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hands of traffickers Published
reports & articles from 2000 to 2025 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 Check out a later country report here and possibly a full TIP Report here |
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CAUTION: The following
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. HOW TO USE THIS WEB-PAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of Human Trafficking are of
particular interest to you. Would you
like to write about Forced-Labor? Debt
Bondage? Prostitution? Forced Begging? Child Soldiers? Sale of Organs? etc. On the other
hand, you might choose to include precursors of trafficking such as poverty and hunger. There is a lot to
the subject of Trafficking. Scan other
countries as well. Draw comparisons
between activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims International Organization for
Migration ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Human rights
activists shed light on trafficking practices [Categories – Forced
Marriage, Slavery in the Home, Commodification of Children] 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." [Category –
Exploitation of Children] Japhet Banda, Times of
Zambia, 11 July 2003 allafrica.com/stories/200307140136.html [Last accessed 3
March 2019] 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. Wandering on the cold streets of Lusaka, Tomaida awaits her next client on Addis Ababa drive. Activists Urge
Zambian Government to Crack Down on Human Trafficking [Categories –
Deception of Victims, Exploitation of Children] Voice of America VOA
News, Lusaka, Zambia, 01 May 2007 www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/a-13-2007-05-01-voa41.html [accessed 17 January
2011] Kafukanya says ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country Reports
on Human Rights Practices: Zambia 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/zambia/
[accessed 29 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR The government did
not effectively enforce the law. While the government investigated cases
involving a small number of victims, it did not investigate more organized
trafficking operations potentially involving forced labor in the mining,
construction, and agricultural sectors. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT Child labor was
prevalent in agriculture, fisheries, domestic service, construction, farming,
commercial sexual exploitation (see section 6, Children), quarrying, begging
and mining. UNICEF noted discrepancies between the right to education and
child labor laws in the country; the employment code allows children ages 13
to 15 legally to be engaged in work, which conflicts with the child’s right
to education. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/zambia/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 8 July
2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Labor exploitation,
child labor, and human trafficking remain prevalent despite laws meant to
prevent them. The authorities have struggled to sustain efforts to identify
trafficking victims and prosecute perpetrators. Most human trafficking in the
country reportedly entails the exploitation of women and children from rural
areas in economic pursuits ranging from domestic work to mining and
agriculture. 2017 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2018 www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ilab/ChildLaborReport_Book.pdf [accessed 22 April
2019] 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 [page 1048] Children trafficked
inside Zambia are primarily trafficked from rural to urban areas for domestic
work and forced labor in agriculture. (10; 14; 15) Some children in Zambia
are forced by Jerabo gangs, which are illegal
mining syndicates in the Copperbelt province, to
load trucks with stolen copper ore. (16; 2) Along Zambia’s borders, the
commercial sexual exploitation of children is common. (14) The government has
yet to release information on child labor from its 2008, 2012, or 2014 Labour Force Surveys, although the general Labour Force Survey results, which did not include data
on child labor, were released in 2011, 2014, and 2016. (17; 18). Zambian's plight
highlights Texas human trafficking problem [Category – Exploitation
of Children] 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 [Category –
Prevention] 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?” Human Trafficking -
Danger to Social , Economic Growth [Category – Poverty] Thomas Changopa, Times of Zambia, 16 April 2007 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 [Category –
Deception of Victims] Charles Simengwa, Times of Zambia, March 2005 www.queensu.ca/samp/migrationnews/article.php?Mig_News_ID=818&Mig_News_Issue=3&Mig_News_Cat=10 [accessed 17 January
2011] allafrica.com/stories/200503150016.html [accessed 3 March 2019] 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. He said he liked
me, that I was tall and beautiful enough to make it at top model in South
Africa. I refused, but he convinced me to accompany him and after three days
he organised an air ticket for me,� Fridah said in an interview with M-Films Production. In South Africa,
she was met by a group of men who took her to what she described as a
beautiful place. There were other girls who initially she did not know had
also been lured there in the same way. Fridah only realised what she had got herself into when a man visited
her room one evening and explained to her that he was there to teach her how
to model An African
cleansing rite that now can kill [Category – Religion
& Slavery] Sharon LaFraniere, The New York Times, Mchinji,
Malawi, May 12, 2005 www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/health/11iht-malawi.html?pagewanted=all [accessed 23 April
2012] www.vivamalta.net/VMforum/index.php?topic=995.0 [accessed 19
February 2018] In Malawi and in a
number of nearby nations including Zambia and Kenya, a husband's funeral has
long concluded with a final ritual: sex between the widow and one of her
husband's relatives, to break the bond with his spirit and, it is said, save
her and the rest of the village from insanity or disease. Widows have long
tolerated it, and traditional leaders have endorsed it, as an unchallenged
tradition of rural African life. Twelve suspected
human traffickers arrested [Category –
Deception of Victims] Times of Zambia, 17
August 2004 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 - [Categories –
Prostitution-Adult, Prostitution-Child] 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 Massive child labour in Zambia denounced [Category –
Labor-Child] 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 The Protection
Project - Zambia [DOC] [Category – Poverty] The Paul H. 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 ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** 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 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61599.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] 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. 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] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Street children are especially vulnerable to
commercial sexual exploitation, and the problem of child prostitution is
widespread in Zambia. All
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