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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child slavery in
Burkina Faso, including boy domestic slaves; protection from the authorities
and NGOs; possibility of emancipation, particularly when a young boy given to
a family as a payment of a debt reaches the age of majority (2004-2006) Immigration and
Refugee Board of www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,IRBC,,BFA,456d621e2,45f146f3b,0.html [accessed 24 January
2011] www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2013/11/07/BFA101075.FE.pdf [accessed 1 November
2016] RESPONSES TO
INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs) - Many sources indicated that child forced labour is
still a problem in Burkina Faso (Country Reports 2004 28 Feb. 2005,
intro. and Sec. 5; AFP 5 Jan. 2006). Country Reports 2004 reported that
"security forces . . . intercepted 644 trafficked children in
2003," and that "trafficked children were subject to violence,
sexual abuse, forced prostitution, and deprivation of food, shelter,
schooling, and medical care" (28 Feb. 2005, Sec. 5). According to the
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Burkinabe children are trafficked to
Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gabon and Nigeria; "most are destined for
domestic work but others are bought for sex or to work in shops or on
farms" (United Nations 5 Apr. 2004). Another source indicated that child
slaves in ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] François Anne-Laure,
en collaboration avec Touré
Mamadou et Dah Monique, ECPAT International, 2016 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A4A_V2_AF_BURKINA-FASO_2016.pdf [accessed 26 August
2020] [FRENCH] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Burkina
Faso. The report looks at protection mechanisms, responses, preventive
measures, child and youth participation in fighting SEC, and makes
recommendations for action against SEC. Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/burkina-faso/ [accessed 23 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law provides penalties for conviction of “child
prostitution” or child pornography of five to 10 years’ imprisonment, a fine
of 1.5 to three million CFA francs ($2,500 to $5,000), or both. The minimum
age of consensual sex is 15. A 2014 law criminalizes the sale of children,
child commercial sexual exploitation, and child pornography. Children from
poor families were particularly vulnerable to sex trafficking. The government
did not report any convictions for violations of the law during the year. The
penal code prescribes penalties of 11 to 20 years’ imprisonment and a fine of
two million to 10 million CFA ($3,400 to $17,000) francs for sex trafficking
involving a victim 15 years or younger. It also prescribes five to 10 years’
imprisonment and fines of one million and five million CFA francs ($1,700 and
$8,500) for sex trafficking involving a victim older than age 15. 2018 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, 2019 www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2018/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 22 August
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 257] Table 5. Agencies Responsible for Child Labor Law
Enforcement - Ministry of Justice - Appoints one or more judges who
specialize in child protection issues to each high court to oversee juvenile
court cases. Collaborates with MFSNF social workers in charge of child
protection to conduct investigations on behalf of vulnerable children,
including victims of child trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation,
exploitative child labor, and begging. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2002 UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 4 October 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/burkinofaso2002.html [accessed 24 January
2011] [58] The Committee is
concerned about the increasing number of child victims of commercial sexual
exploitation, including prostitution and pornography. Concern is also
expressed at the insufficient programs for the physical and psychological
recovery and social reintegration of child victims of such abuse and
exploitation. The Protection
Project - Burkina Faso [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/burkina.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] ECPAT International,
November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13
September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] U.N. Economic and
Social Council, Commission on Human Rights, Fifty ninth session, 6 January
2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 11 April
2011] [31] Women’s
Anti-Discrimination Committee Takes Up Report Of Burkina Faso U.N. Committee on
Elimination of Discrimination against
Women, 695th & 696th Meetings (AM & PM), Press Release WOM/1516,
14/7/2005 www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2005/wom1516.doc.htm [accessed 12 April
2011] COUNTRY
RESPONSE
- Regarding awareness of the Convention, a representative said the country
had popularized it, distributed it throughout governmental structures, and
was working on translating it. A monitoring process had been
established, and efforts made to ensure that the Convention was understood.
As for trafficking, she knew of no child prostitution in the country. Identifying Gaps in
Protection Capacity David McKeever,
Consultant, UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR Strengthening Protection
Capacity Project, July 2005 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13
September 2011] [120] Particularly in
the case of single-parent families, refugee women and girls are often exposed
to the risk of exploitation and/or prostitution. When looking for work, and
even when they manage to find paid employment, refugee women are exposed to
the risk of sexual exploitation and harassment. Those who do not find work
are sometimes forced into prostitution. ECPAT: Trafficking
in Children for Sexual Purposes ECPAT International
Newsletter, Issue No : 33
1/December/2000 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13
September 2011] WEST
AFRICA
- Children are sent from ***
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/2005/61556.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
- Trafficked children were subject to violence, sexual abuse, forced
prostitution, and deprivation of food, shelter, schooling, and medical care.
Organized child trafficking networks existed throughout the country, and
during the year security forces dismantled four such networks. Child
trafficking networks cooperated with regional smuggling rings. According to the
2004-05 report by the Protection of Infants and Adolescents office, security forces
intercepted 921 trafficked children, more than half of whom were girls; 158
were destined for international trafficking. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/burkina-faso.htm [accessed 24 January
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
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