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The United Kingdom (UK) is a
significant destination and, to a lesser extent, transit country for women,
children, and men trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual
exploitation and forced labor, primarily from Eastern Europe, Africa, the
Balkans, and Asia (principally China, Vietnam, and Malaysia). Some victims,
including UK-resident children, are also trafficked within the country.
Migrant workers are trafficked to the UK for forced labor in agriculture,
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Emily Dugan, The Independent, 13 August 2007 www.alternet.org/economy/59724/britain%27s_invisible_labor_force%3A_african_children/ [accessed 19 April 2012] Dragan Nastic,
UNICEF Nigeria is believed to be the main
source country on the continent, where destitute families are either paid for
their children or persuaded to give them away believing that they will
receive an education and a better life in the UK. On arrival, children as young as 10 are
kept undercover from British society and forced to work as domestic slaves or
prostitutes. Behind closed and often locked doors, they work long days for no
money, are kept from school and beaten if the work is not done. ***
ARCHIVES *** NSPCC opens first Press Release, 8 October 2007 www.ecpat.net/ei/Resource_newsclippings.asp?id=7 [accessed 2 January 2011] The NSPCC today (8 October 2007)
launches the first advice and information line to protect children trafficked
to the “Identifying trafficked children
can be very difficult, even for a professional working in social services or
immigration. These children are incredibly vulnerable – they might be
regularly beaten, raped, denied food and basic comforts, and have no access
to healthcare or an education.
Trafficked children have often lost their trust in adults because of
the abuse they have suffered. They are afraid to ask for help for fear of
retaliation from their trafficker or being treated as criminals by the 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/2005/61683.htm [accessed 2 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Women
were trafficked for sexual exploitation from Central and Eastern Europe
(primarily the Balkans and the former Soviet Union) and Asia, including Trafficking victims were most
often subject to debt bondage, the withholding of travel documents, false
information about law enforcement and immigration penalties, or threats of
violence against them or their families. Traffickers less frequently employed
physical and sexual violence. Organized international gangs
allegedly were responsible for most trafficking for commercial sexual
exploitation. SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
There were reports that children were trafficked into the country and forced
to work as domestic servants, beggars, pickpockets, drug couriers, or in
sweatshops and restaurants. 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/uk2000b.html [accessed 2 January 2011] [49] In the light of the
socio-economic situation in some of the more economically disadvantaged Human trafficking gang sentenced to six years NDS 7thspace.com/headlines/359712/uk_human_trafficking_gang_sentenced_to_six_years.html
[accessed 19 December 2010] The UK arm of the gang, based in
the Burngreave area of Sheffield, had sought to
lure genuine Polish workers to the UK on the promise of paid work and a
better life. In reality the workers would find themselves being forced to
work up to 12 hours a day and then housed in a derelict property at night, unable
to leave. The scam worked by recruiting the
workers via newspapers and the internet in Poland, and then asking them to
pay money up front for accommodation and the necessary documentation they´d need to work in the UK - on average between
£300-£500 each. On arrival they´d be picked up from
the airport and then taken to the Halcar Tavern, Carwood Grove in Worthing Herald, 21 May 2009 www.worthingherald.co.uk/news/local/worthing_care_home_couple_s_trial_for_human_trafficking_1_244508 [accessed 2 January 2011] David Scutt,
prosecuting, said the couple were part of an international trafficking
network which lured poor Mauritian workers to the country with the promise of
wages four times what they could earn at home. CHELSEA
FLOWER SHOW - He
said a recruitment agency on Mauritius provided cover letters allowing the
workers to enter the country as visitors – but, on arrival, they were put to
work on 13-hour shifts caring for elderly people suffering from dementia, and
paid £450 a month – the sum they had been told would be their weekly wage. Migrants' work stocked supermarkets Martin Shankleman, BBC
employment correspondent, BBC News, 19 November 2008 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7738293.stm [accessed 2 January 2011] COORDINATED APPROACH - It was alleged the workers, who
had been recruited in eastern Europe, were trapped by the gang who placed
them in squalid accommodation and forced them to work for up to 16 hours a
day picking vegetables. The UK Border
Agency Regional Director, Simon Excell, branded the
gang's alleged actions a "modern form of slavery". "Human trafficking of any kind,
whether for sexual or labour exploitation, is an appalling crime where people
are treated as commodities and traded for profit," said Mr Excell. 'Sex slavery' gang jailed in child prostitution case Rachel Williams and agencies, guardian.co.uk, 4 November
2008 www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/04/sex-slavery-gang [accessed 2 January 2011] A gang of human traffickers,
brothel keepers and pimps received substantial jail terms yesterday over the
ordeal of a teenage virgin tricked into travelling
to the Their Slovakian victim had cried
in the dock as she described spending nearly a year-and-a-half working as a
prostitute after being lured to Scores rescued from trafficking BBC News, 2 July 2008 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7485339.stm [accessed 2 January 2011] Police say 167 victims, including
12 children, have been rescued in a major crackdown on human trafficking. DESPICABLE CRIME - The Home Office said Operation
Pentameter Two was the most successful effort of its kind. The majority of victims rescued originated
