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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Zambia.htm
Zambia is a source, transit, and
destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of
forced labor and sexual exploitation. Child victims, primarily trafficked within
the country for labor and sexual exploitation, tend to be female, adolescent,
and orphaned. In exchange for money or gifts, relatives or acquaintances
often facilitate the trafficking of a child to an urban center for
prostitution. Children are sometimes trafficked as a consequence of
soliciting help from strangers such as truck drivers. Many Zambian child
laborers, particularly those in the agriculture, domestic service, and
fishing sectors, are also victims of human trafficking. Traffickers most often
operate through ad hoc, flexible networks of relatives, truck drivers,
business people, cross-border traders, and religious leaders. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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links have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in
Zambia. 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 ARTICLES *** Human rights activists shed light on
trafficking practices Alejandra Martinez/The University of
Texas-Pan American, October 31, 2010 trafficking-monitor.blogspot.com/2010/11/human-rights-activists-shed-light-on.html [accessed 17 April 2012] Like Adefolahan, Temba, an activist from She added that the
main types of trafficking women fall victim to include forced marriages,
domestic work, and child laundering. This last one is when women, especially
young girls, are impregnated repeatedly and forced to give up their children
for adoption. "We're also
seeing cases of trafficking in families… fathers and uncles selling
children," she said. "A father attempted to sell his 10-year-old
son for $200. Also an uncle attempted to sell his nephew for $6,000." Japhet Banda, Times of allafrica.com/stories/200307140136.html [partially accessed 26 August 2011 - access
restricted] When Tomaida Tembo received news of
her impending trip to To make her
travelling easy, the distant cousin had sent enough money to cover her
travelling expenses and a lot more to help her mother settle down after her
departure. That was five years ago
since the morning Tomaida left the sanctuary of her
mother on a journey that changed her life forever. Wondering on the cold streets of Activists Urge Zambian Government to Crack
Down on Human Trafficking Voice of www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/a-13-2007-05-01-voa41.html [accessed 17 January 2011] Kafukanya says ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/zambia.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Street children are especially vulnerable to
commercial sexual exploitation, and the problem of child prostitution is
widespread in 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/2005/61599.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Women from the country were trafficked within the country and to other
parts of Africa and to The government did
not keep data on trafficking cases and the law did not define the crime of
trafficking, making it difficult to profile the typical trafficker. A 2004
survey of service providers, community members, and children located in four
cities indicated that traffickers come from a variety of backgrounds and
include family members, truck drivers, prostitutes, and business persons.
Foreign traffickers were said to have come from Asia, Europe, and Traffickers often
use promises of employment to entice young girls and women to leave their
homes and families and then force them into prostitution. Human rights activists shed light on
trafficking practices Alejandra Martinez/The University of
Texas-Pan American, October 31, 2010 trafficking-monitor.blogspot.com/2010/11/human-rights-activists-shed-light-on.html [accessed 17 April 2012] Like Adefolahan, Temba, an activist from She added that the
main types of trafficking women fall victim to include forced marriages,
domestic work, and child laundering. This last one is when women, especially
young girls, are impregnated repeatedly and forced to give up their children
for adoption. "We're also
seeing cases of trafficking in families… fathers and uncles selling
children," she said. "A father attempted to sell his 10-year-old
son for $200. Also an uncle attempted to sell his nephew for $6,000." Zambian's plight highlights Shelly Slater, WFAA-TV, February 7, 2008 At one time this article had been archived and
may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] [scroll down] At age 11, Kechepa lived in "We noticed
that all the things they promised in Director Amy Allais pours her soul into
human trafficking ad Fresh Eye Film Productions,
Bizcommunity.com, 6 Jul 2007 www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/17/16017.html [accessed 17 January 2011] A gripping
commercial for The International Organisation for Migration on human
trafficking is definitely a commercial Director Amy Allais, from Fresh Eye
Film Productions, poured her soul into. The commercial
focuses on a young girl, in “The call centre is
now receiving about 100 calls a day. We usually only receive no more than 50
calls a week. Who says advertising doesn't work?” Activists Urge Zambian Government to Crack
Down on Human Trafficking Voice of www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/a-13-2007-05-01-voa41.html [accessed 17 January 2011] Kafukanya says Human Trafficking - Danger to Social ,
Economic Growth Thomas Changopa,
Times of At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] Many of these
children whose parents have died from HIV/AIDS or related diseases lack
parental care and guidance, cultural, social and family ties and life skills
that are usually passed on from generation to generation. They are deprived
of their childhood love and care and many of them lose the opportunity to go
to school. They become victims of human trafficking because they tend to be
attracted to big cities and towns, with the view of earning a living. Child Trafficking: Does It Exist In Charles Simengwa,
Times of www.queensu.ca/samp/migrationnews/article.php?Mig_News_ID=818&Mig_News_Issue=3&Mig_News_Cat=10 [accessed 17 January 2011] When 16-year-old Fridah Bwalya (not real name)
visited a local restaurant on what had started as a normal day, little did
she know that her life would change forever. An African cleansing rite that now can kill Sharon LaFraniere,
The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/health/11iht-malawi.html?pagewanted=all [accessed 23 April 2012] In Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 3 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/zambia [accessed 28 June 2012] Twelve suspected human traffickers arrested Times of At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13
September 2011] Ms Mbangweta said the suspects
were allegedly enticing Zambians by promising them lucrative employment and
businesses in various parts of the world. She said the group
had also used fake passports and the department was making arrangements for
one-way travel documents to send them back.
She said the ring had set up several command posts where agents were
being paid handsomely for facilitating the exit from The Invisible people - Sokari, August 07, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] [scroll down] The African Gender Institute has launched a
new report based on a study of human trafficking and prostitution in In The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/zambia.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - HIV/AIDS, coupled with poverty,
has contributed to the proliferation of street children and child labor in Japhet Banda, Times of allafrica.com/stories/200307140136.html [partially accessed 26 August 2011 - access
restricted] When Tomaida Tembo received news of her
impending trip to To make her
travelling easy, the distant cousin had sent enough money to cover her
travelling expenses and a lot more to help her mother settle down after her
departure. That was five years ago
since the morning Tomaida left the sanctuary of her
mother on a journey that changed her life forever. Wondering on the cold streets of Massive child labour in afrol News, 25 October
2002 -- Sources: ICFTU & afrol archives www.afrol.com/News2002/zam008_labour_report.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] With children
working in dangerous occupations including portering,
street begging and domestic labour, child labour is a widespread problem in The UN labour
agency, ILO, has published figures that estimate that over 550,000 children
were working in 2001. 85 percent of these were involved in the so-called
"worst forms of child labour." According to the ICFTU report,
"as the number of Zambians dying of HIV-AIDS continues to increase, the
numbers of orphans, and the number of households headed by a child, increases
as well. Nearly all of these children are working." Neither were
children safe from the perils of prostitution. The report states that
"there are reports of forced prostitution [in Zambia], particularly of
children, of the trafficking of women and children to neighbouring
countries for the purposes of prostitution, and of combatants from neighbouring Angola kidnapping Zambians and taking them
back to Angola to perform various forms of forced labour." - htcp All
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