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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Kenya.htm
Kenya is a source, transit, and
destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes
of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Kenyan children are trafficked
within the country for domestic servitude, forced labor in agriculture
(including on flower plantations), cattle herding, in bars, and for
commercial sexual exploitation, including involvement in the coastal sex
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** A generation betrayed [access information unavailable] Nation Newspapers carries a story
today where the German ambassador to The ambassador states that the
practice of child trafficking and prostitution is rampant due to private
villas where these activities are carried out. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/kenya.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61575.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Victims
were trafficked from South and East Asian countries and 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/kenya2001.html [accessed 16 February 2011] [59] The Committee notes with
appreciation that the State party has signed a memorandum of understanding
with ILO and that various ILO/International Program on the
Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC) programs to prevent and combat child labor
are being carried out. The Committee also welcomes the establishment of a
National Steering Committee on child labor. Nevertheless, and in the light of
the current economic situation, the increasing number of school drop-outs and
the increasing number of street children, the Committee is concerned about
the large number of children engaged in labor and the lack of information and
adequate data on the situation of child labor and economic exploitation in
the State party. The Committee notes also with concern that notwithstanding
various legal provisions there is no firm minimum age for admission to
employment and that child labor is still prevalent in the State party. International Organization for Migration IOM, 17 August
2007 allafrica.com/stories/200708170834.html [partially accessed 7 September 2011 - access restricted] In addition, internal trafficking
of Kenyans is considered to be widespread, particularly from rural to urban
areas such as Passport forgery to blame for trafficking Susan Anyangu, East African
Standard Page: 11 on Sat 12th May 2007, under Governance www.marsgroupkenya.org/multimedia/?StoryID=175432&page=2 [accessed 28 November 2010] Immigration Officer Mr Alfred Omangi said human
trafficking was on the increase and that the cartels were too advanced for
law enforcers. It has emerged that the
Immigration Department is not adequately equipped to detect forgeries. This,
plus the porous nature of Kenyan borders, is fuelling human trafficking. New study shames human traffickers Patrick Mathangani, The
Standard, May 11, 2007 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 7 September 2011] A new report by an international
trade unions’ umbrella organisation says International Confederation of
Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) says Kenyans were also trafficked to Its report, ‘Trafficking in
Persons — The Eastern Africa Situation’, notes that women and children were favourite targets for well-organised
trafficking rings, which operate freely for lack of solid laws against the
vice. Dr George Gona,
an expert on trade unions at the Trafficking victim tells her story Patrick Mayoyo, Daily Nation ( www.afrika.no/Detailed/13575.html [accessed 16 February 2011] Lucy Kabanya,
39, was in high spirits at the A generation betrayed [access information unavailable] Nation Newspapers carries a story
today where the German ambassador to The ambassador states that the
practice of child trafficking and prostitution is rampant due to private
villas where these activities are carried out. Ngumbao Kithi,
The Nation ( At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 7 September 2011] "The whole network starts
when girls leave home to come to the Coast in the guise of looking for a job,
they join prostitution - the dream of each woman is to get a white man and be
taken abroad," said Ms Akinyi. She said her organisation
was involved in rehabilitation and resettlement of women who have been
married abroad and turned into slaves. State drafting laws to curb human trafficking 18 August 2006 -- Source: www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143956960 [accessed 16 February 2011] Lack of proper laws and policies
is hampering the fight against child trafficking, Vice-President, Mr Moody Awori has said. Consequently, Awori
on Thursday said the Attorney General was drafting laws to curb trafficking
of persons. He said poverty, lack of education and high number of HIV/Aids
orphans exposed many people to human trafficking. Child Trafficking in the Ambrose Musiyiwa (amusiyiwa), OhmyNews,
2006-07-25 english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=5&no=293231&rel_no=6 [accessed 17 February 2011] She was a teenage orphan living on
the streets of True to his word, her
"savior" brought her into the Three months later, when the
