/paraguay.htm [accessed 16 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61737.htm [accessed 16 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Trafficking victims within the country worked in the sex industry. Underage
girls reportedly also were forced to work as criadas,
both domestically and in neighboring countries. According to the Secretariat
for Children and Adolescents, many of these children were sexually abused.
Government and NGO studies showed that most of the girls trafficked were
working as street vendors when traffickers targeted them and that 70 percent
of victims had drug addictions. The local NGO Grupo
Luna Nueva and the International Organization for Migration reported that
trafficking of women and children increased by 27 percent in the past five
years. The trafficking of
women and children for sexual exploitation was a high-profit, low-risk
activity for traffickers who moved easily across the borders with On several
occasions, Argentine police rescued Paraguayan women from The government's
primary focus in protecting victims was the repatriation of its own citizens. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
12 October 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/paraguay2001.html [accessed 16 December 2010] [4] In light of its
previous recommendation (CRC/C/15/Add.75, para.
41), the Committee notes with satisfaction the promulgation in 1997 of the
Adoption Act to combat trafficking in children and establish strict control
over all matters connected with adoption, especially inter-country adoption. [49] The Committee
expresses its deep concern that, with regard to the increasing phenomenon of
commercial sexual exploitation of children, there are no data available,
legislation is inadequate, cases involving sexually exploited children are
often not investigated and prosecuted, victims are criminalized, and rehabilitation
programs are not available. It further notes that a national plan against
commercial sexual exploitation of children has not been developed. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 3 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/paraguay [accessed 27 June 2012] U.S.
Library of Congress - Country Study Library of Congress Call Number F2668 .P24 1990 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/pytoc.html [accessed 16 December 2010] Save the Children Save the Children www.scslat.org/web/trabajo_temas_sociedad.php?id=I [accessed 16 December 2010] CIVIL SOCIETY - In particular,
Save the Children Sweden operates through a partnership with Global Infancia in Paraguay and CECODAP in Venezuela; the Latin
American and Caribbean Network for the Defense of Boys, Girls and
Adolescents’ Rights (REDLAMYC), a network gathering over 2300 organizations;
national children’s organization networks in El Salvador (RENAES), Paraguay
(PLATAFORMA) and Peru (REDNNA) that together represent over 2500 children,
and the Latin American Network of Boys, Girls and Adolescents (REDNNYA), with
active members in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru and
Venezuela. Triple Border Project, International Labour Organisation ILO
Office for At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 September 2011] PERSONAL STORY MABELIA - Mabelia is 10 years old. On November 30, 2002, she was found by a merchant from Ciudad del Este on Adraina Jara y Pampliega street. It was approximately 9:00 p.m. when she was found in, what is perhaps, one of the most frequented corners of the centre of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. She was very dirty.
Dressed in pants and a pullover, and wearing Japanese-style slippers, when
she was found she had about 12 USD (80.000 Gs, Guaraníes) in her pockets, a product of her 'sexual
activity'. It had been 48 hours since she had returned to her mother's home,
but she feared going back, since she had not met the goal that had been
established by her mother, Doña Maria. At the Courthouse,
the young girl told the judge that the money found in her pockets was the
fruit of her 'sexual work'. She explained that, encouraged by her mother, she
would leave her house in the morning and sometimes would cross the Puente de
la Amistad (Friendship Bridge)to the border city of Foz
de Iguazu in Brazil on the pretext of buying
candies to sell later. She admitted to having an 'established clientele'. - htcp ILO to mark World Day Against Child Labour
(12 June 2003) International Labour Organisation (ILO)
News, www.hrea.org/lists/child-rights/markup/msg00200.html [accessed 16 December 2010] FROM LATIN AMERICA - The Triple Border
region - where Marcelino Gomes Paredes and Cristian Ariel Nuñez - 14 years of age OAS Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights - Report Nº 82/03, Petition 12.330, October 22, 2003 www.cidh.org/annualrep/2003eng/Paraguay.12330.htm [accessed 16 December 2010] III. POSITION OF THE
PARTIES … A. POSITION OF THE PETITIONERS 7. The petitioners
argue that, despite the clear legal provisions prohibiting the recruitment of
children under the age of 18, and repeated complaints on this score, “the
military and police forces have made it a systematic, constant and frequent
practice to recruit minors between the ages of 12 and 17, and to date no
steps have been taken to curb this practice.” International Federation of Journalists -
The 2002 Jury Report International Federation of Journalists, 14
October 2002 www.ifj.org/en/articles/the-2002-jury-report [accessed 16 December 2010] IN THE REGIONAL
CATEGORY OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN THE 2002 NATALI PRIZE GOES TO: - The series of
five articles by Julio César Benegas concerning
human violations within the Military Service of Paraguay is remarkable
journalism, which highlights the corruption which is at the core of the
recruitment of child soldiers as well as the cultural aspects involved. These
articles also exposed the exploitation of child soldiers and other human
rights violations, which resulted in the death of 10 soldiers a year on
average. For military personnel Paraguay is one of the most dangerous
countries worldwide in peaceful times, Benegas
concluded in his report. All
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