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Rwanda
is a source country for some women and children trafficked for the purposes
of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Rwandan girls are trafficked within
the country for domestic servitude, as well as for commercial sexual
exploitation; in a limited number of cases, this trafficking is facilitated
by loosely organized prostitution networks. In December 2008, the UN Group of Experts on the DRC
released a report accusing Rwandan authorities of complicity in the
fraudulent recruitment of soldiers, including children, by the CNDP and their
movement across the border. Rwandan police or administrative officers
reportedly were sometimes present during such recruitment. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 Check out a later
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Rwanda. Some of these links may lead
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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
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that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims Rwandan National Police ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Ten years after
genocide, Rwandan children suffer lasting impact UNICEF Press Centre,
www.unicef.org/media/media_20325.html [accessed 20
December 2010] The children of Unemployment And
Human Trafficking In Rwanda Berrak Rasool,
The Borgen Project, 30 December 2020 borgenproject.org/human-trafficking-in-rwanda/ [accessed 3 March
2021] Umutesi is one of the many
girls who fell victim to human trafficking in
Rwanda. In 2018, an elderly woman approached her and offered a job that
seemed like a once in a lifetime opportunity. Desperate for a job, she accepted
the offer and traffickers sent her to Nairobi, Kenya under strict orders to
hide her passport. Instead of the job at a supermarket she expected to find,
she found herself in a slave market, called the office, where prospective
buyers browsed. “We were sold off
like mere commodities,” is how she described what had happened to her at the
office. ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Rwamda 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/rwanda/
[accessed 22 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR Statistics on the
number of victims identified in forced labor were not available. Suspected
victims were sometimes detained in transit centers without proper screening
or referral to care and assistance. Government
enforcement to prevent forced labor was inconsistent, particularly in cases
involving domestic workers. Although not widespread, forced labor reportedly
occurred in bars, restaurants, and mines. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT The majority of
child laborers worked in the agricultural sector and as household domestics.
Child labor also existed in isolated instances in cross-border transportation
and in the mining industry. Children received low wages, and abuse was
common. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/rwanda/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 5 May 2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Regulations governing
wage levels and conditions of work in the formal sector are poorly enforced.
While Rwanda has increased prosecutions for transnational trafficking in
recent years, Rwandan children are trafficked internally for domestic service
under abusive conditions, or for commercial sex work, and little effort is
made to hold internal traffickers to account. Many children work informally
in the agricultural sector. Young Congolese and Burundian refugees are
vulnerable to sexual exploitation and coerced recruitment into armed groups
linked to Rwandan security forces. 2017 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2018 www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ilab/ChildLaborReport_Book.pdf [accessed 22 April
2019] www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2017/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 5 May
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 833] Children in Rwanda
are trafficked internally for domestic work. Some Rwandan children are
externally trafficked, primarily to Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
and in East Africa for commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor in
domestic work and in agricultural and industrial sectors. (2). Diverse Human
Trafficking Trends in East African Region Highlights Urgent Need for Greater
Protection International Organization
for Migration IOM, 12-10-2010 [accessed 18 January
2016] In Tanzania, IOM
found evidence of child trafficking from Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda for sexual exploitation, fishing, domestic
servitude and agricultural labour. Adult victims were
identified in the domestic sector, as well as the mining, agricultural and
hospitality industries. The IOM assessment
established that Ugandan children are trafficked to all the countries in the
region with Although
information on Interview of John
R. Miller, Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in
Persons International Rescue
Committee, Trafficking Watch, Issue No. 5, Summer 2004, October 14, 2004 2001-2009.state.gov/g/tip/rls/37085.htm [accessed 14 august
2012] MILLER: Due to the
special efforts of Rachel Yousey, reports officer for VI. Children
Without Parents: Victims of Abuse and Exploitation Human Rights Watch Report,
Vol. 15, No. 5 (A), www.hrw.org/reports/2003/rwanda0403/rwanda0403-06.htm [accessed 20
December 2010] Perhaps the most
devastating consequence of the genocide and war in Lasting Wounds:
Consequences of Genocide and War for Rwanda's Children Human
Rights Watch, Lasting Wounds, April 2, 2003 www.hrw.org/en/node/12340/section/4 [accessed 26
September 2016] IV. Children Attacked CHILDREN AS TOOLS OF
VIOLENCE
- Thousands of Rwandan children have been used as tools of genocide and war.
Some joined in the campaign to annihilate the Tutsi. Others were recruited by
the RPF when it was a guerrilla force or enlisted in the army or Local
Defense Forces of the current Rwandan government. Children are recruited to
fight in IX. International Legal Standards FREEDOM
FROM ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION - Children without their parents, like all children,
have a right to be free from abuse and exploitation.13 Article 19 of the Convention on the
Rights of the Child holds states responsible to protect all children from
violence, neglect, mistreatment, abuse, or exploitation at the hands of their
parent, legal guardian, or anyone else responsible for their care.14 The Rwandan government has failed to
protect these children's rights to be free of exploitation of their labor, to
have access to education, and to inherit property. ***
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/2005/61587.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– There were reports that persons were trafficked from and within the
country. The country was a source country for small numbers of women and
children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation, domestic labor,
and soldiering. Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports of women
being trafficked internally or to Europe for prostitution, or child victims
being trafficked to The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor U.S. Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs, 2005 www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/rwanda.htm [accessed 20
December 2010] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - There are isolated cases of Rwandan children being
trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation, labor, and
soldiering. Children, specifically, have been trafficked to All
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