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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Spain.htm
Spain is a transit and destination country
for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual
exploitation and forced labor. There
has been an increase in the number of minors trafficked into Spain for forced
begging. In smaller numbers, Chinese victims are trafficked to Spain,
primarily for forced labor. A coalition of 20 NGOs in Spain estimates that
there are at least 50,000 people in Spain who are victims of human
trafficking. Particularly vulnerable to trafficking are migrants from Romania
and Bulgaria and possibly unaccompanied migrant minors, though there is
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Spanish police rescue hostage boy BBC News, 9 June 2006 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5063150.stm [accessed 23 December 2010] The Price of a Slave in Bernardete Toneto,
[originally in Portuguese in the newspaper Brasil
de Fato], February 2004 www.brazzil.com/component/content/article/74-february-2004/1662.html [accessed 17 April 2012] AN ANIMAL IN A ZOO - Before leaving We couldn't even leave the house
without being accompanied by "security." One of the girls was
threatened with death after she left for a weekend. They thought she went
looking for the Brazilian consulate. We never had routine medical exams, much
less tests for AIDS. I fled when I met a Brazilian
customer to whom I told my story. It seems that he had contact with other
groups because nine days after I told him my story he returned, gave me a
false passport and a ticket back to Brazil.
I escaped, but even today I think of my friends there who are being
held prisoners, like animals in a zoo. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61676.htm [accessed 24 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Methods
used by traffickers to maintain control of their victims included physical
abuse, forced use of drugs, withholding of travel documents, and threats to
the victim's family. Women from Traffickers lured some victims
from other regions with false promises of employment in service industries
and agriculture but then forced them into prostitution upon their arrival in
the country. The media reported that criminal networks often lured their
victims by using travel agencies and newspaper advertisements in their home
countries that promised guaranteed employment in Concluding Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of
The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7 June 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/spain2002.html [accessed 24 December 2010] [8] In line with its previous
recommendation (ibid., para.20), the Committee welcomes the improvement of
safeguards in the cases of inter-country adoption contained in Act 1/1996 and
the ratification of the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and
Cooperation in respect of Inter-country Adoption. Victoria Burnett, New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/world/europe/23spain.html?_r=3&ref=world [accessed 24 December 2010] The traffickers lured their
victims with promises of a better life in Women were taken to a voodoo
shrine and made to swear before a priest that they would never reveal the
identities of the traffickers, he said. The priests took pieces of
fingernails or hair from the women as part of the ritual. “People here are very scared of the power
of voodoo, so the traffickers tell the victims that if they do anything funny
they will invoke voodoo,” Mr. Mojeed said in a
telephone interview. RIGHTS: Activists Demand that Alicia Fraerman, Inter Press
Service News Agency IPS, www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41182 [accessed 24 December 2010] Gentiana Susaj,
coordinator of the RED, said it is important for Police arrest 60 people in crackdown on human trafficking
ring www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_45095/life/SPANISH-REGION-ANDALUSIA-Police-arrest-60-people-in/ [access date unavailable] Police in southern Authorities raided five brothels
and nine homes in the Investigators believe the women
were brought to Spanish police arrest 7 for human-trafficking Associated Press AP, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 11 September 2011] The arrests took place in the
northeastern Mediterranean coastal region of Costa Brava, where the gang
allegedly smuggled in women, mostly from Spanish, Bulgarian police dismantle alleged human
trafficking ring Associated Press AP, Sofia, October 17, 2006 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 11 September 2011] The ring — allegedly led by 35-year-old
Bulgarian, who was not identified by name — is suspected of organizing the
smuggling of more than 500 women from eastern European countries into Spanish general prosecutor: Human trafficking, main
Romanian problem in Denisa Maruntoiu,
12 October 2006 -- Source: www.daily-news.ro/article_detail.php?idarticle=30691 [accessed 24 December 2010] HUMAN TRAFFICKING MAIN ROMANIAN
PROBLEM IN Spanish police have broken up a gang of Romanian human
traffickers Siskind's Immigration Bulletin www.visalaw.com/05jun4/8jun405.html [accessed 24 December 2010] INTERNATIONAL ROUNDUP - Spanish police have broken up a
gang of Romanian human traffickers who were faking identity documents and
credit cards. Twenty-two people have been arrested, the majority of them
Romanians. The gang specialized in
bringing Romanian women, often under-age girls, to Spanish police rescue hostage boy BBC News, 9 June 2006 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5063150.stm [accessed 23 December 2010] Spanish Police Arrest 14 in Crackdown on Immigrant
Prostitution Ring Associated Press AP, www.libertadlatina.org/eur_spain_police_arrest_14_free_54_enslaved_brazilian_women_05-06-2005.htm [accessed 24 December 2010] The group recruited hundreds of
women coming mainly from FG Smashes Human Trafficking Syndicate Kingsley Newzeh & Iyefu Adoba, This Day, allafrica.com/stories/printable/200501250914.html [partially accessed 11 September 2011 - access restricted] According to Babandede,
the parcel contained shocking pornographic photographs of Nigerian girls
based in Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7706 [accessed 24 December 2010] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/spain [accessed 24 December 2010] Library of Congress Call Number DP17 .S67 1990 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/estoc.html [accessed 24 December 2010] The Price of a Slave in Bernardete Toneto,
[originally in Portuguese in the newspaper Brasil
de Fato], February 2004 www.brazzil.com/component/content/article/74-february-2004/1662.html [accessed 17 April 2012] AN ANIMAL IN A ZOO - Before leaving We couldn't even leave the house
without being accompanied by "security." One of the girls was
threatened with death after she left for a weekend. They thought she went
looking for the Brazilian consulate. We never had routine medical exams, much
less tests for AIDS. I fled when I met a Brazilian
customer to whom I told my story. It seems that he had contact with other
groups because nine days after I told him my story he returned, gave me a
false passport and a ticket back to Brazil.
I escaped, but even today I think of my friends there who are being
held prisoners, like animals in a zoo. ECPAT Spain launches a new campaign against the Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 11 September 2011] The campaign’s main goal is the
prevention of CSEC by raising the awareness of people travelling
from Dying to Leave - Human Trafficking Worldwide: Morocco Thirteen, www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/dying-to-leave/human-trafficking-worldwide/morocco/1453/ [accessed 24 December 2010] COUNTER-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS - In 2001, tensions between All material used herein
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