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hands of traffickers Published reports & articles from 2000 to 2025 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Uruguay.htm
Uruguay is primarily
a source and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the
purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Most victims are
women and girls trafficked within the country to border and tourist areas for
commercial sexual exploitation; some boys are also trafficked for the same
purpose. Occasionally, parents facilitate the exploitation of their children
in prostitution, and impoverished parents in rural areas have turned over
their children for forced domestic and agricultural labor. Lured by false job
offers, some Uruguayan women have been trafficked to Spain and Italy for
commercial sexual exploitation. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 .. Check out a later country report here and possibly a full TIP Report here |
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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims International Organization for
Migration ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child Labour : Various Forms of Child Labour UNICEF Report 1997 –
The State of World’s children SACCS lokendrakaushik.blogspot.com/2007/07/child-laber-various-forms-of-chield.html [accessed 7 January
2011] Domestic Service -
Children in domestic servitude may well be the most vulnerable and exploited
children of all, as well as the most difficult to protect. They are often
extremely poorly paid or not paid at all, terms and conditions depend on
whims and fancies of their employees and take no account of their legal
rights; they are deprived of schooling, play and social activity, and
emotional support from friends and family. They are vulnerable to physical
and sexual abuse. The isolationism
makes it difficult to discuss exact numbers. Local surveys have however
reflected on the gravity of the problem. ·
A survey of domestic workers in Uruguay
found that 34% had begun working before they were 14. ***
ARCHIVES *** Former sex slave
leads Uruguay's first march against human trafficking Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Bogota, 30 July 2019 [accessed 31 July
2019] Ferrini, who said she was
ensnared in forced street prostitution after her mother “sold” her, will join
hundreds of campaigners in the streets of Montevideo, capital of this nation
of 3.5 million where the most common human trafficking involves women and
girls forced into sex work. Ferrini says she was
sexually exploited for 37 years on the city streets of Chile, Paraguay and
Argentina and in Europe, forced to have sex with up to 30 men a day. In recent years, women from the Dominican
Republic, Cuba and Venezuela are increasingly being trafficked to Uruguay
where they are sexually exploited in bars and brothels, Ferrini
said. Often from poor families, the women are
preyed upon by traffickers who pay for their flights and offer false promises
of a better life and well-paid jobs in Uruguay. 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Uruguay 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/uruguay/
[accessed 29 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR Foreign workers, particularly from
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Peru, and
Venezuela, were vulnerable to forced labor in agriculture, construction,
domestic service, cleaning services, elderly care, wholesale stores, textile
industries, agriculture, fishing, and lumber processing. Domestic workers
employed in the less-monitored interior of the country were at greater risk
of trafficking. Cuban and Venezuelan migrant workers were subject to forced
agricultural labor in Canelon Chico, north of
Montevideo. Migrant women were the most vulnerable as they were often exposed
to sexual exploitation. Foreign workers aboard foreign-flagged fishing
vessels docked at the Montevideo port and in Uruguay’s waters may have been
subjected to abuses indicative of forced labor, including unpaid wages,
confiscated identification, a complete absence of medical and dental care,
and physical abuse. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT The main child labor activities reported in
the interior of the country were work on small farms, maintenance work,
animal feeding, fishing, cleaning milking yards, cattle roundup, beauty
shops, at summer resorts, and as kitchen aids. In Montevideo the main labor
activities were in the food industry, including supermarkets, fast food
restaurants, and bakeries, and in services, gas stations, customer service,
delivery services, cleaning, and kitchen aid activities. Informal-sector
child labor continued to be reported in activities such as begging, domestic
service, street vending, garbage collection and recycling, construction, and
in agriculture and forestry sectors, which were generally less strictly
regulated and where children often worked with their families. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/uruguay/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 8 July
2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Individuals generally enjoy equality of
opportunity. The monthly minimum wage was increased in July 2019 from 15,000
pesos ($430) to 15,650 ($450), and is expected to increase again to 16,300
pesos ($465) in 2020, which would be the highest monthly minimum wage in
Latin America. According to reports, the government is not
doing enough to combat transnational trafficking, and laws do not prohibit
internal trafficking. Uruguay and Sexual
Exploitation of Children and Adolescents [PDF] Martín Marzano Luissi, President National Children’s Institute, Regional
Governmental Congress on Sexual Exploitation of Children www.iin.oea.org/Congreso%20Explotation%20Sexual/M.Marzano_Uruguay_ingles.PDF [accessed 7 January
2011] 1.1 NATIONAL CHILDREN’S INSTITUTE - BRIEF
DESCRIPTION OF THE AGENCY - Section 1 of the Code of Children defines the
National Children’s Institute as “the agency overseeing all aspects of life
and welfare of minors from conception until their majority”. The Institute was created by law 15977
dated 14 September 1988 as a legal decentralized service domiciled at
Montevideo. Third Report on the
Situation of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents in
the Americas 2002 [PDF] www.iin.oea.org/Explotacion%20sexual/Informes/tercero/Tercer.Informe.Ex.Sx.Ingles.pdf [accessed 7 January
2011] III. AREA OF PROTECTION - The countries
were asked if they had recently implemented legal reforms to combat
commercial and noncommercial sexual exploitation based on the convention on
the Rights of the Child and other international juridical instruments. All
the countries responded affirmatively except Uruguay (which has not implemented reforms yet) and Panama which
had no information. Against the Sexual
Exploitation of Children Raul Ronzoni, Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/40/127.html [accessed 7 January
2011] In the only survey
of the issue carried out in The Department of
Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/uruguay.htm [accessed 7 January
2011] www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2017/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 8 May
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - Forced or bonded labor, including by children, is
prohibited by the Constitution. The
Commercial or Noncommercial Sexual Violence Against Children, Adolescents, and
the Handicapped law addresses pornography, prostitution, and trafficking
involving minors. Prison terms for trafficking children in or out of
the country or contributing to the prostitution of a child range from 2 to 12
years. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 11 October 1996 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/uruguay1996.html [accessed 7 January
2011] [6] The Committee
is concerned at the insufficient measures adopted to harmonize national
legislation with the principles and provisions of the Convention, in spite of
the fact that international treaties ratified by ***
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/2005/61744.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The country was a source, destination, and transit point for trafficked persons,
and internal trafficking was a problem. Trafficking reportedly occurred
primarily to and from In January
authorities discovered an alien smuggling ring, which had engineered the
illegal entry into the country of more than 100 Chinese citizens, 15 of whom
were found to have been subjected to debt bondage. All victims were males
between the ages of 20 and 38. Under threat of violence, the victims were
forced to work 18 to 20 hours per day on a rice farm while waiting to
complete their onward travel to the All
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