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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Switzerland.htm
Switzerland is
primarily a destination and, to a lesser extent, a transit country for women
and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation
and forced labor. One NGO reported that roughly 50 percent of the trafficking
victims counseled in Switzerland came from Eastern Europe; 27 percent were
from Latin America; 14 percent were from Asia; and the remaining nine percent
came from Africa. There is reportedly forced labor in the
domestic service sector. Trafficking of ethnic Roma minors, who reportedly
are brought from other European countries to various Swiss cities to beg and
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Charity reveals tragedy of forced marriages Adam Beaumont in www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Charity_reveals_tragedy_of_forced_marriages.html?cid=5612814 [accessed 28 December 2010] Thousands of women
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Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor, March 8, 2006 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61678.htm [accessed 28 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Trafficking into the country is primarily performed by individuals and
small groups related through ethnic, clan, or family ties, as well as,
occasionally, organized criminals. Traffickers often forced victims into
prostitution and in many cases subjected them to physical and sexual
violence, threatened them or their families, encouraged drug addiction,
withheld their documents, and incarcerated them. Many victims were forced to
work in salons or clubs to pay for travel expenses and forged documents and
found themselves dependent on the traffickers. Generally the victims were
unable to read, write, or speak the country's languages and were afraid to
seek help from the authorities. 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/switzerland2002.html [accessed 28 December 2010] [36] The Committee
welcomes the entry into force of article 268(c) of the Civil Code which will
allow adoptive children to know their biological parents and the ratification
process expected to be completed in 2003 of the Hague Convention of 29 May
1993 on Protection of Children an Co-operation in respect of Inter-country
Adoption. However, the Committee remains concerned that children adopted
abroad shall wait two years before being formally adopted which can lead to discrimination
and statelessness. In addition, the Committee is concerned that, because of
the inadequate follow-up, cases of ill treatment of children by adoptive
parents have been reported. [52] While
welcoming the amendments to the Penal Code prohibiting the possession of
hard-core pornography, including child pornography and the establishment of a
new centre against cyber-crime in 2003, the Committee remains concerned at
the lack of knowledge about the scope of sexual exploitation of children, in
particular vulnerable groups, in the State party. Human trafficking allegations involve Swiss
diplomatic missions in Pakistan Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC News,
19 May 2006 www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/05/19/swiss05192006.html [accessed 28 December 2010] Switzerland shut
the visa section at its Islamabad embassy earlier this month, following a
Pakistani investigation into the illegal issuing of Swiss visas that has
led to a number of arrests. Swiss Envoys in IdslamOnline.net, slashnews.co.uk/news/2006/05/09/3551/Swiss-Envoys-in-Pakistan-Embroiled-in-Human-Trafficking [accessed 28 December 2010] The issue came to
the surface after local media started highlighting the plight of Pakistani
visa applicants who complained of sexual harassment by Swiss embassy
officials. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/switzerland [accessed 28 June 2012] Charity reveals tragedy of forced marriages Adam Beaumont in www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Charity_reveals_tragedy_of_forced_marriages.html?cid=5612814 [accessed 28 December 2010] Thousands of women
trapped in forced marriages in Women’s groups highlight cabaret club
abuses Isobel Leybold in
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Women_s_groups_highlight_cabaret_club_abuses.html?cid=3714668 [accessed 28 December 2010] Cabaret dancers in
Switzerland will still face violence and sexual exploitation, despite
attempts to improve their lot, according to women’s groups. About 1,200 women
come to the country a year, usually on short-term permits, to work in
Switzerland’s 400 cabaret clubs. But
at press conference in Zurich on Tuesday, ProKoRe,
an umbrella group for organisations lobbying for
improved rights for sex workers, said that abuses including dishonesty over
pay, violence and sexual exploitation were still rife. All
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