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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2011 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Egypt.htm
Egypt is a source, transit, and
destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of
forced labor and sexual exploitation. Some of Egypt’s estimated one million
street children – both boys and girls – are exploited in prostitution and
forced begging. Local gangs are, at times, involved in this exploitation.
Egyptian children are recruited for domestic and agricultural labor; some of
these children face conditions indicative of involuntary servitude, such as
restrictions on movement, non-payment of wages, threats, and physical or
sexual abuse. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Human Rights Watch Reports, www.hrw.org/reports/2001/egypt/Egypt01.htm#P46_655 [accessed 3 February 2011] SUMMARY - Each year over one million
children between the ages of seven and twelve are hired by Organ trafficking on the rise in Sarah Sheffer, Bikya Masr (Egyptian: resellable clutter), bikyamasr.com/50684/organ-trafficking-on-the-rise-in-egypt-says-new-report/ [accessed 12 December 2011] A shocking new report by the
Coalition for Organ Failure Solutions (COFS) COFS estimates that there are
thousands of victims of organ trafficking in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/egypt.htm [accessed 3 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Reports indicate a widespread practice of poor rural families
making arrangements to send daughters to cities to work as domestic servants
in the homes of wealthy citizens. Human
Rights Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61687.htm [accessed 3 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – There were anecdotal and press reports of trafficking of persons
from sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe through the country to Europe and Organ trafficking on the rise in Sarah Sheffer, Bikya Masr (Egyptian: resellable clutter), bikyamasr.com/50684/organ-trafficking-on-the-rise-in-egypt-says-new-report/ [accessed 12 December 2011] A shocking new report by the
Coalition for Organ Failure Solutions (COFS) COFS estimates that there are
thousands of victims of organ trafficking in Child maids now being exported to US Associated Press AP, December 28, 2008 www.zimbio.com/AP+News/articles/7537/Child+maids+now+being+exported [accessed 3 February 2011] Shyima was 10 when a wealthy Egyptian
couple brought her from a poor village in northern Once behind the walls of gated
communities like this one, these children never go to school. Unbeknownst to
their neighbors, they live as modern-day slaves, just like Shyima, whose story is pieced together through court
records, police transcripts and interviews. Shyima cried when she found out she was
going to America in 2000. Her father, a bricklayer, had fallen ill a few
years earlier, so her mother found a maid recruiter, signed a contract
effectively leasing her daughter to the couple for 10 years and told Shyima to be strong. She arrived at Los Angeles
International Airport on Aug. 3, 2000, according to court documents. The
family brought her back to their spacious five-bedroom, two-story home,
decorated in the style of a Tuscan villa with a fountain of two angels
spouting water through a conch. She was told to sleep in the garage. It had no windows and was neither heated
nor air-conditioned. Soon after she arrived, the garage's only light bulb
went out. The Ibrahims didn't replace it. From then
on, Shyima lived in the dark. She was told to call them Madame Amal and Hajj Nasser, terms of respect. They called her
"shaghala," or servant. Their five
children called her "stupid." Human trafficking: the case of Egypt Ahmed Maged, Daily News www.ecpat.net/EI/Resource_newsclippings.asp?id=600 [accessed 3 February 2011] THE
SITUATION IN Picking on cotton Gamal Nkrumah, Al-Ahram
Weekly, Issue No. 905, 10 - 16 July
2008 weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/905/feature.htm [accessed 3 February 2011] Not only do landless peasants earn
a pittance working the land, but they are subjected to abuse,
and no group more so than the children, the most vulnerable members of
society. Foremen in the fields subject the children to violent beatings. Gangmasters recruit the children, invariably the
offspring of landless peasants and impoverished peasant families. The parents
of the child labourers are desperately poor and are
often all too relieved to part with their children. In the final analysis,
farming out one's children as indentured labourers
mean fewer mouths to feed. In The www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=97097 [accessed 3 February 2011] Each day, 14-year-old Ali Abdel-Nasser works at a brick factory on the outskirts of
Several of the child workers in
the area, interviewed by an Associated Press reporter on a recent trip, said
they had sometimes been beaten with wooden switches by foremen at the
factories, if the foremen thought the children were going too slowly in their
work. No foremen would agree to be
interviewed. But human rights groups and outside experts say conditions for
working children can vary greatly across Egypt — from factories that provide
meals and some basic schooling, to those that work children long hours, often
in scorching heat, and abuse or beat them. Organ trafficking: a fast-expanding black market IHS Jane's, 05 March 2008 www.janes.com/news/publicsafety/jid/jid080305_1_n.shtml [accessed 3 February 2011] NGOs warn against plan to increase Russian visas Ruth Eglash, The www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380635370&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] However, Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7601 [accessed 3 February 2011] Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/egypt [accessed 3 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DT46 .E32 1991 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/egtoc.html [accessed 3 February 2011] Egyptian Journalists Trained to Report on Child Labor
Issues Internews Arabic Network, April 14, 2004 www.internews.org/news/2004/20040414_egypt.html At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] Internews Arabic Network held a training
session in Liberian court tries Egyptian woman for child trafficking www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=262519 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
The Criminal Court in Underage And Unprotected: Child Labor In Human Rights Watch Reports, www.hrw.org/reports/2001/egypt/Egypt01.htm#P46_655 [accessed 3 February 2011] SUMMARY - Each year over one million
children between the ages of seven and twelve are hired by Little Hands Do Neat Work Joanne McEwan, Islam Online,
11/06/2001 www.islamonline.net/english/Society/2001/06/article6.shtml At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] It is estimated that around 1.2
million children swarm the Egyptian cotton fields in early summer (Schemm, p.8). Most of them are below 12 years of age and
work up to 11 hours each day, thus impeaching Egypt's laws that state that a
child of 12 (the minimum working age) can only participate in a six hour work
day of seasonal agricultural work. Children not only toil under the hot sun,
but are beaten by the foreman and forced to work in fields that have been
sprayed with pesticides only pesticides only 24 - 48 hours earlier. Yet these
children play an important role in the labor intensive cotton fields…being
ideal in height and plentiful in number. Child Labor Douglas Jehl, "King Cotton
Exacts Tragic Toll From www.migrationint.com.au/ruralnews/budapest/oct_1997-17rmn.asp [accessed 3 February 2011] In Egypt, education is supposed to
be compulsory to the age of 15, but thousands of children as young as age six
pick cotton by hand in September for about $1.50 for an eight-hour day. In
September 1997, 31 children were killed when the flatbed government truck
taking them to a government-owned cotton field overturned. Egyptian law
prohibits employment under 12 in agriculture, and under 14 in nonfarm jobs. However, these age limits are routinely
violated, including by the Agriculture Ministry, which owns 10 percent of the
cotton fields in Egypt. The Egyptian
Center for Social Research estimates that 1.5 million children in Child Labour Persists Around The World: More Than 13
Percent Of Children 10-14 Are Employed International Labour Organisation (ILO) News, www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/news/WCMS_008058/lang--en/index.htm [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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