Torture in [Tajikistan] [other countries]Human Trafficking in [Tajikistan Street Children in [Tajikistan] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Tajikistan] [other countries] |
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early
years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Tajikistan.htm
Tajikistan is a
source country for women trafficked to the UAE often through Kyrgyzstan and
Russia, for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Some women are
trafficked from Tajikistan to Russia, Turkey, Iran, and India for the purpose
of commercial sexual exploitation. Men are trafficked to Russia and, to a
lesser extent, Kazakhstan for the purpose of forced labor, primarily in the
construction and agricultural sectors. Children, men, and women are coerced
by some local government authorities to harvest cotton. In 2008, a small
number of Tajik men were trafficked to Poland for the purpose of forced
labor. Boys and girls are trafficked internally for various purposes,
including forced labor, forced begging, and commercial sexual exploitation. -
|
||
|
CAUTION: The following links
have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Woman jailed for forcing child into sex
trade Independent Online (IOL) News, www.iol.co.za/news/world/woman-jailed-for-forcing-child-into-sex-trade-1.226224 [accessed 28 December 2010] Last week a
non-governmental organisation said there was a
growing trend in the abduction and sale of Tajik boys for sexual exploitation
abroad. The Modar
organisation said groups in the United Arab
Emirates, Turkey, Pakistan and other countries were prepared to pay as much
as $70 000 for a Tajik boy between the ages of 10 and 12. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61679.htm [accessed 28 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The majority of trafficking victims were female, single, and aged 20 to 26.
Many were new arrivals to Women and girls
were trafficked from the country primarily for cheap domestic labor or sex
work. Male trafficking victims were primarily used for labor abroad in
agriculture, factories, or construction; some were held as slaves without
pay. Traffickers
included former field commanders--so-called warlords‑ who rose to
positions of power and wealth during the country's civil war. Others,
including women, were powerful local figures who used their wealth to
cultivate patron-client relationships throughout their community to create a
trafficking network. Recruiters were also often individuals familiar to
victims, such as neighbors, acquaintances, or relatives. Victims commonly
were recruited through false promises of employment. Advertisement of such
work was conducted through social contacts; traffickers used their local
status and prestige to help recruit victims. There also were cases of false
wedding proposals and, on occasion, kidnappings in rural areas. Traffickers
generally transported victims by air to the Middle East and by train to Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6
October 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/tajikistan2000.html [accessed 28 December 2010] [32] The Committee
is concerned about the absence of national adoption standards, particularly
in relation to foster and adoptive family screening. The Committee is also
concerned at the absence of mechanisms to review, monitor and follow up
adoptions, and of statistics on foster care and adoption. [50] The Committee
is concerned at the increase in the prostitution and trafficking of children
and women and the absence of an effective, comprehensive and integrated
approach to prevent and combat these phenomena. The Committee is also
concerned at the insufficient data and awareness of the phenomena of
commercial sexual exploitation of children in Tajik Officials Step Up Fight Against Human
Trafficking Radio Free Europe/Radio www.rferl.org/content/article/1078184.html [accessed 28 December 2010] The The Tajik
General-Prosecutor's Office says that 24 criminal cases on the trafficking of
children have been opened during the past seven months. Some Tajik 80 women who had reportedly
fallen victim to traffickers have been brought back from foreign countries in
the past four years. Human Trafficking Fuelled by Ignorance Institute for War & Peace Reporting,
News Briefing Central iwpr.net/report-news/human-trafficking-fuelled-ignorance [accessed 28 December 2010] Gulchehra Mirzoeva, director of Modar, an
NGO that works on human trafficking, says most migrants do not have the
knowledge that they need to defend themselves abroad. Most of the million
migrant workers who leave Tajikistan every year do not know the language of
the country they end up in or its laws, she explains. That leaves them wide open to exploitation,
and the young are particularly at risk.
