Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Poverty drives the unsuspecting poor into the
hands of traffickers Published reports & articles from 2000 to 2025 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Turkmenistan.htm
Turkmenistan is a
source country for women trafficked primarily to Turkey but reportedly also
to the UAE, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation. Men and women are trafficked to Turkey for
the purpose of domestic servitude and forced labor, specifically in textile
sweatshops. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2009 Check
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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims International Organization for Migration ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Prostitution
on the rise UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report/28974/turkmenistan-prostitution-on-the-rise [accessed 8 March 2015] www.irinnews.org/news/2005/09/05/prostitution-rise [accessed 27
February 2019] There is an unprecedented situation in Turkmenistan when [some] husbands, fathers and brothers push their wives, daughters and sisters into illegal ways, including prostitution, because they don't have a job and means to get by, Even more disturbing, the report alleged that parents had taken to selling their daughters and setting up brothels in their homes in this otherwise traditional society. International
Women's Rights Action Watch - Country Reports - IWRAW Director
Marsha A. Freeman with the assistance of Cram-Dalton Scholar Natalie Hoover Prepared for the UN Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 35th Session, May 2006 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12
September 2011] hrlibrary.umn.edu/iwraw/publications/countries/turkmenistan.htm [accessed 27
February 2019] ARTICLE 6 TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION - “In the case of
Turkmenistan, gathering any firm data and conducting interviews, with the
exception of basic information from five individuals who had been part of
NGOs, proved impossible. The author experienced this unease directly
whilst in Turkmenistan, where many of those attending the roundtable declined
to be interviewed face to face, and those who did agree spoke in
whispers. No amount of interviewing skill or sophisticated methodology
can overcome a pervasive sense of fear for expressing a point of view.” “Because getting out of Turkmenistan is
difficult,” she said, “I allowed myself to be smuggled out of here via Iran,
but I was told I would have a good job working for an Arab family in
Dubai.” After an arduous road journey across Iran and a Gulf crossing
by boat, she found herself working in a Russian syndicate-run brothel in
Dubai. “It was horrific. I worked all night, every night, for six
days, and was beaten if I refused to perform,” she added tearfully. “I
know I was stupid,” she added, “but there’s nothing, nothing, nothing for us
here.” ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Turkmenistan U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/turkmenistan/
[accessed 28 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR Workers in
construction and rural residents were particularly vulnerable to forced labor
and trafficking. Isolated reports suggested that during the year officials
might have also coerced farmers to cultivate silkworms under threat of land seizure
or assessment of a financial penalty. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT In June, Radio Azatlyk reported that children whose parents paid the
school administration for 20-day summer educational camps in Lebap Province and Darganatinsky
District were engaged in forced labor in cotton and potato fields. Children
were forced to work for several days and reportedly were not provided food or
water. Children complained to their parents about the labor, but parents did
not take action because they feared the school would retaliate and give their
children poor grades. Schools told the parents the children would be forced
to work until the potatoes were fully harvested in July. Authorities and
state-run media denied the abusive treatment of children and instead reported
“a happy life for children.” Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/turkmenistan/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 8 July
2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? The government
forces thousands of students, public employees, and other citizens to participate
in the annual cotton harvest with little or no pay. Impoverished residents of
rural areas are especially vulnerable to trafficking abroad for forced labor
or sexual exploitation, and the government does little to address the
problem. The Protection
Project - Turkmenistan [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/turkemenistan.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS
THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE – An especially
important social institution in Central Asian societies that seems to have
particular bearing on the problem of trafficking is the practice of arranged
and forced marriages. This practice may explain why it has been relatively
easy for traffickers to deceive young Central Asian women with promises of
marriage to rich foreigners. Finally, it has
been suggested that the geographic location of the Central Asian states
contributes to the increasing levels of trafficking in persons in the region.
In particular, the location of these countries “between the main destination
countries in East Asia and the International
Gender Conference Underway UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, 23 April 2004 www.irinnews.org/report/24210/turkmenistan-international-gender-conference-underway [accessed 9 March
2015] Although the extent
of the problem of human trafficking in Turkmenistan is not very high compared
to some other Central Asian or former Soviet republics, the fast pace of
economic development and the difference in the economic situation between
Turkmenistan and some other countries could change this, he said. "With a recent announcement of more
flexible exit procedures there will more and more possibilities for Turkmen
citizens to travel abroad," Milovic said. State Department
International Visitor Program ( Polaris Project ~
Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12
September 2011] [Scroll down to June
14, 2005] STATE
DEPARTMENT INTERNATIONAL VISITOR PROGRAM ( Europe
'ignoring Turkmen human rights abuses' Jerome Taylor, The
Independent, 24 Jun 2006 eu-digest.blogspot.com/2006/06/independent-online-europe-ignoring.html [accessed 3 May
2012] The EU has been
accused of ignoring human rights abuses in "The EU is
being completely hypocritical," he said. "We isolate a country like
"We are
profoundly concerned that those detained are at risk of torture and ill
treatment," said Holly Cartner, the director
of the Europe and Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/turkmenistan [accessed 7 May
2020] Turkmenistan
remains an extremely repressive country. The government severely restricts all
fundamental rights and freedoms, including freedoms of association,
expression, and religion. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, his relatives and their associates
control all aspects of public life, and the authorities encroach on private
life. The government carries out forced evictions without adequately
compensating those affected. The government continues to conceal the fate and
whereabouts of dozens of people forcibly disappeared following their
imprisonment during waves of arrests in the late 1990s and early 2000s,
although it has begun to return to families the bodies of several inmates
forcibly disappeared years ago who have recently died in custody. Activists
and independent correspondents critical of the government face increased
intimidation, harassment, physical attacks and imprisonment. The country
remains closed to any independent scrutiny.. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61681.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– In December 2004 the IOM reported that airport and border officials
facilitated the repatriation of a trafficking victim from There were six
known cases of trafficking in persons and one successful prosecution on
charges of sexual exploitation, slavery, and encouraging deceitful border
crossing. Victims involved in
these cases were reportedly trafficked to All
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