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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Zimbabwe.htm
Zimbabwe is a source, transit, and destination country for
men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual
exploitation. Large scale migration of Zimbabweans to surrounding countries
has increased – as they flee a progressively more desperate situation at home
– and NGOs, international organizations, and governments in neighboring
countries report that some of these Zimbabweans face human trafficking. Rural
Zimbabwean men, women, and children are trafficked within the country to
farms for agricultural labor and to cities for forced domestic labor and
commercial sexual exploitation. NGOs believe internal trafficking increased
during the year, largely due to the closure of schools, worsening political
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Reports of Rape and Torture Inside Zimbabwean Militia Michael Wines, The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/world/reports-of-rape-and-torture-inside-zimbabwean-militia.html [accessed 17 January 2011] For Ms. Siyangapi's
secret was not merely her own. Her appearance was also testimony to one of
the least documented — and most brutal — practices of the military enforcers
of Amnesty International documented
cases of rape within the Youth Service in a report released in April. The Amani Trust, perhaps the most active human rights group
currently in Tanya: It’s Better to Die of AIDS Than Hunger www.newint.org/features/2005/04/01/harare-zimbabwe/ [accessed 17 January 2011] ‘Soon after the death of my father
I was evicted from the house where my parents lodged in Mbare.
I went to stay with my grandmother who lives in Mabvuku.
There were 10 of us children staying there and we had all been left by
deceased relatives. Life was difficult because, being an old woman, my
grandmother had no means of sustaining herself and all of us at the same
time.’ ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/zimbabwe.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The traditional practice of offering a young girl as payment to
settle inter-family feuds continues to occur in Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61600.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The
traditional practice of offering a young girl in marriage as compensatory
payment in interfamily disputes continued during the year. Arranged marriage
of young girls also continued. The legal age for a civil marriage is 16 for
girls and 18 for boys. Customary marriage, recognized under the Customary
Marriages Act, does not provide for a minimum marriage age for either boys or
girls; however, the SOA prohibits sexual relations with anyone younger than
16 years of age. Child welfare NGOs reported that they occasionally saw
evidence of underage marriages, particularly in isolated religious
communities or among HIV/AIDS orphans but lacked meaningful statistics on its
prevalence. Musasa Project reported an increase in
instances where families pledged girls in marriage and even unborn babies in
exchange for economic protection. Such girls often "married" well
before the age of 12. There was little information on
the extent of trafficking beyond anecdotal reports of girls exchanging sex
for passage across the South African border, women lured to other countries
with false job promises, immigration officials of neighboring countries
sexually abusing children during deportation, children working as domestic or
agricultural workers, and employers requiring sex from undocumented
Zimbabwean workers in South Africa under threat of deportation. There also
were anecdotal reports that victims were trafficked to border areas and into Anecdotal information suggested
that citizens who emigrated to seek a better life were exploited while employed
illegally in a neighboring country, when being deported, or after being lured
to another country by false employment schemes. The groups at highest risk
were HIV/AIDS orphans and displaced persons. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7 June 1996 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/crc-Zimbabwe96.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] [13] The Committee notes with concern
the persistence of behavioral attitudes in the society as well as cultural
and religious practices, which, as recognized by the State party, hamper the
implementation of children's rights. Mention can be made in this regard of
the difficulties in ensuring birth registration in remote areas of abandoned
and refugee children, as well as of the situation of female victims of
practices such as ngozi (girl child pledging), lobola (bride price) and early marriage, and of disabled
children. Human trafficking: A women’s issue Veritas, The Zimbabwean, Sept. 22, 2010 [accessed 17 January 2011] Women comprise at least 56 per
cent of the world’s trafficking victims. The feminisation
of poverty and the feminisation of migration mean
that women from poorer and developing countries are particularly vulnerable
and the proportion of women trafficked is higher in these countries. Human
trafficking is modern day slavery. Its victims are men, women and children in
search of better prospects in life. Lured with promises of better jobs or
education, they often end up in prostitution or forced labour. Public awareness seems sparse. The media
does not seem to view it as a serious threat in Combat Human Trafficking The Herald, 208.84.116.223/forums/index.php?showtopic=19220&st=250 [accessed 17 January 2011] [Scroll down to COMBAT HUMAN
TRAFFICKING Markets for body parts in the
southern Zimbabwe - A centre for Human Trafficking Saul Chaminuka, The Zimbabwean, www.zimbabwesituation.com/nov23a_2006.html#Z7 [accessed 17 January 2011] The Zimbabwean government has rejected
assertions by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that human
trafficking is a growing phenomenon in the southern African country, despite
the existence of enormous evidence on the ground. Voice of [accessed 17 January 2011] The The White House said Hunger forces Zim girls into
forced marriages ZimOnline, www.mg.co.za/article/2006-05-17-hunger-forces-zim-girls-into-forced-marriages [accessed 17 January 2011] Faced with starvation after six
years of poor harvests, Zimbabweans are resorting to centuries-old traditions
of "forced marriages", known in the local Shona
language as "kuzvarira", for survival. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 7 Civil Liberties: 6 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7737 [accessed 17 January 2011] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 17 January 2011] Nip Human Trafficking in the Bud Hatred Zenenga, Editorial, The
Herald ( www.zimbabwesituation.com/mar30_2004.html#link16 [accessed 17 January 2011] Reports of organised
human trafficking and smuggling gangs in But for the majority of the
victims of human trafficking, promises of wealth and better life often turn
out to be modern-day slavery. Young
men and women are lured by agents who cash in on the dreams of the poor to
make it big in developed countries or African countries with opportunities
like Section IV Clinical and therapeutic responses [PDF] Linda Richter, Andrew Dawes, Craig Higson-Smith,
eds, "Sexual Abuse of Young Children in Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 13 September 2011] [Sect IV, Ch 19] CASE STUDIES OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
IN ZIMBABWE (BY CLARE RUDD) – INTRODUCTION
- In this chapter,
case studies concerning children who were seen at the clinics are presented. Reports of Rape and Torture Inside Zimbabwean Militia Michael Wines, The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/world/reports-of-rape-and-torture-inside-zimbabwean-militia.html [accessed 17 January 2011] For Ms. Siyangapi's
secret was not merely her own. Her appearance was also testimony to one of
the least documented — and most brutal — practices of the military enforcers
of Amnesty International documented
cases of rape within the Youth Service in a report released in April. The Amani Trust, perhaps the most active human rights group
currently in Tanya: It’s Better to Die of AIDS Than Hunger www.newint.org/features/2005/04/01/harare-zimbabwe/ [accessed 17 January 2011] ‘Soon after the death of my father
I was evicted from the house where my parents lodged in Mbare.
I went to stay with my grandmother who lives in Mabvuku.
There were 10 of us children staying there and we had all been left by
deceased relatives. Life was difficult because, being an old woman, my
grandmother had no means of sustaining herself and all of us at the same
time.’ Earning a Life: Working Children in Michael Bourdillon, 11/02/2003 www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=1134&flag=report [accessed 17 January 2011] The important question we need to
address is not the fact that children work, but rather the conditions under
which they work. Stopping children from working for their livelihood is
likely to do them more harm than good. We need to prevent not the work of
children, but the abuse of working children. All material used herein
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