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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/SolomonIslands.htm
Scope and Magnitude. [June 2008] There is anecdotal evidence that young
women from Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, the People’s Republic
of China, the Philippines, and Malaysia are trafficked to the Solomon Islands
for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Reports also indicate that
girls and women are trafficked within the Solomon Islands for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation to logging camps. Child sex tourism appears to
be a small problem with some visiting nationals of the United Kingdom,
Australia, and France sexually exploiting local children. There are reports
that boys and girls are taken out to foreign and local fishing vessels by
their parents for commercial sexual exploitation with fishermen in exchange
for fish. Children are occasionally sold into commercial sexual exploitation
to pay bills or to earn school fees. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2008 [full country
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have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in the Solomon
Islands. 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 *** Lure of Logging Creates Another Headache Alfred Sasako, Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 11 September 2011] As if this is not
enough, the lure of logging has created another problem. It is new and
growing and is proving to be a headache for the country’s policymakers. In logging camps dotted across the nation,
a new generation of children fathered by foreign loggers is growing. Mothers
are often under-age girls with little or no education at all. A girl’s marriage to foreign loggers was
often pre-arranged by parents who knew the foreigners had families back in
Malaysia or in the Philippines and that one day they would leave. Other young girls were often “trafficked” into logging camps often by operators of
prostitution rings. What many parents
do not realise is that the number of children being
born and left behind in the Solomon Islands by loggers is on the rise. “These children simply have no one to look
after them in terms of clothing, feeding and schoolling
them,” I was told in Honiara recently.
“It’s a generation of fatherless children left behind by loggers who
have gone back to their countries after they’ve destroyed our forests. ***
ARCHIVES *** 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 22 December 2010] CHILD LABOR LAWS AND
ENFORCEMENT
- The
worst forms of child labor may be prosecuted under different statutes in the Human Rights
Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78791.htm [accessed 22 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Although the law does not prohibit trafficking in persons, there were no
reports that persons were trafficked to, from, or within the country. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6
June 2003 [accessed 3 September 2012] [52] The Committee is
concerned that:(a) Many children under 15 are working, often in very poor
conditions and for long hours; (b) In order to overcome extreme
poverty, many parents and families require children to work, as illustrated
by the prevalence of young girls working as domestics, sometimes within the
extended family; (c) The prevalence of
child labour prevents many children from attending school. Lure of Logging Creates Another Headache Alfred Sasako, Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 11 September 2011] As if this is not
enough, the lure of logging has created another problem. It is new and
growing and is proving to be a headache for the country’s policymakers. In logging camps dotted across the nation,
a new generation of children fathered by foreign loggers is growing. Mothers
are often under-age girls with little or no education at all. A girl’s marriage to foreign loggers was
often pre-arranged by parents who knew the foreigners had families back in
Malaysia or in the Philippines and that one day they would leave. Other young girls were often “trafficked” into logging camps often by operators of
prostitution rings. What many parents
do not realise is that the number of children being
born and left behind in the Solomon Islands by loggers is on the rise. “These children simply have no one to look
after them in terms of clothing, feeding and schoolling
them,” I was told in Honiara recently.
“It’s a generation of fatherless children left behind by loggers who
have gone back to their countries after they’ve destroyed our forests. Delegates agree to strengthen efforts to
reduce demand for CSEC 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 11 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/solomon-islands [accessed 28 June 2012] All
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