from Women captured by human
traffickers can be forced to have sex with up to 40 men a day by violent
pimps, police said. VICTIMS REMOVED - But Home Office Minister Vernon
Coaker said about half of the victims had refused
to cooperate with the authorities. The problem was worse among child
victims who were told by those exploiting them that it was not in their best
interests to co-operate. Man Jailed For 'Horrific' Trafficking Offences 4RFV, www.4rfv.co.uk/nationalnews.asp?id=78363 [accessed 2 January 2011] Victims were brought into the Moldovan sex slaves released in tiraspoltimes.com, Apr 22, 2008 www.netnewspublisher.com/moldovan-sex-slaves-released-in-uk-human-trafficking-raids/ [accessed 2 January 2011] A group of girls from EUROPE'S LARGEST SEX-TRAFFICKER - Human trafficking networks and
sex slavery gangs bring young women to the Human trafficking rife in borough, says report Hannah Crown, www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/2184518.human_trafficking_rife_in_borough_says_report/ [accessed 2 January 2011] Human trafficking is rife in It reveals a shocking range of offences
including sexual exploitation, ritual abuse, forced labour, domestic
servitude, forced marriages, and benefit fraud. The study also says there is a lack of hard
evidence on the issue and said the borough's counter-trafficking response was
"greatly impeded" by a lack of clear policy and a "pervasive
attitude that it was someone else's problem". Fighting the evil new slave trade Michael Kelly, Sunday Sun, 2 March 2008 [accessed 3 January 2011] Most of the women have been tricked
into coming into the The other side of trafficking is
worker exploitation. All kinds of
people, including children, are smuggled illegally into the The Child Slaves - Criminals turn from drugs to
trafficking Kate Smith, Herald www.heraldscotland.com/the-child-slaves-1.828431 [accessed 3 January 2011] Child-trafficking in Despite the The Met's Human Trafficking Team
(HTT) has had its first human trafficking sentencing LAWFUEL, Legal Newswire, 16 February 2008 www.lawfuel.com/show-release.asp?ID=17055 [accessed 3 January 2011] In interview the victim, at the
time 31 years old, told police that she knew both Saisho
YANKOV (male) and Asie ISUFOVA (female) from On the fifth day they told her the
only work they had been able to find was prostitution. She told them she
didn't want to do this but YANKOV then made threats against her family back
in Children for sale: David Harrison, The Telegraph, 27 Jan 2008 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576727/Children-for-sale-UKs-new-slave-trade.html [accessed 3 January 2011] The illicit trade in children -
sold by their parents, some while still babies, to criminal gangs and people
traffickers - has been uncovered by a Sunday Telegraph investigation. An undercover reporter was offered several
children for sale by their parents in Impoverished African parents are
being lured by the traffickers' promises of "a better life" for
their children, thousands of miles away in cities including Sex Slaves Bought For £7000 Freed In Police Raid Tom Hamilton, Daily Record, Dec 27 2007 [accessed 3 January 2011] Three women held as sex slaves in The Tales of sex and sadness from inside Amelia Hill, The Observer, 23 December 2007 www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/dec/23/communities.socialexclusion [accessed 3 January 2011] 'I'D BEEN
DREAMING OF A FUTURE AS A WIFE AND A MOTHER' - 'I had been working as a waitress,
dreaming of a future as a wife and mother,' 'He beat me and made me live with
another girl who spied on me. She wouldn't leave me for a second and reported
to this man if I did anything that looked like trying to escape. He forced me
to work in the brothel, but the clients complained because I just cried all
the time. The manager asked me what was wrong. I didn't have the language to
express myself, but eventually I managed to explain. I don't think she felt
sorry for me, but she saw that I wasn't going to earn her brothel any money
because I would never willingly work. She helped me to escape and I went to
the police. This has damaged my life in all directions. I have no dreams now
and no hopes. I have nothing.' Helping children turn life around Paul McMillan, Evening Chronicle, Dec 10 2007 [accessed 3 January 2011] While runaways and vulnerable
children are not new, the spectre of people trafficking
has reared its head on Tyneside in recent years. In March this year a report by
ECPAT – End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of
Children – revealed 13 youngsters, including Chinese and Somalians,
had flown into Three Chinese girls – Weng Mei Fang, 16, Lin Xiu Ming, 17, and He Yun Jin,
17 – disappeared from Elswick Lodge hostel in Park
Close, Elswick, Police uncover human trafficking misery Michael Howie, Home Affairs
Correspondent, The Scotsman, 05 December 2007 news.scotsman.com/prostitution/Police-uncover-human-trafficking-misery.3587165.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] A Romanian woman who was raped and
forced to work as a prostitute is among 20 victims of human trafficking
identified by police in the central belt in the past eight weeks. Most of the women are from the Far
East - mainly A barbaric trade in human misery right on our doorsteps Chris Bond, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/A-barbaric-trade-in-human.3490580.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] "One of the first victims we
helped in the "She was phoned up by someone
and asked if she would like to sell ice cream for the summer in British Police Crack Down on Human Trafficking Mandy Clark, Voice of www.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2007-11-13-voa51-66802857.html?CFTOKEN=95101467&CFID=276666266 [accessed 3 January 2011] Joanne says she was freed after 11
months because her health began to fail and she was no longer of use to her
trafficker. She says he let her go, but gave her devastating news. "He
said, 'I have HIV and I'm pretty sure I have infected you.' I went to a
clinic and found out I was HIV positive which leads to AIDS and I totally
lost my mind." Sold into slavery The Northern Echo, 17th October 2007 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/1765911.sold_into_slavery/ [accessed 3 January 2011] At the back is a young Chinese
