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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/BurkinaFaso.htm
Burkina Faso is a source, transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Most victims are children, trafficked within the country from rural areas to urban centers such as Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso, for domestic servitude, sexual exploitation, and forced labor in gold mines and stone quarries, and the agriculture sector. Burkinabè children are also trafficked for the same purposes to other West African countries, most notably to Côte d’Ivoire, where many are subjected to forced agricultural labor, including on cocoa farms. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Nigerian ladies rescued from prostitution syndicate’s den
in Burkina Faso Chris Anucha and Matthew Dike,
Daily Sun, February 2, 2006 64.182.81.172/webpages/features/crimewatch/2006/feb/02/crimewatch-2-02-2006-002.htm [accessed 29 August 2011] Tony was said to have promised to
take Rita and Lovina to Children saved from 'slavery' Agence France-Presse
AFP, www.news24.com/Africa/News/Children-saved-from-slavery-20040507 [accessed 24 January 2011] Police in The traffickers had managed to win
the confidence of the children's parents by convincing them that the
youngsters were to be taken to The official daily Sidwaya reported that the real fate of such victims,
snatched in several provinces in ***
ARCHIVES *** 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] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Studies indicate that a significant proportion of trafficking
activity is internal. Children are
trafficked into Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61556.htm [accessed 24 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The
country was an occasional source for women who traveled to 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. 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] [54] While welcoming the efforts
undertaken by the State party to combat child trafficking through a national
program and, in particular, the adoption of a travel document with five other
countries of the region, the Committee is deeply concerned at the number of
trafficked children who are exploited in the State party and in neighboring
countries. 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] Many sources indicated that child forced
labour is still a problem in NGOs Work To Eradicate Human Trafficking, Help Victims presszoom.com/story_134115.html [accessed 24 January 2011] U.S.-funded nongovernmental
organizations around the world are working to prevent human trafficking,
provide resources to victims and arrest and prosecute child-sex offenders.
From Africa to Europe to PREVENTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING - The anti-trafficking network in
Nigerian ladies rescued from prostitution syndicate’s den
in Burkina Faso Chris Anucha and Matthew Dike,
Daily Sun, February 2, 2006 64.182.81.172/webpages/features/crimewatch/2006/feb/02/crimewatch-2-02-2006-002.htm [accessed 29 August 2011] Tony was said to have promised to
take Rita and Lovina to The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/burkina.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 5 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7576 [accessed 24 January 2011] UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, 6 April
2004 www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=49418 [accessed 24 January 2011] According to government
statistics, there were 2.1 million orphans and abandoned children in Children, separated from their
families by unscrupulous individuals who promise the impoverished parents
that the child will have better life with another family, end up with no one
to protect them. Many are little more than unpaid domestic slaves. - htsc Child trafficking projects in West Africa - Burkino Faso Stop Child Trafficking, 01.06.2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] Their luggage is next to nothing.
Because when the young boys and girls from the south of Children saved from 'slavery' Agence France-Presse
AFP, www.news24.com/Africa/News/Children-saved-from-slavery-20040507 [accessed 24 January 2011] Police in The traffickers had managed to win
the confidence of the children's parents by convincing them that the
youngsters were to be taken to The official daily Sidwaya reported that the real fate of such victims,
snatched in several provinces in Labour standards violated in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali AFROL News, 30 June 2004 [accessed 23 January 2011] Although www.migrationint.com.au/news/australia/jul_2001-21mn.asp [accessed 24 January 2011] CHILD TRAFFICKING - In a high-profile campaign by
the government of the Since January, 350 alleged child
slaves have been returned. The Ivorian government agrees that child slavery
is a problem but denies it is widespread on the cocoa plantations. It claims
that the children, traffickers and their sponsors are all foreigners and that
Ivorian farmers are not to blame. The country has tightened its borders
controls, especially with Child Labour Persists Around The World: More Than 13
Percent Of Children 10-14 Are Employed International Labour Organisation (ILO) News, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 4 September 2011] "Today's child worker will be
tomorrow's uneducated and untrained adult, forever trapped in grinding
poverty. No effort should be spared to break that vicious circle", says
ILO Director-General Michel Hansenne. Among the countries with a high
percentage of their children from 10-14 years in the work force are: Mali,
54.5 percent; Burkina Faso, 51;
Niger and Uganda, both 45; Kenya, 41.3; Senegal, 31.4; Bangladesh, 30.1;
Nigeria, 25.8; Haiti, 25; Turkey, 24; Côte d'Ivoire, 20.5; Pakistan, 17.7;
Brazil, 16.1; India, 14.4; China, 11.6; and Egypt, 11.2. All material used herein
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