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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/SouthKorea.htm
The Republic of Korea (ROK) is a
source country for the trafficking of women and girls within the country and
to the United States (often through Canada and Mexico), Japan, Hong Kong,
Guam, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, for the purpose of commercial
sexual exploitation. The ROK is a destination country for women from |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** South Korean labour laws reduce migrant workers to slaves Mostly Water, 16 March 2004 [accessed 23 December 2010] To migrant workers, the EPS is a
law that allows slavery. According to the new law, migrant workers can work
in South Korea for only three years and for only one employer. Since migrant
workers cannot change their work place, the employer basically has complete
control over the wages and working conditions of migrant workers; thus these
workers are bound to the employer like slaves. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61613.htm [accessed 23 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Women
from Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 31 January 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/korea2003.html [accessed 23 December 2010] [42] The Committee remains
concerned that, due to prevailing negative cultural traditions, domestic
adoptions may be arranged without authorization or involvement of the
competent authorities and that such arrangements do not necessarily take into
account the best interests of the child or, where appropriate, the views of
the child. The Committee also notes with concern the high number of
inter-country adoptions, suggesting that this form of adoption is not
necessarily a measure of last resort, and reiterates its concern, stated in
previous concluding observations, that the State party has not ratified the
Hague Convention of 1993 on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect
of Inter-country Adoption. Human trafficking in S. Korea Editorial, The Hankyoreh,
Feb.28,2009 english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_editorial/341437.html [accessed 23 December 2010] “Natasha,” 29, came to Kang Shin-who, Asian Sex Gazette, 8 September 2006 www.asiansexgazette.com/asg/korea/korea02news89.htm [accessed 23 December 2010] Indonesia traffics children who
often become sexually enslaved, said the report, and women and girls as young
as 10 years old from Kyrgyzstan are transported for sexual exploitation and
end up in countries like South Korea, the report said. Source:
english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507030020.html www.worldsexguide.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11833 [accessed 23 December 2010] The number of Korean women looking
for work as prostitutes abroad or being trafficked for the purpose is on the increase.
Some 50 members of two gangs busted in Key US Gulf Allies Cited in Human Trafficking Report Voice of At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 11 September 2011] Mr. Miller also commended NBI Busts Mail-Order Bride Syndicate The Philippine Star, www.newsflash.org/2004/02/ht/ht004954.htm [accessed 23 December 2010] In his report to Wycoco, NBI Anti-Human Trafficking Division (AHTRAD)
chief Romulo Asis said
the group’s modus operandi was to entice Filipino women to apply for
match-marriages with male Koreans. Asis said Korean clients would come to the Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 2 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7639 [accessed 23 December 2010] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 23 December 2010] Library of Congress Call Number DS902 .S68 1992 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/krtoc.html [accessed 23 December 2010] Xinhua News Agency, September 13, 1994 www.migrationint.com.au/news/oman/oct_1994-23mn.asp At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
Illegal foreign workers deported
from Moon Gwang-lip, The Korea Times,
8 September 2004 www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=14444 [accessed 23 December 2010] In July, Lawrence Summers,
president of South Korean labour laws reduce migrant workers to slaves Mostly Water, 16 March 2004 [accessed 23 December 2010] To migrant workers, the EPS is a law
that allows slavery. According to the new law, migrant workers can work in
South Korea for only three years and for only one employer. Since migrant
workers cannot change their work place, the employer basically has complete
control over the wages and working conditions of migrant workers; thus these
workers are bound to the employer like slaves. Sally Hardcastle, BBC News, 27 September 2001 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1566971.stm [accessed 23 December 2010] Garment workers around the world
are accusing South Korean companies of treating workers as "virtual
slaves" in factories abroad. The
Secretary General of the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers
Federation (ITGLW) has gone to Seoul to protest about the treatment of
workers in countries including Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The ITGLW, which represents workers in the
garment industry all around the world, alleges that South Korean companies
running factories abroad top the list of bad employers. Global Dimensions in Mapping the Foreign Labor Policies of
Dong-Hoon Seol,
Dept of Sociology, www.calstatela.edu/centers/ckaks/Global_Migration_Conf/Seol_paper.pdf [accessed 23 December 2010] ABSTRACT - This paper focuses on global
dimensions in mapping the foreign labor policies of Sex slaves William H. McMichael, Times
staff writer, Songtan, prakorea.blogspot.com/2005/10/flesh-trade.html [accessed 23 December 2010] Lana came to The nine months she has worked in
clubs that dot the half-mile strip running straight away from the front gate
of the U.S. Air Force's Osan Air Base have left her
with eyes far too world-weary for a 24-year-old. Stripped of her passport by her bar owner,
in fear of corrupt South Korean police and deeply in debt to her new bosses,
she was forced to sell sex to American servicemen. She became, in essence, a sex slave. Thousands of Women Forced Into Sexual Slavery For US
Servicemen in Feminist News, Feminist Majority Foundation, September 9,
2002 www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=6870 [accessed 23 December 2010] Since the mid 1990s, more than
5,000 women have been trafficked
into Malia Rulon,
Associated Press AP, Washington, August 7, 2003 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 11 September 2011] [scroll down] As a result of the investigation,
U.S. military officials in South Korea have made an additional 26 establishments
suspected of being involved in prostitution and human trafficking off-limits
to U.S. servicemen. They also have increased educational efforts for all
service members on how to spot instances of human trafficking. The report recommended that the military
create a standardized human trafficking curriculum; make improvements to
on-base entertainment and recreational facilities; and continue coordination
efforts with South Korean law enforcement officials. kalaniosullivan.com/KunsanAB/8thFW/Howitwasb11d6.html#Center At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 11 September 2011] Base Instincts Donald Macintyre/Tongduchon,
TIME Magazine, Aug. 05, 2002 www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501020812-333899,00.html [accessed 23 December 2010] "The women are here because
they've been tricked," he says, nonchalantly. "They're told they're
going to be bartending or waitressing, but once they get here, things are
different," he adds, with a knowing look. The fact that the women may have been
forced into prostitution doesn't seem to bother most of their
soldier-patrons. Nor, until recently, did it bother the military brass at the
bases. But now a U.S. Senator and 12 members of Congress are demanding
action. Alarmed by a Fox Television news report casing brothels where
trafficked women were allegedly forced to prostitute themselves to G.I.s, the lawmakers sent a letter to the Pentagon in
May, asking for an investigation. All material used herein
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