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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Senegal.htm
Senegal is a source,
transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked for the
purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Trafficking
within the country is more prevalent than trans-border trafficking and the
majority of victims are children. Within Senegal, religious teachers traffic
boys, called talibe, by promising to educate them,
but subjecting them instead to forced begging and physical abuse. A 2007
study done by UNICEF, the ILO and the World Bank found that 6,480 talibe were forced to beg in Dakar alone. Women and girls
are trafficked for domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation --
including exploitation by foreign sex tourists -- within Senegal. Children
are also trafficked for forced labor in gold mines within Senegal. - |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Lives of Street Children in The World Bank News, February 13, 2007 [accessed 21 December 2010] CHILD TRAFFICKERS
TARGETED
- Poor parents who cannot afford to care for their children often entrust
them to religious leaders known as marabous to educate them and teach them
the Koran. Child traffickers
posing as marabous will often kidnap the children from villages and take them
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ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/senegal.htm [accessed 21 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - In March 2004,
the government participated in a workshop in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61589.htm [accessed 21 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Reliable statistics on the extent of the trafficking problem were
unavailable. However, studies have shown the extent of trafficking in and
through the country to be significant, particularly with regards to child
begging. Talibés were trafficked from surrounding
nations, such as The Gambia, Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2006 [DOC] UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
29 September 2006 [accessed 21 December 2010] [60] The Committee
notes with appreciation the establishment of projects with a view to
improving the curriculum of education of talibés. However, the Committee is concerned by the
large number of working children and in particular by the current practice of
the Koranic schools run by marabouts who use the talibés on a large scale for economic gain, by sending
them to agricultural fields or to the streets for begging and other illicit
work that provides money, thus preventing them from having access to health,
education and good living conditions. [62] The Committee notes
the measures taken by the State party to prevent girls from being used as
domestic servants (petites bonnes) and subjected to
economic exploitation and sexual abuse.
However, the Committee is concerned by the growing extent of this
reality which threatens the health, physical integrity and education of the
girl child. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 1995 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
27 November 1995 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/crc-senegal95.htm [accessed 21 December 2010] [15] The Committee
is seriously worried at the difficult living conditions faced by a great
number of talibés, who are deprived of the
enjoyment of their fundamental rights under the law. Lives of Street Children in The World Bank News, February 13, 2007 [accessed 21 December 2010] CHILD TRAFFICKERS
TARGETED
- Poor parents who cannot afford to care for their children often entrust
them to religious leaders known as marabous to educate them and teach them
the Koran. Child traffickers
posing as marabous will often kidnap the children from villages and take them
to Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 3 Civil
Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/senegal [accessed 27 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 21 December 2010] Child Labour Persists Around The World:
More Than 13 Percent Of Children 10-14 Are Employed International Labour Organisation (ILO)
News, www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/news/WCMS_008058/lang--en/index.htm [accessed 4 September 2011] "Today's child
worker will be tomorrow's uneducated and untrained adult, forever trapped in
grinding poverty. No effort should be spared to break that vicious
circle", says ILO Director-General Michel Hansenne. Among the countries
with a high percentage of their children from 10-14 years in the work force
are: Mali, 54.5 percent; Burkina Faso, 51; Niger and Uganda, both 45; Kenya,
41.3; Senegal, 31.4; Bangladesh, 30.1; Nigeria,
25.8; Haiti, 25; Turkey, 24; Côte d'Ivoire, 20.5; Pakistan, 17.7; Brazil,
16.1; India, 14.4; China, 11.6; and Egypt, 11.2. All
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