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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Guinea-Bissau.htm
Guinea-Bissau is a source country for children trafficked
to other West African countries and within the country for forced begging,
forced agricultural labor, and commercial sexual exploitation. The majority
of victims are boys who are religious students, called talibe, who are
trafficked by religious instructors called marabouts to other West African
countries, primarily Senegal, for forced begging. Deceived into believing that their children will receive a
religious education, parents often agree to send their child away with
marabouts. Instead, the instructors force the children to beg daily for up to
12 hours in urban centers and physically abuse them if they fail to collect a
certain quota of money. Bissau-Guinean boys are also trafficked to Senegal
for forced labor in cotton fields. NGOs report that Bissau-Guinean girls who
perform domestic work within the country and in Senegal may be victims of
trafficking, while girls reportedly are trafficked to Senegal for forced
domestic labor. Within Guinea-Bissau, girls are trafficked for commercial
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Guinea-Bissau-Senegal: On the child trafficking route UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, Bafata,
23 November 2007 www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75485 [accessed 8 February 2011] Children, brought from 100,000 CHILD BEGGARS - In 2004, the UN Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) estimated there were up to 100,000 child beggars in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/guinea-bissau.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - In order to prevent trafficking, the law requires that an individual
responsible for a child traveling overseas submit identification documents
(birth certificates) to relevant authorities.
According to the U.S. Department of State, formal sector employers
typically adhere to the minimum age requirements, but child labor occurred in
the informal sector without oversight or enforcement by the Ministry of
Justice or the Ministry of Civil Service and Labor. There is no
information available on the enforcement of laws pertaining to trafficking or
commercial sexual exploitation of children. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61574.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The law
does not prohibit trafficking in persons, and there were reports that
children were trafficked from or within the country. The government has not
prosecuted any cases against traffickers. The Ministry of Interior has
responsibility for anti-trafficking efforts; however, the government had no
national plan to combat trafficking or the capability to monitor, interdict,
or prosecute traffickers. Some boys sent from rural areas to
attend Koranic schools in Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7th June 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/guineabissau2002.html [accessed 8 February 2011] [32] The Committee is concerned
that: (c) the common use of "informal adoption" procedures can lead
to the violation of children's rights. Child victims of human trafficking rescued in Guinea
Bissau ASemana, 18 November 2007 www.asemana.publ.cv/spip.php?article27729 [accessed 8 February 2011] More than 50 children from Guinea
Bissau were rescued by police in the city of Guinea-Bissau-Senegal: On the child trafficking route UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, Bafata,
23 November 2007 www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75485 [accessed 8 February 2011] Children, brought from 100,000 CHILD BEGGARS - In 2004, the UN Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) estimated there were up to 100,000 child beggars in 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 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly also be accessible [here] [accessed 5 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/bissau.doc [Last accessed 2009] TRAFFICKING
ROUTES - Internal
trafficking exists in NONGOVERNMENTAL
AND INTL ORGANIZATION RESPONSES - UNICEF is implementing a 5-year program in UN alarmed at rise in drug trafficking Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=57983 [accessed 8 February 2011] The former Portuguese colony is
ranked 172 of 177 countries in the UN’s Human Development Index. The
cash-strapped government has no coastguard; police have no cars and the navy
no boats for patrolling national waters where scattered tiny islands make a
haven for smugglers. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7619 [accessed 8 February 2011] All material used herein
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