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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/CostaRica.htm
Costa Rica is a source, transit, and destination country
for women and children trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.
To a lesser but increasing extent, Costa Rica is a source, transit, and
destination country for men, women, and children trafficked into forced
labor, particularly in agriculture, construction, restaurant work, the
fishing industry, and as domestic servants.
- U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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CAUTION: The following links have been culled
from the web to illuminate the situation in ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child smuggling is good business - official South African Press Association SAPA & Agence France-Presse AFP, www.iol.co.za/news/world/child-smuggling-is-good-business-official-1.113611 [accessed 30 January 2011] ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/costa-rica.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The commercial sexual exploitation of children is a continuing
problem in Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61722.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Although
the law prohibits the trafficking of women and minors for the purpose of
prostitution or forced labor, there is no comprehensive legislation to
address all forms of trafficking. The lack of a comprehensive
anti-trafficking law inhibited the government's ability to prosecute and
convict traffickers, and prosecutors relied on several criminal statutes to
bring traffickers to justice. There were reports that persons were trafficked
to, from, and within the country, most often for commercial sexual
exploitation. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 June 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/costarica2005.html [accessed 30 January 2011] [35] The Committee welcomes the
proposed amendment of the Adoption Act as a follow up to its previous
recommendation to review its legislation in order to bring it in full
compliance with article 21 of the Convention and the 1993 Hague Convention on
the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-country
Adoption. But it remains concerned that this bill is still pending with the
Legislative Assembly and that the practice of private or direct adoption
which results in cases of trafficking is still not effectively prohibited. Child Trafficking Network Arrested in Claire www.costaricapages.com/blog/costa-rica-news/child-trafficking/671 [accessed 30 January 2011] At 6am this morning the Judicial
Investigation Organization (OIJ) broke up another human trafficking
ring, which was dedicated exclusively to the trafficking of minors less than
1 year of age. A total of 14 arrests were made, including a female
Family Judge who had been working in Liberia for 15 years on cases including
adoption of minors. Her computer and documents were confiscated from the OIJ
in Liberia to undergo investigation in San Jose. The judge was said to be
facilitating the sale of the minors who were obtained either illegally or purchased
from poor and indigenous families who did not want the children for around
$50 each, for a portion of the profits. They then sold the children for an
estimated $10,000. The group would contact pregnant women in free
clinics who could not afford the children and then have them put up for
adoption. Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/costa.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7589 [accessed 30 January 2011] Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide www.hrw.org/americas/costa-rica [accessed 30 January 2011] Authorities Probe Possible Child-Trafficking Network Tim Rogers, The Tico Times
Online, Daily Edition: At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 4 September 2011] Child Welfare Agency (PANI) and
judicial authorities yesterday continued to investigate a possible
international child-trafficking network operating out of Child smuggling is good business - official South African Press Association SAPA & Agence France-Presse AFP, www.iol.co.za/news/world/child-smuggling-is-good-business-official-1.113611 [accessed 30 January 2011] Ana Isabel García, Manuel Barahona, Carlos Castro & Enrique Gomáriz,
GENPROM Working Paper No. 2, Series on Women and Migration, Gender Promotion Programme, International Labour Office www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/documents/publication/wcms_117928.pdf [accessed 30 January 2011] [page 3]
FOREWORD -
Changing labour markets with globalization have increased both opportunities
and pressures for women to migrate. The migration process and employment in a
country of which they are not nationals can enhance women’s earning
opportunities, autonomy and empowerment, and thereby change gender roles and
responsibilities and contribute to gender equality. But they also expose
women to serious violation of their human rights. Whether in the recruitment
stage, the journey or living and working in another country, women migrant
workers, especially those in irregular situations, are vulnerable to
harassment, intimidation or threats to themselves and their families,
economic and sexual exploitation, racial discriminatio
n and xenophobia, poor working conditions, increased health risks and other
forms of abuse, including trafficking into forced labour, debt bondage,
involuntary servitude and situations of captivity. All material used herein
reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107 for noncommercial,
nonprofit, and educational use. PLEASE
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