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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Portugal.htm
Portugal is a destination, transit, and a source country
for women, men, and children trafficked from Brazil, and to a lesser extent,
from Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Romania, and Africa for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. The majority of trafficking
victims identified in Portugal are Brazilian women trafficked for commercial
sexual exploitation. Male victims from Eastern European countries are
trafficked for forced labor into the farming and construction industries.
According to a 2008 ILO Report, Portuguese men are also trafficked to Western
Europe for forced labor. Trafficking victims also transit through Portugal to
other European countries. There are an estimated
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CAUTION: The following links have been
culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Portugal. 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 *** PORTUGAL-BRAZIL: Human Trafficking and Marriages - Another
Link Mario de Queiroz, Inter Press
Service News Agency IPS, www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35071 [accessed 19 December 2010] Today it is also the main source
of victims of human trafficking to Portugal, women who fall into prostitution
and sexual exploitation networks, as well as a source of large numbers of
women who marry Portuguese men. Brazil
is the favourite country for traffickers who form
part of the prostitution networks that have mushroomed in Portugal, which is
a springboard to wealthier European Union destinations, according to studies
presented at a seminar organised Monday and Tuesday
by the governmental Portuguese Youth Institute (IPJ). ***
ARCHIVES *** 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 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61669.htm [accessed 19 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The
country is a destination for men and women trafficked from OSCE is a important player to combat against human
trafficking UzReport, 12 September 2007 www.turkishweekly.net/news/48455/osce-is-a-important-player-to-combat-against-human-trafficking.html [accessed 19 December 2010] "In CAIM - Cooperation, Action, Investigation, World View The UN Secretary-General's database on violence against women,
2004 webapps01.un.org/vawdatabase/searchDetail.action?measureId=22423&baseHREF=country&baseHREFId=1053 [accessed 19 December 2010] In order to promote cooperation in
combating trafficking in women for sexual exploitation and to support and
protect its victims, Portugal has fostered public and private institutions
consolidating and implementing projects funded by European Union (EU) initiatives,
such as CAIM - Cooperação/Acção Investigação/Mundivisão
[Cooperation, Action, Investigation, World View] funded by the EU EQUAL
Initiative, which had its greatest impact between 2004 and 2008. CAIM is a groundbreaking project
in In addition to articles in
national newspapers and participation in television programmes,
the CAIM project for combating trafficking in women for sexual exploitation,
waged campaigns aimed at present and future media professionals. The first
phase included awareness-raising sessions on the problem for 30 journalists
and 50 future journalists. In the second phase, the media professionals had
the opportunity to design spots and compete to win a prize awarded by the
project. Two of the 10 works created were chosen and were widely broadcasted
in October 2007. PORTUGAL-BRAZIL: Human Trafficking and Marriages - Another
Link Mario de Queiroz, Inter Press
Service News Agency IPS, www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35071 [accessed 19 December 2010] Today it is also the main source
of victims of human trafficking to Portugal, women who fall into prostitution
and sexual exploitation networks, as well as a source of large numbers of
women who marry Portuguese men. Brazil
is the favourite country for traffickers who form
part of the prostitution networks that have mushroomed in Portugal, which is
a springboard to wealthier European Union destinations, according to studies
presented at a seminar organised Monday and Tuesday
by the governmental Portuguese Youth Institute (IPJ). Migrant trafficking and human smuggling: the situation in
Portugal [PDF] João Peixoto,
SOCIUS, www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/leverhulme/peixoto_abstract.pdf [accessed 19 December 2010] Smuggling and trafficking of
migrants is a relatively new phenomenon in The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/portugal.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE
TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - Organized crime is a large contributor to trafficking in FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Women are trafficked to
Portugal for prostitution. In 2001, Brazilian authorities investigated
possible Brazilian police involvement in a smuggling ring that sent Brazilian
women to Spain and Portugal, where they were forced into prostitution.
Authorities believed that the operation, which involved mostly minors, was
tied to the mafia on the Iberian Peninsula. An estimated 500 Brazilian women
were victims of the ring. Report Details Mixed Human Trafficking Picture in Europe, Jeffrey Thomas, The news.findlaw.com/wash/s/20060606/200606061819131.html [accessed 19 December 2010] Both the Human Trafficking: Data Collection, Current Trends and
Institutional Approaches [PDF] João Peixoto,
11th International Metropolis Conference, www.ceg.ul.pt/metropolis2006/WorkshopPresentations/Gulbenkian/JoaoPeixoto_metropolis2006.pdf [accessed 19 December 2010] VICTIMS - – Mostly men targeted for low
skilled jobs in civil construction – Also some women, targeted for
domestic service and, occasionally, pushed for the sex industry. Counter Trafficking Training for Religious Personnel,
November 6, 2006 United States Embassy to the Holy See, 6 November 2006 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 August 2011] Most recently, nearly 40 nuns from
Portuguese speaking countries were given intensive training in Technology Is a Double-Edged Sword: Illegal Human
Trafficking in the Information Age Judge Mohamed CHAWKI and Dr. Mohamed WAHAB, www.crime-research.org/articles/Mohamed2/4 [accessed 19 December 2010] In Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7686 [accessed 19 December 2010] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/portugal [accessed 19 December 2010] Library of Congress Call Number DP517 .P626 1993 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/pttoc.html [accessed 19 December 2010] Giles Tremlett and agencies in www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/nov/26/childprotection.uk [accessed 19 December 2010] All material used herein
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