woman, the wife of the owner who was sold to him for £10,000. She works as
his slave in sweatshop conditions and is regularly beaten. It is one of these
beatings which will eventually lead to her death. "We found she was suffering from
trench foot and she had been kept in a box six feet by six feet,"
recalls Grahame Maxwell, Chief Constable of North
Yorkshire Police and programme director for the UK
Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) in The www.derryjournal.com/journal/Derry-charity-worker-welcomes-team.3360263.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] "The numbers are quite
significant and it is growing. This place is ripe for it at the minute because
it is very easy for people to be in the shadows. Between the last two to four
months people have been coming to us that have been abandoned - we try to
ensure that they are safe and secure. We have to identify where they come
from - a lot don't want to get into trouble. They have left their families
behind in often small villages and don't want to give too much information
about the traffickers because they are worried about what will happen to
their families." The charity
worker said once the problem is exposed they easily disappear. "That is the worrying thing - often we
don't know where they go. They are cases for concern because of the
duplication of identification, the language difficulty and the fear
factor." Police unite to tackle human trafficking [video] STV video [accessed 3 January 2011] Anna was promised a better life
far from her home in Albania - but then forced into having sex with up to 30
strangers each and everyday. She said: "You have to work even
if you're sick they don't care - you just have to make the money for them
because they need cars then need nice houses, nice clothes." National police campaign to target sex trafficking Matthew Weaver and agencies, The Guardian, 3 October 2007 www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/oct/03/ukcrime.prisonsandprobation [accessed 3 January 2011] The government estimates that up
to 4,000 women and girls are forced into prostitution after being trafficked
from abroad. Last year Pentameter
rescued 88 women and girls, including some as young as 14, who had been
forced into the sex industry. Crime gangs 'expand sex slavery into shires' Sean O’Neill, Crime Editor, The Times, September 28, 2007 genderberg.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2799 [accessed 19 April 2012] [scroll down to September 28, 2007] Immigration from What is less expected is that the
brothel where she was kept as a sex slave is not in Port is prime target for child traffickers Ceri Rees, Daily Echo, 27th September
2007 www.thisisdorset.net/news/1720518.port_is_prime_target_for_child_traffickers/ [accessed 3 January 2011] Criminal gangs are targeting
vulnerable ports, such as Poole, to traffic children they can exploit for
labour and illegal activity into the Trafficked children 'should remain' Metro, 20 Sep 2007 www.metro.co.uk/news/66849-trafficked-children-should-remain [accessed 3 January 2011] Children trafficked into "It should meet victim's
needs and should not be granted in exchange for co-operation with the
law-enforcement authorities. "The
length of the permit should be compatible with the best interests of the
child." Children trafficked from Asia to Nina Lakhani, The Independent,
23 September 2007 [accessed 3 January 2011] Hundreds of young children
illegally trafficked into the Gangs can reap up to £300,000
profit a year from a three-bedroom house converted into a cannabis factory.
Children are brought in by gangs to tend the plants. Many have been found
unable to escape through doors or windows sealed and wired to give off
dangerous electric shocks. Others fear reprisals against relatives if they
try to escape. Police are currently raiding up to three houses a day where
children are being discovered Police chiefs told to declare war on organised
people trafficking Sean O’Neill, The Times, September 20, 2007 www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2493384.ece [accessed 3 January 2011] — More than 10,000 women from
Eastern Europe, Africa and the — Groups of Romanian children are
being smuggled into the country and forced to earn their keep as pickpockets
in — Unknown numbers of men and
women, many from Asia, are enslaved as bonded labour to pay off debts of up
to £10,000 to the criminal syndicates that smuggled them into Britain; Ms
Spence, who has produced a detailed report on the impact of demo-graphic
change on policing in her county, said that the Government was out of touch
with what was happening. Sex workers helping with human trafficking Source: Town Crier - Northants, [accessed 3 January 2011] Sex workers have given police
vital information to help with a crackdown on the human trafficking trade in Cambridgeshire.
The established sex workers have told police working on Operation
Radium that they want to help young girls being held prisoners as sex slaves
by criminal gangs working in the county. Emily Dugan, The Independent, 13 August 2007 www.alternet.org/economy/59724/britain%27s_invisible_labor_force%3A_african_children/ [accessed 19 April 2012] Dragan Nastic,
UNICEF Nigeria is believed to be the main
source country on the continent, where destitute families are either paid for
their children or persuaded to give them away believing that they will
receive an education and a better life in the UK. On arrival, children as young as 10 are
kept undercover from British society and forced to work as domestic slaves or
prostitutes. Behind closed and often locked doors, they work long days for no
money, are kept from school and beaten if the work is not done. 'Evil and disgusting' trade in sex slaves The Evening Telegraph, 06th August 2007 www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/environment/evil_and_disgusting_trade_in_sex_slaves_1_82719 [accessed 3 January 2011] Sickened police officers visited
36 suspected city brothels in a matter of weeks in search of human sex
slaves. Their campaign – Operation
Radium – was launched in May in a bid to identify 100 of the establishments in
Cambridgeshire and find out if they were selling
the services of kidnapped foreign women.