Mirzoeva believes that not enough is being
done to raise awareness among young people of the dangers of human
trafficking. Criminal gangs are well
aware of this ignorance, and use it to “lure young people into slavery”, said
Firuz Saidov, an
independent expert on social affairs. REGNUM News Agency, 07/06/2007 www.regnum.ru/english/853542.html [accessed 28 December 2010] At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly also be accessible [here]
The source drew
attention to the fact that the ILO and UNDP initiative is aimed at
encouraging effort of all national partners in the migration sphere in order
to increase protection of Tajik workers abroad and establish decent working
conditions in the home country. According to the ILO, pilot projects will be
conducted in the Rasht Valley (eastern Tajikistan), an economically
underdeveloped area with the highest migration rate in the country. According to the
Tajik Labor and Social Protection Ministry, about 600,000 Tajik workers are
employed abroad. Human Trafficking Business Booming In Source: Pravda.Ru,
30 September 2005 english.pravda.ru/news/world/30-09-2005/67181-0/ [accessed 28 December 2010] Twenty-six women
were returned to The Curse of Cotton: International Crisis Group, [accessed 28 December 2010] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- The economics of Central Asian cotton are simple and exploitative. Millions of the rural poor work for little
or no reward growing and harvesting the crop.
Forced and child labor and other abuses are common. Schoolchildren are still regularly required
to spend up to two months in the cotton fields in Stephen Lewis speaking on gender and
HIV/AIDS
[TEXT] Text
of a speech by Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa,
delivered at the At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] Domestic violence
is another major issue in the region, and can be so severe that young wives
in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan see no way out other than suicide -
usually though the horrific method of self-immolation, which can result in
terrible, if not fatal, injuries. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/tajikistan [accessed 28 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/tajikistan [accessed 28 December 2010] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, August 26,
2008 [accessed 28 December 2010] Library of Congress Call Number DK851 .K34
1997 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/tjtoc.html [accessed 28 December 2010] Essential Background: Overview of human
rights issues in Human Rights Watch World Report 2005, 12
January 2005 www.hrw.org/legacy/english/docs/2005/01/13/tajiki9897.htm [accessed 28 December 2010] HUMAN TRAFFICKING - Human
trafficking is a significant problem in Woman jailed for forcing child into sex
trade Independent Online (IOL) News, www.iol.co.za/news/world/woman-jailed-for-forcing-child-into-sex-trade-1.226224 [accessed 28 December 2010] Last week a
non-governmental organisation said there was a
growing trend in the abduction and sale of Tajik boys for sexual exploitation
abroad. The Modar
organisation said groups in the United Arab
Emirates, Turkey, Pakistan and other countries were prepared to pay as much
as $70 000 for a Tajik boy between the ages of 10 and 12. Antoine Blua with
Sojida Djakhfarova of
RFE/RL's Tajik Service, Radio Free Europe/Radio www.rferl.org/content/article/1052431.html [accessed 28 December 2010] Madina remembers vividly
her ordeal at the hands of a human trafficker. This Tajik single mother was
desperate to secure a better life for herself and her two children.
Responding to an offer from a man she didn't know, she left Tajikistan with
the hope of a respectable job and a good salary. "I was working
in a local market [in Tajikistan]. One day a man talked to me and asked about
my life. I told him that it was too hard, that I had a lot of problems, that
I had two children and not enough money to feed them," she says. "I
[am] divorced from my husband. Then he said: 'If you want you can come with
me abroad. There are a lot of jobs [there] and I can help you to find one.' I
believed what he said and I followed him." Trafficking in women is a problem for
Tajikistan BBC Monitoring International Reports, 09 February 2002 www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-85316970/trafficking-women-problem-tajikistan.html [partially accessed 28 December 2010 -
access restricted] "The
trafficking in women and girls from IOM Study Reveals Trends In Trafficking In
Women From CNEWS, 27 November 2001 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] [scroll down to
August 17, 2001] (International
Organization for Migration – All
material used herein reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107
for noncommercial, nonprofit, and educational use. PLEASE RESPECT COPYRIGHTS OF COMPONENT
ARTICLES. Cite this webpage as: Patt,
Prof. Martin, "Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery - |
Torture in [Tajikistan] [other countries]Human Trafficking in [Tajikistan Street Children in [Tajikistan] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Tajikistan] [other countries]