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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Yemen.htm
Yemen is a country of origin and, to a much lesser extent,
transit and destination country for women and children trafficked for the
purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Yemeni children, mostly
boys, are trafficked across the northern border with Saudi Arabia or to the
Yemeni cities of Aden and Sana’a for forced labor, primarily as beggars, but
also for domestic servitude or work in small shops. Some of these children
are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation in transit or once they
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Children in Poor Countries Need Help International Herald Tribune, July 29, 2010 gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/gangs-smuggling-yemeni-children-to-saudi-arabia-1.273504 [accessed 4 December 2011] GANGS SMUGGLING YEMENI CHILDREN TO *** ARCHIVES
*** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/yemen.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are trafficked out of the country to work as street
beggars, domestic help, or as camel jockeys in oil rich 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/2005/61703.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS –
Trafficking was a relatively new phenomenon in the country, and there were no
reliable statistics available. During the year there were reports of foreign
Arab women, particularly Iraqis, who were possibly trafficked to the country
for the purpose of prostitution. They are located primarily in the southern
port city of According to a local human rights
NGO, it was possible that citizen women were trafficked from their homes to
other regions within the country for the purposes of prostitution, including
those under the age of legal consent. The same NGO also believed that such
prostitution may have been organized and speculated that low-level government
and security officials operated or were complicit in sex trafficking within
the country. There were no official statistics
available on the number of children trafficked out of the country. Press
reports claimed that children mostly from northern governorates were
trafficked out of the country to work as street beggars, vendors, or domestic
help in Government investigations revealed
that extreme poverty was the primary motivation behind child trafficking and
that the victims' families were almost always complicit. The traffickers were
almost always well known by, if not related to, the family; parents were
either paid or promised money in exchange for allowing their children to be
trafficked. Many cases were also later discovered to be instances of illegal
immigration. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 June 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/yemen2005.html [accessed 17 January 2011] [70] The Committee is deeply
concerned at the information that many children are trafficked to State of children in Yemen deteriorates, Children’s
Parliament Ashwaq Arrabyee,
The www.yobserver.com/culture-and-society/10015711.html [accessed 17 January 2011] CHILD
TRAFFICKING - The report addresses
the important issue of child trafficking in New study shames human traffickers Patrick Mathangani, The
Standard, May 11, 2007 At one time this article had been archived and may possibly
still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] Countries in the A new report by an international
trade unions’ umbrella organisation says Its report, ‘Trafficking in
Persons — The Eastern Africa Situation’, notes that women and children were favourite targets for well-organised
trafficking rings, which operate freely for lack of solid laws against the
vice. Children in Poor Countries Need Help International Herald Tribune, July 29, 2010 gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/gangs-smuggling-yemeni-children-to-saudi-arabia-1.273504 [accessed 4 December 2011] GANGS SMUGGLING YEMENI CHILDREN TO Child Trafficking: A Growing Problem In Mira Baz, Special to The Daily
Star, January 11, 2005 Click [here]
to connect. The URL is not shown
because of its length [accessed 3 May 2012] The first workshop on child
trafficking in New Report Addresses ... Yemen’s Suffering Kids Peter
At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] The problems of coming up with
accurate numbers include the lack of facilities at borders required to
determine children being sent abroad to work, the vast border region with
Saudi Arabia which makes smuggling difficult to control, and few reports
coming from families. Another difficulty is trying to distinguish between
children traveling with their families or relatives and those being
trafficked. Parents, Children Complicit In Human Trafficking Mohammed At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] Human trafficking is an old problem
in Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 5 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7735 [accessed 17 January 2011] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/yemen [accessed 17 January 2011] Rude awakening Peter At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] “Trafficking is the worst form of
child labor in UNICEF discovered child
trafficking in All material used herein
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