In the space of just six months, a total of seven women – five in Human trafficking: Case studies www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-182404380.html [partially accessed 3 January 2011 - access restricted] Victim A managed to escape from a
horrific cycle of abuse which involved being beaten and raped up to 25 times
a day after she climbed through the window of a Two arrested for human trafficking Edward Chadwick, The www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/1583699.two_arrested_for_human_trafficking/ [accessed 3 January 2011] A Hungarian man and his girlfriend
have been arrested after a teenage girl they forced to work as a prostitute
was rescued from a A police source said: "This
young woman was duped in to coming to the country and has been kept against
her will. F1 fuels human trafficking, activists say The Gazette ( www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=2d953737-bd6e-4f81-b64c-c2755eb489cc [accessed 3 January 2011] Last year, Falling Short of the Mark: An International Study on the
Treatment of Human Trafficking Victims [PDF] The Future Group, March 2006 www.oas.org/atip/canada/Fallingshortofthemark.pdf [accessed 3 January 2011] UNITED KINGDOM - The United Kingdom has failed
to meet the international standards set in the Trafficking Protocol related
to the protection of victims of human trafficking, and is currently reviewing
its policy in this area in light of its recent ratification of the Trafficking
Protocol. It is also considering becoming a signatory to the European
Trafficking Convention. Trafficking victims are dealt with on a case-by-case
basis and routinely deported. Only minimal support has been provided to
victims in recent years, and only general laws exist for their protection
during investigations. RESIDENCE - The Authorities 'failing to stop child trafficking' Gemma onestopcafe.suddenlaunch3.com/index.cgi?board=mis&action=display&num=1180349592 [accessed 26 August 2011] A lack of police and immigration
officers is allowing the trafficking of children into Rape revealed human trafficking BBC News, 19 April 2007 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/6573725.stm [accessed 3 January 2011] SOLD SEVERAL TIMES - Mr
Steer said that during her time in the UK the woman, who suffers from
epilepsy, was sold several times and operated in the Manchester area, before
she was finally trafficked to the restaurant. When she arrived in the Police set up human trafficking unit The Peninsula, archive.thepeninsulaqatar.com/component/content/article/345-united-kingdomeurope/93809.html [accessed 3 January 2011] Police launched a special unit to
target the growing menace of human trafficking in the capital yesterday,
vowing to smash foreign criminal gangs that sell their victims into the sex
trade or use them as forced labour.
Many young women smuggled illegally into the Paul Whitehouse, Yorkshire Post, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Britain39s-shame-over-21st-century.2077506.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] Britain is a key staging point in
a flourishing international slave trade that has seen up to 14,000 women and
children brought here for the sex industry and vast numbers enslaved in
forced- labour rackets. A report by the York-based Joseph Rowntree Foundation today reveals modern-day slavery as a
high-profit international trade and paints a damning picture of the way the
Government has dealt with the issue, which has escalated over the past
decade. Sex traffic: Danielle was 15 when she was sold into
slavery in the Sophie Goodchild and Kurt Barling, The Independent, 25 February 2007 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/sex-traffic-danielle-was-15-when-she-was-sold-into-slavery-in-the-uk-437760.html [accessed 3 January 2011] Danielle was excited at the
prospect of leaving her home in Danielle suspected nothing until
the stranger took her passport once they passed through customs and left her
with two Albanians and a Lithuanian woman. It turned out that she had been
sold for £3,500. The "holiday job" was working in a brothel in Stories of human trafficking The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk/slideshow/page/0,,2013927,00.html [accessed 3 January 2011] [roll mouse over images to reveal
the story behind each image] Amnesty International,
Anti-Slavery International, London-based feminist charity Eaves and Unicef Here is a selection of photographs
from the exhibition and the stories behind the images. Sex trade moves its modern-day slaves into the suburbs David Harrison, The Telegraph, 18 Feb 2007 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1543012/Sex-trade-moves-its-modern-day-slaves-into-the-suburbs.html [accessed 3 January 2011] Graeme Maxwell, Yorkshire police's
deputy chief constable and programme director for
the UK Human Trafficking Centre, said: "The traffickers and pimps are
taking the girls to rented flats and houses in areas all over the Latest anti-human trafficking tactics shared at seminar Elysa Batista, www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/jan/26/latest_antihuman_trafficking_tactics_shared_semina/?local_news [accessed 3 January 2011] In Tyneside centre of slave-girls scam Paul McMillan, The Evening Chronicle, Jan 15 2007 [accessed 3 January 2011] Among its findings, under-age
forced marriages of Somali girls were confined to Trafficking victims to get housing and medical aid Patrick Wintour, political
editor, The Guardian, 13 January 2007 www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/jan/13/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices [accessed 3 January 2011] Victims of human trafficking in As many as 4,000 victims of
trafficking - mainly young women - were involved in enforced prostitution in Tories call for action on human trafficking Elsa McLaren and agencies,
Britain Times Online, January 03, 2007 fightforjustice.blogspot.com/2007/01/tories-call-for-action-on-human.html [accessed 3 January 2011] The Conservatives argue that
removal centres, like the one in Harmondsworth, West Drayton, The party cited the Poppy Project
as better practice. Under that scheme victims of trafficking for prostitution
are placed in a 25-bedroom safe house and given a 28-day period of
