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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Lithuania.htm
Lithuania is a source, transit, and destination country for
women and children trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual
exploitation. One estimate concluded that approximately 20 percent of
Lithuanian trafficking victims are underage girls. Lithuanian women are
trafficked within the country and to the United Kingdom, Germany, the
Netherlands, Greece, Italy, France, and the Czech Republic for the purpose of
forced prostitution. Women from Belarus are trafficked to Lithuania for the
same purpose. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Trafficked to the West Jill McGivering, BBC News, Lithuania, 9 July 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4663841.stm [accessed 18 February 2011] Last summer, she had been
approached by a childhood friend, she told me. He said he knew someone who was recruiting
women to work as prostitutes in Within weeks she arrived in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/lithuania.htm [accessed 18 February 2011] GOVERNMENT
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - In January 2002, the government approved a Program on
the Control and Prevention of Trafficking in Humans and Prostitution for
2002-2004. The program concentrated on
the causes of prostitution and trafficking; preventive measures; and on
providing social, psychological, and legal support to victims of prostitution
and trafficking. With funding and
assistance from the World Bank, the government is implementing a National
Poverty Reduction Strategy in order to assist vulnerable populations,
including at risk children. In
partnership with government agencies, IOM launched a counter-trafficking
project aimed at establishing a coordinated system of assistance for
trafficking victims from the INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Organized crime figures are reported to use coercive means to traffic
Lithuanian girls into prostitution abroad, particularly to Western European
countries. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61660.htm [accessed 18 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS –
Traffickers targeted the socially most vulnerable groups: young females from
poor or unstable families. Traffickers also commonly targeted young women
from ethnic minorities. Many were lured by deceptive offers of jobs such as
household helpers, bar dancers, nannies, nurses, models, or waitresses, or
through false marriage advertisements. In many cases close relatives or
friends made the offers. Victims' compliance was ensured via threats and the
withholding of their documents. Families often were unaware of their
predicament and believed that they had been kidnapped. Boarding schools that
also serve as orphanages were new targets of traffickers. Police reported that nearly half
of traffickers were linked to organized crime, including international groups Concluding Observations of the
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 26 January 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/lithuania2001.html [accessed 18 February 2011] [53] The Committee, while noting
the National Program against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sexual
Abuse of Children of 2000, expresses its deep concern at the lack of data,
consistent policies, rehabilitation and reintegration programs, and the
reports of disappearances of minors, in particular girls, allegedly for
trafficking purposes. A barbaric trade in human misery right on our doorsteps Chris Bond, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/A-barbaric-trade-in-human.3490580.jp [accessed 18 February 2011] "One of the first victims we
helped in the "She was phoned up by someone
and asked if she would like to sell ice cream for the summer in London and
was told she would earn about £300."
The traffickers signed a consent form and her parents, believing it
was a good opportunity, approved the trip.
"She was flown to Gatwick and sold in a coffee shop from one
trafficker to another for £3,000, her passport was taken off her and sold for
£4,000. "Later the same night,
she was taken to a flat and brutalised and raped,
and from that moment on she was forced to act as a prostitute." CESCR Concluding Observations: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights CESCR,
14-05-2004 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/dc6f7a5b9f384505c1256e98004990ac?OpenDocument [accessed 18 February 2011] [19] The Committee notes with
concern that trafficking in women and children continues to be a problem in
the State party, which is a country of origin and transit, in spite of the
existence of the "Program on control and prevention of prostitution and commercial
trade in people for 2002-2004" and that the new Criminal Code provides
for criminal liability for a number of trafficking-related crimes, including
trade in people (art. 147), profiting from another person's prostitution
(art. 307), and procuring to prostitution (art. 308). Moreover, the Committee
regrets that the lack of information on the number of people trafficked does
not give an accurate picture of the extent of the problem. The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/lithuania.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS
THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE – After 1990, the three Sex traffic: Danielle was 15 when she was sold into slavery
in the Sophie Goodchild and Kurt Barling, The Independent Click [here]
to connect. The URL is not shown
because of its length [accessed 23 April 2012] Danielle was excited at the
prospect of leaving her home in Danielle suspected nothing until
the stranger took her passport once they passed through customs and left her
with two Albanians and a Lithuanian woman. It turned out that she had been
sold for £3,500. The "holiday job" was working in a brothel in
Birmingham. Sex trade gang 'beggared belief' BBC News, 18 October 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/4353344.stm [accessed 18 February 2011] Sentencing, Judge Barber said:
"Their behavior absolutely beggared belief, they
had taken two young Lithuanian girls and transported them to CPS continues fight against sex trade traffickers Crown Prosecution Service CPS, 16 September 2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8 September 2011] The latest Crown Prosecution
Service case against human traffickers ended today with the sentencing of Viktoras Larcenko, the last
member of a gang convicted for smuggling girls from Trafficked to the West Jill McGivering, BBC news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4663841.stm [accessed 18 February 2011] Last summer, she had been
approached by a childhood friend, she told me. He said he knew someone who was recruiting
women to work as prostitutes in Within weeks she arrived in The People Traffickers The [accessed 18 February 2011] "The model is often the same.
