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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Venezuela.htm
Venezuela is a source, transit, and
destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes
of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Venezuelan women and
girls are trafficked within the country for commercial sexual exploitation,
lured from poor interior regions to urban and tourist areas such as Caracas
and Margarita Island. Victims are often recruited through false job offers,
and subsequently coerced into prostitution. Some Venezuelan children are
forced to work as street beggars or as domestic servants. Venezuelan women
and girls are trafficked transnationally for commercial sexual exploitation
to Mexico, in addition to Caribbean destinations such as Trinidad and Tobago,
the Netherlands Antilles, and the Dominican Republic. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Venezuela. Some of these links may lead to websites
that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false. No attempt has been made to validate their
authenticity or to verify their content. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** VenInfo.org, 2006 www.libertadlatina.org/LL_EN_News_06_2010.htm [accessed 16 January 2011] [scroll down] IS ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/venezuela.htm [accessed 16 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - 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/2005/61745.htm [accessed 16 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– There were reports that the country was a source, destination, and transit
country for trafficked men, women, and children. An underdeveloped legal
framework, corruption among immigration authorities, and the ease with which
fraudulent passports, identity cards, and birth certificates could be
obtained created favorable conditions for trafficking. No overall statistics
on trafficking were available from government or NGO sources. Human rights NGOs
received complaints that women were trafficked to Europe for purposes of
prostitution. Subgroups particularly at risk included women from poor areas.
Undocumented or fraudulently documented Ecuadorian and Chinese nationals
transited the country and reportedly were forced to work off the cost of
their transportation in conditions of servitude. Organized criminal
groups, possibly including Colombian drug traffickers, Ecuadorian citizens,
and Chinese mafia groups, reportedly were involved in trafficking activities Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8
October 1999 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/venezuela1999.html [accessed 16 January 2011] [24] The Committee
welcomes the measures taken to eliminate irregularities in the procedures
concerning adoption (e.g., direct placement of children, known as entrega inmediata), but it
remains concerned that the State party has not reformed its domestic
legislation relating to inter-country adoption in accordance with the
obligations established under the Hague Convention of 1993 on the Protection
of Children and Co-operation in respect of Inter-country Adoption [33] While the
Committee notes the information submitted by the State party on the
trafficking and sale of Ecuadorian children and welcomes the measures
undertaken by the State party's authorities to combat this phenomenon, the Committee
is of the opinion that measures in this regard need to be strengthened. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 21 May 2001 www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,CESCR,CONCOBSERVATIONS,VEN,3cc7f9e86,0.html [accessed 26 August 2011] [16] The Committee is
alarmed about the high rate of domestic violence and the extent of child prostitution
and trafficking in children, and regrets the lack of available statistics on
the number of street children. The Committee is deeply concerned about the
extent of the sex trade involving children and the inability of the State
party to address these issues. FM Rodríguez rejects OAS report on human
trafficking El Universal EU Daily News, english.eluniversal.com/2006/06/08/en_pol_art_08A719169.shtml [accessed 16 January 2011] Venezuelan Foreign
Affairs Alí Rodríguez Araque
Wednesday rejected as biased, influenced and judgmental a report on Annual Report Of Activities By The
Anti-Trafficking In Persons Section Of The Organization Of American States -
April 2005 To March 2006 [DOC] SIXTH MEETING OF MINISTERS OF JUSTICE OR OF
MINISTERS OR ATTORNEYS GENERAL OF THE AMERICAS, April 2005 to March 2006,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 13 April 2006 www.procuraduria.gov.do/PGR.NET/RemjaVI/Informes/Ingles.doc [accessed 16 January 2011] VENEZUELA - At its 35th
regular session, held in Fort Lauderdale, the General Assembly of the
Organization renewed the mandate of holding a Meeting of National Authorities
on Trafficking in Persons in its resolution AG/RES. 2118 (XXXV-O/05)
“Fighting The Crime Of Trafficking In Persons.” In turn, the OAS Permanent
Council, meeting on August 25, 2005, adopted the resolution “Convocation of
the Meeting of National Authorities on Trafficking in Persons,” CP/RES. 889
(1503/05), which was later reviewed at the sessions held on November 30,
2005, and January 24, 2006, and in which it was agreed that the meeting would
take place on Isla Margarita in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on March
14-17, 2006. The meeting on Isla Margarita was attended by national
authorities from the member states, civil society, and international agencies
including the IOM, the ILO, and the UNODC; it was also the first hemispheric
forum at which the countries of the Americas met to discuss issues related to
the implementation of legal instruments for tackling human trafficking,
preventing the phenomenon, punishing traffickers, providing protection and
victim assistance, and exchanging information, experiences, and international
cooperation. One of the outcomes of this meeting was the production of a document
containing its conclusions and recommendations, which will be presented at
the REMJA VI meeting to be held on April 24-26 next in the Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/venezuela [accessed 28 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/americas/venezuela [accessed 16 January 2011] Library of Congress Call Number F2308 .W4
1993 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/vetoc.html [accessed 16 January 2011] Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation Between
Survivors' Rights International SRI, July
17, 2003 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] BACKGROUND - Women and
children are also trafficked into VenInfo.org, 2006 www.libertadlatina.org/LL_EN_News_06_2010.htm [accessed 16 January 2011] [scroll down] IS What a difference a year makes: The Philip Stinard,
VHeadline.com, June 17, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] Venezuelan Vice
Foreign Minister Arevalo Mendez Romero was correct
to brand this report as ?cynical and arrogant,? even if you ignore that fact that the Venezuelan Statement to UN The Dominion Daily Weblog, September 15,
2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] The reason given to
justify this decision consists of an alleged negligence on the part of the Government of the
Domestic media spin suggests Cuba is
trafficking teenage women to Venezuela Patrick J. O'Donoghue,
VHeadline.com, August 27, 2003 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] In a misleading
title Venezuelan tabloid El Mundo reads: report
reveals sexual trafficking from The report does not
offer proof or confirm the spin that the Cuban government is responsible for
the trafficking, or maliciously that it forms part of the current cultural
and economic agreement signed by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez Frias. All
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