reflection. If they decide to co-operate with a prosecution, they can stay
for up to 12 weeks before being deported. Bishop of Maria Mackay, Christian Today, December 21, 2006 [accessed 3 January 2011] The Bishop of Liverpool has called
on the government to ratify the 2005 Council of Europe Convention on Action against
Trafficking in Human Beings, which includes measures to protect and support
victims of trafficking. And Europe and the MPs urge immediate action on human trafficking humantrafficking.org, October 18, 2006 -- Adapted from:
"Sex trafficking 'must be tackled'" BBC News. 13 October 2006 www.humantrafficking.org/updates/434 [accessed 3 January 2011] "We should recognise women trafficked for prostitution through deception, fear and violence as victims of this
serious crime, and not immigration offenders or criminals themselves. "Of even greater concern is
the lack of knowledge we have of the extent of the trafficking of young
children for domestic servitude or, even worse, labour in the drugs
trade." South African Press Association SAPA & Agence France-Presse AFP, www.iol.co.za/news/world/europe-s-first-human-trafficking-centre-opens-1.296106 [accessed 3 January 2011] "Some victims do not even realise they are being trafficked until they arrive and
then find the job they were being promised as a waitress turns out to be
enforced servitude as a prostitute, including being beaten and raped. "Today in Human trafficking problems in Scotland United Press International UPI, Edinburgh, 24 September
2006 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] McCormack, the head of the
organized immigration crime team, said a new trend is emerging, with children
from Caught in traffic Kate Foster with additional reporting by Arthur MacMillan, news.scotsman.com/prostitution/Caught-in-traffic.2813071.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] The situation is chilling - police
and council officials openly admit they are not yet in a position to be sure
of the scale of the problem in Scotland - but they have seen enough to know
that foreign girls as young as 12 are being prostituted north of the Border.
They warn that The first signs of What sickens those trying to
tackle the problem most is the age of the girls involved. Teenagers under the
age of 16 are, police are now certain, being held captive in private flats,
and their pimps are seeking punters from the local population. This is
something which sickens those trying to tackle the problem. Human trafficking: the dark side of the EU dream Ben Nimmo, Deutsche Presse Agentur, rawstory.com/news/2006/Human_trafficking_the_dark_side_of__09222006.html [accessed 3 January 2011] The expansion of the European
Union in Central and The route to hell Louisa Waugh, The Scotsman, 22 August 2006 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] The majority of sex workers in Charities criticise government
indifference to child trafficking Harvey Thompson, World Socialist Web Site WSWS, 26 July
2006 wsws.org/articles/2006/jul2006/chld-j26.shtml [accessed 3 January 2011] Trafficked children are
transported from all over Africa, The victims are often smuggled
into Children from Eastern European children tend to
be used to beg and steal. Many more children are expected to be used to these
ends next year when Child Trafficking in the Ambrose Musiyiwa (amusiyiwa), OhmyNews,
2006-07-25 Click [here]
to connect. The URL is not shown
because of its length [accessed 3 May 2012] She was a teenage orphan living on
the streets of True to his word, her "savior"
brought her into the Three months later, when the
16-year-old Kenyan girl became pregnant, she was forced to continue sleeping
with a succession of men until she was almost due to give birth. The heavily
pregnant teenager was then removed from the brothel, driven out of the town
where she had been held, and dumped many miles away on the streets of Hundreds of Child Slaves Trafficked into Martin Croucher, Epoch Times en.epochtimes.com/news/6-6-6/42400.html [accessed 3 January 2011] Hundreds of children as young as
six years old are being trafficked into The parents of the children 'sell'
their children to the traffickers, sometimes for sums up to £3000, believing
that they are going to a better life. They are brought in on fake passports
and put to work immediately. 'Slaves auctioned' by traffickers BBC News, 4 June 2006 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5046170.stm [accessed 3 January 2011] COFFEE SHOP AUCTION - A CPS conference on Monday is to
discuss airport crime, and its director in west "We are now seeing 'slave
auctions' being held in public places at airports where brothel keepers are
bidding for women destined for prostitution." Appeal over NI human trafficking BBC News, 22 May 2006 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/5006460.stm [accessed 3 January 2011] There has been a call for more
resources to help stamp out people trafficking in Scotland's sex trade goes deeper underground - Shock Scale
Of Sick Trade Scottish Daily Record & Sunday, February 22, 2006 www.thefreelibrary.com/Record+View:+Shock+scale+of+sick+trade-a0142367092 [accessed 3 January 2011] We were told by the girls how they
were duped into applying for college places or jobs, then stripped of their
passports and passed from gang to gang and city to city. Many had no idea where they were
staying. Chief among the slave traders are
Lithuanian, Russian and the Albanian crime gangs so vicious that even
hardened Scottish criminals give them a wide berth. Richard Elias, Daily Record, Feb 22 2006 www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/2006/02/22/scotland-s-6000-sex-slaves-86908-16731536/ [accessed 3 January 2011] Brutal gangsters imprison the
terrified girls in brothels, rape them repeatedly to break their spirits, and
force them to have sex with up to 60 men each per day. Around 7000 women in Skelly said: "Trafficked girls do
not work on the street because there is a lack of control there for the
gangs. "Instead, the girls are
kept as virtual prisoners inside a house or a sauna, where they are much
easier to keep an eye on. They work very long hours and are hardly allowed
out at all." Many of the girls
are virgins when they arrive and the crooks gangrape
them to "break them in".