16-year-old Kenyan girl became pregnant, she was forced to continue sleeping
with a succession of men until she was almost due to give birth. The heavily
pregnant teenager was then removed from the brothel, driven out of the town
where she had been held, and dumped many miles away on the streets of The sequence of events that has
emerged during those interviews is both shocking and tragic. It involves
imprisonment, beatings, and systematic rape over a lengthy period. Migration body to monitor human trafficking impact [access information unavailable] "Many girls are taken from Iringa and brought to major cities to work as housegirls but they end up being subjected to
prostitution and other works which they did not expect, this is internal
trafficking," she said. Many young boys, she said, are
taken to work in the mining companies, something which not only denies their
rights but also are psychosocially affected. Law needed to fight human trafficking, says Tobiko 30 April 2006 -- Source: www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143951784 [accessed 17 February 2011] The Government is under pressure
to come up with a comprehensive national policy and legislation to counter
human trafficking in the country. The Director of Public
Prosecutions, Keriako Tobiko,
said yesterday that the lack of a counter trafficking legislation posed a big
problem towards the prosecution of offenders. AIDS Now Compels Sharon LaFraniere, The New York
Times, May 11, 2005 www.aegis.com/news/nyt/2005/NYT050507.html [accessed 17 February 2011] In The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/kenya.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Young Kenyan women and children
are commonly lured with false promises of employment abroad, but they end up
in the sex industry instead. Parents
often pay significant sums to send their children to the The most common forms of
trafficking in children from and within Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7636 [accessed 17 February 2011] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 17 February 2011] Knight Fellow accused of human trafficking Joaquín Hernández,
The Stanford Daily, February 26, 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 7 September 2011] “ ‘Deya Babies’ Are Victims of
Trafficking Mwangi Githahu,
The Nation, www.religionnewsblog.com/8585/deya-babies-are-victims-of-trafficking [accessed 17 February 2011] Archbishop Deya,
whose wife is being questioned, continues to maintain that he can and did
create “miracle babies” for childless couples by exorcising demons to make
them fertile, some charities have come out and said in no uncertain terms
that his actions are, in fact, a front for trafficking babies from Document - 2004 UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Violence against Women: universal but not inevitable! Amnesty
International, 2004 [accessed 17 February 2011] VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE FAMILY - In some countries, personal status
laws may condone violence against women. Some obedience and modesty laws
require a wife’s submission to her husband and give the husband an explicit
or implicit right to discipline his wife, and in some countries women are
considered to be the property of their fathers or husbands. In parts of US names Kevin J Kelley, Daily Nation, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 7 September 2011] "Some trafficking offences
could be prosecuted under laws addressing child labour, forced detention for
prostitution and the commercial exploitation of children, but no
trafficking-related offences have been prosecuted", the report says in
its assessment of But in seeming contradiction to
these criticisms, the State Department says elsewhere in the same assessment
that Kenyan officials are increasingly engaged with the The vicious circle of sexual exploitation Zachary Ochieng, News from www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_854.html [accessed 17 February 2011] A unique feature of child
prostitution in Child marriages have also been
noted as a form of sexual exploitation. They are common among the pastoral
communities in districts including Kajiado, Transmara, Moyale, Wajir, and Mandera. According
to the report, some parents are known to marry off their young girls to older
men in order to pay the school fees of their male siblings. - htcp Part 1: Some foreign household workers enslaved Stephanie Armour, www.usatoday.com/money/general/2001/11/19/cover.htm [accessed 17 February 2011] MEDIAN HOURLY WAGE: $2.14 - But according to a June study
on domestic workers by Human Rights Watch, problems persist. A review of more
than 40 cases found immigrants on special visas received a median hourly wage
of $2.14, which is 42% of the $5.15 federal minimum wage. The median workday
was 14 hours. AMONG RECENT CASES - • Alice Benjo
and Mary Chumo, both from Kenya, were "kept as
virtual slaves" at the home of their employer, an employee at the Kenyan
Embassy in Washington, according to legal documents. They worked for
Elizabeth Belsoi, a citizen of 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 7 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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