The ones who try to recruit women on the streets tend to be young men, in
their early twenties. Often they are good-looking. Crossing Borders: The Trafficking of Children into the End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking
of Children for Sexual Purposes ECPAT-UK www.hackney.gov.uk/Assets/Documents/child-trafficking-in-uk-crossing-borders-2005.pdf [accessed 2 December 2010] The story of Elena, a 15-year-old
East European girl lured to the I've run out of tears, says girl sold around Nigel Bunyan, Telegraph,
11/05/2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8 September 2011] That night she had been due to be
passed on to her eighth owner in three months. Eventually, it is thought, she
was likely to have been sold on to traffickers in Concern rises on failure to arrest war suspects Agence France-Presse
AFP, February 26, 2005 www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/world/europe/25iht-briefs.html [accessed 18 February 2011] VILNIUS, LITHUANIA: The number of young Lithuanian women sold for sex in Britain has increased from "single cases to dozens every month" since the country joined the European Union last year, the head of Lithuania's Interpol bureau said Friday. "Nightclub Girls Helped Me Escape Captivity" The Star, 23 February 2005 www.thestar.co.uk/news/39Nightclub-girls-helped-me-escape.953265.jp [accessed 18 February 2011] The youngster, from Freedom House Country
Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status:
Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7649 [accessed 18 February 2011] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, December 12, 2007 [accessed 18 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DK502.35 .E86 1996 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/lttoc.html [accessed 18 February 2011] Women's sex slave nightmare Rob Waugh, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Women39s-sex-slave-nightmare.909654.jp [accessed 18 February 2011] Two Albanian illegal immigrants
have become the first men in the Single, Europe-Wide Strategy against Human Trafficking UN Information Service UNIS, www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/pressrels/2004/hrct653.html [accessed 18 February 2011] Developing and coordinating a
single Europe-wide anti-trafficking strategy should be seriously considered,
he said in his detailed explanation of Call for residency for human trafficking victims At one time this article had been archived and may possibly
still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8 September 2011] Eight men are to appear this week
in Oslo City Court on charges of human trafficking. This is the first time a
case concerning prostitution-related human trafficking is to be tried by
Norway’s justice system. Two girls from Lithuania claim to have been brought
against their will to Norway in autumn 2001 and forced to work as prostitutes. The Queen's Speech in November 2003 saw the introduction
of The Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Bill ECPAT-UK Newsletter, March 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 September 2011] [scroll down to Other News] OTHER NEWS - In July last year, seven women
from The Reintegration Problems of Victims of Trafficking in
People in Secretary of the Social Security and Labor ministry Violeta Murauskaitë At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 September 2011] It is well known that women
victims often get physically and emotionally abused. If psychological aid is
provided in time, that means, a step into successful psycho-rehabilitation
process has been made. The motivation and self-awareness of victims are very
important, thus it is necessary to change the way of thinking of the victim.
During the rehabilitation process a change in a life style of children and
women as well as their emotional states are emphasized. It is important to
recreate social links with the corresponding social background and to prepare
victims for living on their own. Based on the Annual Report 2002 of the Lithuanian Human
Rights Association At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 September 2011] TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS - In 2002 Lithuanian society
still held the view that victims of trafficking who
were forced to work as prostitutes should be held accountable for their own
misfortune. The problem was often treated as a problem of illegal
immigration, and as a result of this, women were left without any rights in
the foreign country, and without protection. The trafficking of foreign women
to Lithuania to engage in prostitution was a problem for Lithuanian law
enforcement and this meant that attention which perhaps should have focused
on the women involved was instead directed at combating the criminal
activities of prostitutes and their managers. Recognition For Courageous Work Against Drugs And Crime UN Information Service UNIS, www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/pressrels/2002/nar769.html [accessed 18 February 2011] The Missing Persons Families
Support Centre in A Form of Slavery: Trafficking in Women in OSCE Member
States [PDF] International At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 September 2011] [page 40] The National programme against
the commercial Sexual Exploitation and sexual abuse of Children Approved by Resolution no. 29 of 11 January 2000 of the
Government of the At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8 September 2011] 12. The commercial sexual
exploitation of children is connected with organised
crime; in this instance we are talking about drawing children into
prostitution and pornographic business.
International collaboration by police officers really helps to stop
such criminal activity. Since 1991,
Lithuania is a full member of the International Criminal Police Organisation
(Interpol). The Lithuanian National
Bureau of Interpol, in which an officer responsible for the investigation of
problems of abuse against children has been appointed since 1998, represents
the Republic of Lithuania in this organisation. All material used herein
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