Rape is also used as a punishment for girls who disobey. Young women being trafficked into capital to work as sex
slaves Raymond Hainey, The Scotsman, news.scotsman.com/edinburghssexindustry/Young-women-being-trafficked-into.2751914.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] In the other case, a Lithuanian
woman was lured to Her story came to light after she
was moved to Trafficked women tricked into prostitution Tryst Williams, Western Mail, Feb 7 2006 [accessed 3 January 2011] Eastern European women have spoken
of how they were duped into a life of prostitution on the streets of One young woman told the Week In
Week Out team how she came to the Consultation on UK’s First National Action Plan to Tackle
Human Trafficking M2 Presswire, 5 January 2006 Click [here]
to connect. The URL is not shown
because of its length [accessed 19 April 2012] The Government’s commitment to
tackle the appalling modern day slave trade of human trafficking moved up a gear
today as Home Office Minister Paul Goggins launched
a public consultation on a national action plan which will build upon
existing tough anti-trafficking measures. The consultation paper outlines
the work the Government has done so far to tackle human trafficking, from
legislation and law enforcement to support for victims, and proposes an
action plan for areas of future work. This plan will take a comprehensive
end-to-end approach covering the different elements of the anti-trafficking
strategy. Traffickers face action to curb sex trade David Harrison, The Telegraph, 01 Jan 2006 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1506740/Traffickers-face-action-to-curb-sex-trade.html [accessed 4 January 2011] The Government will this week
announce a crackdown on the sex trafficking gangs which bring thousands of
young women to The "action plan" follows
the Sunday Telegraph's undercover investigations into the cruel and
fast-growing trade condemned as "21st century slavery". Terry Vanderheyden, LifeSiteNews, www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2006/mar/06030209 [accessed 4 January 2011] Of the countries evaluated: 'I was raped and beaten. I lost the will to run away' David Harrison, The Telegraph, 13 Nov 2005 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1502857/I-was-raped-and-beaten.-I-lost-the-will-to-run-away.html [accessed 4 January 2011] Working at two flats and a
"massage parlor" six days a week, she charges £150-£400, depending
on the time and services supplied - but has to hand over almost all the money
to her Russian pimp. She is one of
thousands of vulnerable young girls who have been trafficked to Man denies trafficking prostitute BBC News, 10 November 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4426268.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] The jury was told on Thursday that
the three Albanian men bought the woman in Sex trafficking gang sent to jail BBC News, 1 December 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4487712.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] The police launched Operation
Rotunda in December 2004 after receiving a tip-off from the BBC's Six O'Clock News, which had started an investigation into the
disappearance of a 16-year-old Lithuanian girl. The BBC learned the girl was ringing her
parents from An undercover operation, lasting
four months, revealed the scale of the operation and revealed evidence of a
number of women being forced to work as prostitutes against their will,
including one teenager who had been a virgin before she was trafficked to the
Sex-trafficked victims to be offered refuge Jenifer Johnston, Sunday Herald, 06
November 2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] It is thought between 2000 and
6000 women and girls are trafficked into the Sex-trade children flown to region Paul Jeeves, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Sextrade-children-flown-to-region.1249308.jp [accessed 4 January 2011] Global crime syndicates have begun
to use Immigrants tell of forced prostitution and slavery as
trafficking gang is jailed Rosie Cowan, crime correspondent, The Guardian, 2 November
2005 www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/nov/02/immigration.ukcrime [accessed 4 January 2011] Detectives believe the gang
brought at least 600 illegal immigrants to the Sex trade gang 'beggared belief' BBC News, 18 October 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/4353344.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] Sentencing, Judge Barber said:
"Their behavior absolutely beggared belief, they had taken two young
Lithuanian girls and transported them to Safety Fears For Women Rescued In Joint news release: Amnesty International and Anti-Slavery
International, 4 October 2005 old.antislavery.org/archive/press/pressrelease2005UKrescue.htm [accessed 4 January 2011] There is serious concern over the
treatment of the 19 women rescued from a Young Women Forced into Prostitution in the LifeSiteNews, www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2005/oct/05100304 [accessed 4 January 2011] A special task force of female
officers led 19 women out of the Cuddles massage parlor in CPS continues fight against sex trade traffickers The Crown Prosecution Service CPS, 16 September 2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] The latest Crown Prosecution
Service case against human traffickers ended today with the sentencing of Viktoras Larcenko, the last
member of a gang convicted for smuggling girls from Man in sex slave case 'kind with a purpose' At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] The woman, who worked as a teacher
and gym instructor in 'Child sacrifices in Richard Edwards Crime Reporter, www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-19328071-child-sacrifices-in-london.do [accessed 4 January 2011] Boys from Africa are being
murdered as human sacrifices in What s New section: The People Traffickers [PDF] -- Source: The People Traffickers, The stopvaw.org/sites/3f6d15f4-c12d-4515-8544-26b7a3a5a41e/uploads/10-6-05.pub.pdf [accessed 4 January 2011] [page 5 and continued on pages 8 to
12] Lithuanian authorities believe native gangs
are recruiting and organizing the trafficking of women to the Police criticized for leaving pimp to rape girl Vikram Dodd, The Guardian, 25 May 2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] A judge called yesterday for an
inquiry into police blunders which left a pimp free to repeatedly rape and
beat a teenage girl and force her to work as a prostitute. Agrol Xhabri, 22, was jailed for 12 years after abducting the
17-year-old Latvian girl from her father's house in east Freedom for Thai sex slave women May 3 2005 -- Source: icSurreyOnline www.genderberg.com/phpNuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=122 [accessed 4 January 2011] Police who raided the brothel,
which was less than a mile from the town centre, uncovered information about
a sophisticated prostitution gang that illegally brings girls from Asia into
the Government officials in sex trafficking ring arrested - Horrifying
testimony of woman sex-slave traded for a Mercedes shakes political
establishment of Yugoslav republic Vesna Peric Zimonjic, Independent, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] The arrests are only a small part
