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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Cameroon.htm
Cameroon is a source, transit, and destination
country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor
and commercial sexual exploitation. Most victims are children trafficked
within the country, with girls primarily trafficked for domestic servitude
and sexual exploitation. Both boys and girls are also trafficked within
Cameroon for forced labor in sweatshops, bars, restaurants, on tea and cocoa
plantations, in mines, and for street vending and possibly for forced
begging. Reports indicate that traditional
religious leaders may subject individuals to hereditary slavery practices
rooted in ancestral master-slave relationships in some northern chiefdoms. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Beatings, Isolation and Fear: The Life of a Slave in the Pierre Thomas, Jack Date and Theresa Cook, ABC News, May
21, 2007 abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3190006&page=1 [accessed 26 January 2011] Evelyn Chumbow
was once a slave, but not in some distant country. She worked right here in
the ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/cameroon.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61558.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Women
and children traditionally have faced the greatest risk of trafficking and
have been trafficked most often for the purposes of sexual exploitation and
forced labor. Most trafficking in children occurred within the country's
borders, while most trafficked women were transported out of the country.
According to anecdotal evidence by the NCHRF, women often were
"hired" into hubs of prostitution, often in A 2000 ILO study conducted in SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [c]
The ILO confirmed that there was an increase during the year in serious
trafficking issues, and slavery situations have been identified in the Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 12 October 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/cameroon2001.html [accessed 26 January 2011] [60] The Committee is deeply
concerned at the large number of children being sold by their parents and
subsequently exploited in the labor market. The Committee is also concerned
at information on alleged instances of trafficking in children for their
exploitation in the State party and in neighboring countries. The Committee
is further concerned at the possible use of inter-country adoption for the
purpose of trafficking. Human trafficking: The faces and sorrow at the heart of a
UN report UN News Centre, 13 February 2009 www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=29907&Cr=&Cr1= [accessed 26 January 2011] Rose was just a teenager in Rose finally opened the door in
suburban Beatings, Isolation and Fear: The Life of a Slave in the Pierre Thomas, Jack Date and Theresa Cook, ABC News, May
21, 2007 abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3190006&page=1 [accessed 26 January 2011] Evelyn Chumbow
was once a slave, but not in some distant country. She worked right here in
the Trafficking of African women is thriving Francois Tillinac, Agence France-Presse AFP, May
10 2007 www.iol.co.za/news/africa/trafficking-of-african-women-is-thriving-1.352453 [accessed 26 January 2011] In January Italian police smashed
several human trafficking rings involving African and eastern European
females and netted some 800 suspects. Outside Couple Indicted On Human Trafficking Charges www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2005/February/05_crt_050.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] According to the three count
indictment, Joseph Djoumessi and Evelyn Djoumessi violated federal law by fraudulently bringing a
14 year old Cameroonian girl into the "Too often human traffickers
bait young girls with promises of the American dream only to then force them
into involuntary servitude. Civilized society cannot tolerate this," said
R. Alexander Acosta, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights
Division. "The Justice Department takes these charges very seriously and
is committed to prosecuting those who attempt to profit by the systematic
abuse and degradation of others." Woman gets 17 years for keeping slave girl The www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/feb/28/20050228-112709-4419r/ [accessed 1 September 2011] Theresa Mubang
was convicted by a federal jury in November of involuntary servitude and
harboring an alien. Prosecutors said she forced the girl to cook, clean and
take care of Mubang’s young children for no pay. Mubang also beat the girl with a high-heeled shoe,
broomstick and television cable, prosecutors said. Mubang fled shortly after her conviction
and was not in court in The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/cameroon.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - According to a report by the
International Labor Organization (ILO), thousands of Cameroonian children
fall victim to trafficking every year.
Children are exploited as laborers on plantations and cocoa farms and also as
workers in small shops, bars, and households. It is common for a middle-class family in A common tradition in Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 6 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7580 [accessed 26 January 2011] Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide [accessed 26 January 2011] IYF and Nokia Recognize 11 Outstanding Youth Leaders with YouthActionNet Awards International Youth Foundation, 209.200.69.141/document.cfm/30/649 [accessed 26 January 2011] In many cases, award winners plan
to use the funding they receive to strengthen and expand their efforts. In Testimony of Professor Mohamed Mattar Co-Director,
Protection Project Johns Hopkins University Professor Mohamed Mattar,
Co-Director, Protection Project, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] Based upon the analysis conducted
by The Protection Project on these cases, which the Department of Justice
kindly made available, I can say that the majority of victims that are
trafficked into the U.S. come from countries in Africa, especially Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana and Tonga;
Latin America, especially Jamaica, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala; Asia,
especially South Korea, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Thailand and China
and Russia. They are trafficked for the
purposes of prostitution, other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor
and domestic service. Bittersweet chocolate Caroline Tiger, Salon.com, Feb 14, 2003 lrights.igc.org/press/chocolate021403.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] The most recent survey of
conditions on West African cocoa farms, completed by the International
Institute for Tropical Agriculture for the U.S. Agency for International
Development, estimated that nearly 300,000 children work in dangerous
conditions on cocoa farms in the four countries surveyed -- Ivory Coast,
Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon -- the vast majority of them in the Ivory Coast.
The report, released in July 2002, says that of the 300,000 children, more
than half (64 percent) are under 14 years old. Twelve thousand had no
connection to the family on whose cocoa farm they toiled, but only 5,100 of
them were paid for their work. Almost 6,000 were described as "unpaid
workers with no family ties," provoking advocates to
refer to them as "slaves." Regional efforts against Child Labour Union Network International, 01/28/2002 Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
visually displayed because of its length [accessed 1 September 2011] The states involved were also classified.
A supplier state is the victim's state of origin while the final destination
is a receiver state. Victims can transit through states to reach a final
destination. In Child Slavery in Levi Anthony, June 11, 2002 www.talk-uk.com/showthread.php?22634-UK-must-apologise-for-slave-trade [accessed 26 January 2011] [scroll down] A thriving trade in human traffic
has developed in many parts of African "slave ship" highlights spread of child
slavery Trevor Johnson, World Socialist Web Site, 19 April 2001 www.wsws.org/articles/2001/apr2001/slav-a19.shtml [accessed 26 January 2011] There is also a thin layer of
elite Africans who acquire unpaid servants to work in their houses. Countries
in the front line of this trade include All material used herein
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