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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Tanzania.htm
Tanzania is a source,
transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for
the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. The incidence of
internal trafficking is believed to be higher than that of transnational
trafficking. Tanzanian girls from rural areas are trafficked to urban centers
and the island of Zanzibar for domestic servitude; some domestic workers
fleeing abusive employers fall prey to forced prostitution. Tourist hotels
reportedly coerce some girls employed as cleaning staff into prostitution.
Boys are trafficked within the country for forced labor on farms, in mines,
in the informal business sector, and possibly on small fishing boats. Smaller
numbers of Tanzanian children and adults reportedly are trafficked to
surrounding African nations, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom,
Sweden, and possibly other European countries for domestic servitude and
sexual exploitation. - U.S. State
Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Helping Children Reclaim Their Lives [PDF] 14 February 2006 www.tanzaniagateway.org/docs/reducing_childlabor_tanzania_through_Education.pdf [accessed 28 December 2010] In rural DETRIMENTAL WORKING
CONDITIONS
- Commercial agriculture in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/tanzania.htm [accessed 28 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are reportedly trafficked internally to
work in the fishing industry, mines, commercial agriculture, and domestic
service. Children are trafficked from
rural areas for exploitation in the commercial sex sector. It is reported that girls are trafficked
from Human Rights
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/2005/61596.htm [accessed 28 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Most victims were trafficked internally; boys were trafficked for
exploitative work on farms, in mines, and in the large informal sector, while
girls from rural areas were trafficked to the towns for involuntary domestic
labor. Many of these domestic workers have fled abusive employers and turned
to prostitution for survival. Most victims came from the regions of Iringa, Mwanza, Dodoma Kigoma, Children in
low-income families were at significant risk of being trafficked, and girls
were more vulnerable than boys since girls were considered more of an
economic burden on their families. Girls who completed primary school but did
not enter secondary school were at particularly high risk. The country was
also experiencing a boom in the number of child-headed households as more
adults succumbed to HIV/AIDS-related disease and death, leaving their
dependents at very high risk for child labor and trafficking. Trafficking methods
varied. Some trafficking victims left their homes with assistance from their
family; some left on their own to escape life in rural areas; and some were
transported by someone who had offered to help them find city work,
legitimate or otherwise. There were reports that men recruited village girls
who had completed primary school but were not entering secondary school. The
men offered the girls money and employment and promised the girls a better
life if they accompanied them to urban areas; however, these girls reportedly
ended up in prostitution or domestic labor. Another method of trafficking
involved low-income parents entrusting a child to a wealthier relative o r respected member
of the community, who was charged with caring for the child as one of his or
her own. Some persons took advantage of this traditional practice and placed
the child in a situation where he or she was at risk of being exploited or
abused. Sometimes placement and transport to households was organized by
small-scale freelance agents who recruited children from rural villages. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8
June 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/tanzania2001.html [accessed 28 December 2010] [64] The Committee
notes with concern that there have been reported incidents of the sale,
trafficking and abduction of children, especially girls, primarily for
domestic labor. Diverse Human Trafficking Trends in East
African Region Highlights Urgent Need for Greater Protection International Organization for Migration
IOM, 12-10-2010 www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/media/press-briefing-notes/pbnAF/cache/offonce/lang/en?entryId=28484 [accessed 20 December 2010] In Adult victims were
identified in the domestic sector, as well as the mining, agricultural and
hospitality industries. The IOM assessment
established that Ugandan children are trafficked to all the countries in the
region with Uganda also a destination for trafficked victims from Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda. Trafficking in humans: Another threat
calling for public intervention Bilham Kimati,
Guardian, 17 December 2007 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] Habiba Shegere, 14, (not her real name also an orphan) from The man said he
would take care of the girl and enroll her with a tailoring vocational
training college to help her become a competent tailor, earn a living to
support the grand parents back in the village. She was taken to a
strange family instead of a tailoring school where she worked as a house maid
for eight months without being paid anything.
She worked for 18 hours a day no payment in return for explanation
that she took meals, shelter and better looking second-hand cloths from the
host family. After sometime someone
advised her to be bold enough to register complaints to the police. Unfortunately she
ended up in more misery than ever as the policeman found on duty was
spiteful. He kept her waiting for hours and finally advised her to accompany
him to his house for the night. After two weeks a
concerned neighbour reported the matter to the
police and local leaders as she always heard someone weeping in the house of
the policeman. The local leaders
forced open the door to rescue Habiba who was found
terribly depressed. She complained of
serious abdominal pains. She was taken to hospital only to be discovered that
she had already been infected with syphilis. IOM Launches Campaign to Stop Human
Trafficking in Lisa Schlein,
Voice of www.ginsc.net/main.php?option=view_article&mode=0&article=4825&lang=ge [accessed 28 December 2010] Spokesman
Jean-Philippe Chauzy tells VOA most of the victims
are young boys and girls that are trafficked from rural to urban areas. "They are routinely abused and
exploited either as domestic workers or working in commercial agriculture, in
some cases, in fishing and mining industries," said Jean-Philippe Chauzy. Migration body to monitor human trafficking
impact [access information unavailable] "Many girls
are taken from Iringa and brought to major cities
to work as housegirls but they end up being
subjected to prostitution and other works which they did not expect, this is
internal trafficking," she said. Many young boys,
she said, are taken to work in the mining companies, something which not only
denies their rights but also are psychosocially affected. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/tanzania [accessed 28 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/africa/tanzania-and-zanzibar [accessed 28 December 2010] The Guardian, 25 June 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] Geoffrey Ijumba from UNICEF in Wanyenda: A New Life for a
Child Victim of Prostitution Rose www.dol.gov/ilab/grants/sga0106/Tanzania-FeatureStory-Wanyenda.htm [accessed 28 December 2010] Wanyenda’s* ordeal dates back
to 1997 when she was in her third year at the Igawilo
primary school in the Mbeya region of the southern
highlands of It happened one day
when she was going to school and met a boy from a nearby village who
persuaded her to escort him to the town where he lived. This boy, who was
jobless, took her to a slum area called Mabatini
and she never came back. The boy would bring
home two or three of his friends and force Wanyenda
to sleep with all of them for cash payment. She was tortured, sexually abused
and sometimes beaten by the boy if she refused to provide the services.
Whenever the boy was away, she received customers on her own in order to earn
some money for food. Helping Children Reclaim Their Lives [PDF] 14 February 2006 www.tanzaniagateway.org/docs/reducing_childlabor_tanzania_through_Education.pdf [accessed 28 December 2010] In rural DETRIMENTAL WORKING
CONDITIONS
- Commercial agriculture in U.N. Integrated Regional Information
Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=45464 [accessed 28 December 2010] Kena, 13, left her home
in the northeastern Tanzanian port town of At first, life in Despite being
frequently abused and beaten, Kena endured this
treatment for 15 months, earning 2,500 shillings ($2.50) a month until she
fled, eventually coming across a shelter run by an organisation
that cares for children who escape labour. MODERN-DAY SLAVERY - Mwaituka added that there was also an increase in the
number of girls being trafficked from various parts of the country to Dar es Salaam, where they are sold to work as domestic
workers, sometimes for as little as 20,000 shillings ($20). U.N. Integrated Regional Information
Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=32259 [accessed 28 December 2010] A recent rapid
assessment by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), an associate organisation of the United Nations, has found that child
labour is "common" in All
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