of the scandal, according to sources in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica. It is an open secret in the Balkans that
people-trafficking rings run through The sex-slave routes lead to Hundreds of children 'vanishing' BBC News, 13 May, 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4541603.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] Between July and September 2001,
300 had disappeared, and police fear thousands may go missing annually. Child welfare experts say the figures hint
at the scale of child trafficking, sometimes for labor or benefit fraud. A previous BBC investigation found some
African children were being held by their parents' creditors, so they could
claim extra benefits. Slavery fears for 'lost' children Matthew Chapman, BBC Radio Five Live, 15 February, 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] Neither the Metropolitan Police or the Immigration Service would
officially release the findings but BBC Radio Five Live understands the children
could not be found at up to 30 of the addresses visited during that three
month period. Police discovered that
in some cases the same address had been given by successive children who
could not be traced. African trafficking ring linked to UK BBC News, 8 July, 2003 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] One father in Bafoussam
said he cries every day for his missing 14-year-old daughter. He had persuaded her to work as a
babysitter for £10 a month after ill-health forced him to give up his own job
as a teacher. Far More Lithuanians Sold Into Prostitution In Agence France-Presse
AFP, 25-Feb-05 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] The number of young Lithuanian
women sold for sex in Britain has increased from "single cases to dozens
every month" since the Baltic state joined the European Union last year,
the head of Lithuania's Interpol bureau said. "Nightclub Girls Helped Me Escape Captivity" The Star, www.thestar.co.uk/news/39Nightclub-girls-helped-me-escape.953265.jp [accessed 4 January 2011] The youngster, from Tackle Child Exploitation, Ministers Urged Maggie Stratton, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Tackle-child-exploitation-Ministers-urged.951691.jp [accessed 4 January 2011] Based on reports from social
services, police and immigration, it is known at least 250 children were
trafficked into the Migrants Subject To Forced Labor In The Union Network International UNI, 02/04/2005 www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-9316-f0.cfm [accessed 12 September 2011] This report reveals that migrants
who can legally work in this country are also shockingly badly exploited because
they are unable to enforce their legal rights because of the power their
employer has over them. The report,
'Forced Labor and Migration to the UK' reveals abuse, including very long
hours, pay below the minimum wage and dangerous working conditions in a range
of sectors including construction, hospitality, agriculture, food processing,
horticulture, contract cleaning, nursing and care homes. Employers and agencies who
break the law are rarely prosecuted or even inspected by the authorities. Migrant women forced into cheap sex trade Rosie Cowan, crime correspondent, The Guardian, 11
February 2005 www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/feb/11/immigrationandpublicservices.immigration [accessed 4 January 2011] Sex Slaves Vice Baron Sentenced BBC News, 22 February, 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4288603.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] women kept by Ismailej,
an illegal immigrant, were forced to work seven days a week, for up to 13
hours a day, and give up their passports to satisfy his "love of
money". Brian O'Neill,
prosecuting, told the court that Ismailej was the
ringleader and that he did not regard the women as anything other than
chattels. The Felicity Lawrence, consumer affairs correspondent, The
Guardian, 2/3/2005 www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/feb/03/immigrationandpublicservices.politics [accessed 4 January 2011] A year ago this Saturday, 23
Chinese cockle pickers died at It is not just the sex industry
that traffics and exploits migrants, but our key sectors - food and agriculture,
contract cleaning, hotels and catering, construction and care homes.
Moreover, the state uses migrants' forced labour in many cases - when it outsources local authority care to the private sector,
when it uses agencies to recruit NHS nurses who end up living on £5 a week,
when it uses contract cleaners provided by the cheapest bidder for its
offices, or when subcontracted migrant labour is used on private finance
initiative construction. The Damning report on migrants delayed as government fears
poll backlash Hsiao-Hung Pai, The Guardian, 3
February 2005 www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/feb/03/immigrationasylumandrefugees.immigrationandasylum [accessed 4 January 2011] The publication of a ground-breaking
report on forced labour and the exploitation of migrant workers in It catalogues coercive techniques
used by private employers to force migrants to work for low wages and in poor
conditions, from physical and sexual violence to debt bondage and blackmail. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7728 [accessed 4 January 2011] Human
Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/united-kingdom [accessed 4 January 2011] Illegal migrant jailed for sex-slave ring Helen Nugent, Times Online, February 23, 2005 moderntribalist.blogspot.com/2005/02/illegal-immigration-and-sex-slavery.html [accessed 3 May 2012] An illegal immigrant who made a
fortune from trafficking East European sex slaves was jailed for 11 years
yesterday. Vullnet
Ismailaj, 27, an Albanian, smuggled scores of young
Lithuanian women into Slavery 'worse than ever' - Hague BBC News, 25 January, 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4204675.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] There is more slavery now than there
was at the height of the slave trade, former Conservative leader William
Hague has warned. Mr
Hague said criminal gangs were blighting the Sex slaves trafficker is jailed for 18 years www.thestar.co.uk/news/Sex-slaves-trafficker-is-jailed.910281.jp [accessed 4 January 2011] Sex slaves trafficker is jailed
for 18 years An illegal immigrant has been jailed for 18 years for
trafficking women from Eastern Europe and forcing them to work as prostitutes
in a Men jailed for selling teenager BBC News, 16 March, 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/4355805.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] Three illegal immigrants have been
jailed for a total of 40 years for selling a teenage girl as a sex
slave. The 16-year-old, from Children groomed for sex trafficking Madeleine Brindley, WalesOnline, Nov 9 2004 [accessed 4 January 2011] Children in Groundbreaking sentence increase for human trafficker The Crown Prosecution Service CPS, 29/04/2004 www.cps.gov.uk/news/press_releases/118_04/ [accessed 4 January 2011] Roger Coe-Salazar, District Crown
Prosecutor for CPS Wood Green Trials Unit, said: "I did not feel that
the overall sentence of ten years adequately reflected the enormous human
misery he, and people like him, inflict on highly vulnerable young women.
Accordingly, we referred the matter to the Attorney General as an 'unduly
lenient sentence' in the hope that the Court of Appeal would impose a
sentence that established a sentencing yard stick for this despicable crime.
We will continue with our work to seize the profits gained by Plakici through the exploitation of women." BBC News, 12 August, 2003 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3145687.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] TOURIST INFLUX - Last month the BBC discovered
an international child-trafficking ring based in Leading Joint statement by Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery
International, the National Federation of Women's Institutes and UNICEF At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] Home Office research in 2000,
estimated that up to 1,420 women were trafficked into the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=50363 [accessed 12 September 2011] Malawian women are targeted by
trafficking groups because they do not require a visa to enter the Upon arrival, as the IOM
discovered in the Raids net 13 suspected of human trafficking Sandra Laville, The Guardian,
November 5, 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] They might be told they are coming
here to be a student, but they end up in bonded employment working in a kitchen
or as a fast food chef and paid minimal wages so they can't discharge their
debt. Child sex tourism One At one time this article had been archived and may possibly
still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] CHILD SEX TOURISM - Child prostitutes' sad stories Kim Catcheside, Social Affairs
Correspondent, BBC News, 27 June, 2003 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3023874.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] They told Ms Turner they had been
kidnapped in She told authorities that she and
other girls had been picked up from local authority hostels, and taken
overland to UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=20782 [accessed 4 January 2011] Responding to a job advertisement
in a local paper, she accepted an au pair post in the "I borrowed 350 pounds and
was given a menial job cleaning rooms in a small hotel. No one wanted to hire
me. I didn't have the right papers and I couldn't pay this money back,"
she explained. Later, the Russian-speaking woman who had met her at the
airport introduced her to her Albanian boyfriend, who proposed that Svetlana
work at his sauna providing massages for visiting clientele. "This was a
shock for me. I didn't know what to do," she said. "Suddenly I felt
trapped." But Svetlana was lucky. She was
not subject to violence or rape when she refused to comply with those who
trafficked her to the UNICEF report reveals changing face of child trafficking UNICEF via M2 Presswire, July
29, 2003 www.unicef.org/media/media_13034.html [accessed 19 April 2012] The face of child trafficking to
the The report, Stop the Traffic!,
says that hundreds of known cases of trafficked children are just the tip of
the iceberg. Thousands may be trafficked to the The Government's Sexual Offences
Bill, currently in the House of Commons, makes it illegal to traffic people
into the Dying to Leave Thirteen, www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/dying-to-leave/human-trafficking-worldwide/united-kingdom/1473/ [accessed 26 December 2010] VICTIMS - Up to 15,000 women are
trafficked annually into the Women from East Asia, especially Women are not the only victims. A
2003 UNICEF study determined that the While women and children are
trafficked primarily for sexual exploitation, men are exploited in sweatshops
or in the agricultural industry. The 58 Chinese men who died in June 2000
while being smuggled into National Criminal Intelligence Service NCIS www.ncis.co.uk/ukta/2003/threat04.asp [access date unavailable] HUMAN TRAFFICKING 4.25 Human trafficking is
essentially concerned with the exploitation of migrants as a resource. It
takes various forms, including exploitation as cheap tied labour, for example
in illicit sweatshops producing counterfeit goods. However, many of those who
are trafficked are forced to work in the vice trade as prostitutes. TRAFFICKING FOR PROSTITUTION 4.26 Traffickers use a number of
methods to recruit migrants into the vice trade. Most involve some form of
deception, and exploit the lack of opportunities open to women in source
countries. Traffickers place advertisements in local newspapers and media,
advertising legitimate employment opportunities in the EU, for example as
maids, nannies, bar and catering staff, receptionists, clerical staff,
dancers and entertainers. Advertisements are also placed offering marriage
opportunities to women seeking EU husbands, and front agencies are also used
for this purpose. Other victims are knowingly recruited into the sex trade,
but are unaware of the conditions under which they will be forced to work.
Some trafficking victims are kidnapped, usually in the Balkans and Former
Soviet Union, but this is less common. TRAFFICKING IN MINORS 4.33 Several thousand
unaccompanied minors arrive in the All material used herein
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