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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Macau.htm
Macau is primarily a destination for the trafficking of
women and girls from the Chinese mainland, Mongolia, Russia, Philippines, Thailand,
Vietnam, Burma, and Central Asia for the purpose of commercial sexual
exploitation. Most victims are from inland Chinese provinces who migrate to the border |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Human Trafficking Stretches Across the Region Moyiga Nduru, Benoni SA, Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, June 23,
2004 www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=24338 [accessed 19 February 2011] IOM official Jonathan Martens told
a three-day conference which opened in Benoni, near
South Africa's main commercial city of Johannesburg, this week (Jun. 22) that
the women are promised employment, luxury accommodation, and a payment of
between 10,000 and 20,000 dollars. Their passports are confiscated once they
arrive in Macau. Martens said South African traffickers
earn around 500 dollars for every woman recruited for prostitution in Macau,
which has been labeled the "Las Vegas of Asia" for its numerous
casinos and nightclubs. Drugs play a "very big role" in
recruitment, he added. A 23-year-old woman identified as
Nicola reported to the IOM that she had met nine other black, white and mixed
race South Africans aged 18 to 21 in Macau, who were forcibly prostituted in
the former colony. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human
Rights Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61605.htm [accessed 19 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – From
January to November, the SAR investigated 42 cases of procurement. While most
of these cases involved women who were believed to be willing participants in
the sex industry, 10 women claimed to have been brought to the SAR under
false pretenses and 3 complained of abuse. SAR authorities believed that
Chinese, Russian, and Thai criminal syndicates were involved in bringing
women to the SAR for the purposes of prostitution. Prostitutes were primarily
from mainland There were no government
assistance programs for victims of trafficking. No local NGOs specifically
dealt with the problem; however, there were charitable organizations that
provided assistance and shelter to women and children who were the victims of
abuse. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 30 September
2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/china2005.html [accessed 19 February 2011] [8] The Committee regrets the
limited statistical data on sexual exploitation and cross-border trafficking
included in the State party’s report, both with regard to mainland [14] The Committee is concerned at
the limited information provided about services to assist child victims with
regard to reintegration and recovery on the mainland. It is also concerned
about the absence of assistance programs specifically designed for child
victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation in the Macau SAR. [18]. The Committee notes with
appreciation the increased regional cooperation between the State party and
neighboring countries, such as Police crack 10 cases of human trafficking Alexandra Lages, www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/17363-Police-crack-cases-human-trafficking.html%20 [accessed 19 February 2011] Since the new law came into force
in February 2008, the police have found 30 cases of human trafficking, of
which 14 were in 2008, 6 in 2009 and 10 during this year. “The great majority of the cases
have sexual purposes behind, but there are also some cases of human organs
trade. Victims are usually women coming from mainland Human trafficking bill approved www.macaudailytimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7545&Itemid=28 [access date unavailable] Luciano Oliveira, assessor to the
secretary for administration and justice, Florinda da Rosa Silva Chan, said that the witness protection
scheme will be available to any victims of human trafficking who require
it. Each case is an independent case,
as “we are dealing with people,” he said, adding that the legal diploma and
witness protection scheme will not only apply to underaged
victims but to anyone. The government
will also create a committee to deal with issues on human trafficking, which
will be “activated in specific cases, when there are victims who need these
services, because not all victims require the same treatment,” Mr Oliveira added. Judges asked to clamp down on trafficking South African Press Association SAPA, October 19, 2007 www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/judges-asked-to-clamp-down-on-trafficking-1.375558 [accessed 19 February 2011] "Malawian women are sold by
Nigerian syndicates... to Malia Politzer,
The Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2007 online.wsj.com/article/SB118522321864075317.html?mod=googlenews_wsj [partially accessed 19 February 2011 -- access restricted] Despite -- or perhaps because of --
its swift development, Macau has become a major sex-trafficking destination
for victims from the US presses Robin Kwong in www.ft.com/cms/s/0/59af099e-27e5-11dc-80da-000b5df10621.html [access restricted] “There has been minimal progress in the past
year,” Mr Lagon
said. Attitudes in Macao, however, may
be changing. Mr Lagon
said Mr Ho admitted the territory had not done
enough and “expressed a will to address [the problem] within months”. “It was a marked change in rhetoric,” Mr Lagon said. Sister Juliana Devoy,
whose Good Shepherd Sisters have operated a crisis centre in Macao for 17
years, said it had only dealt with a few victims of sex trafficking. “The main problem is that we don’t know how
to contact the victims and the victims don’t know how to contact us,” she
said. “They are not free to just walk around on the streets.” Talent scout nabbed for human trafficking [PDF] Jing Villamentefrom,
The trafficking.org.ph/v5/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=1456 [accessed 19 February 2011] A gay fashion show manager sending
Filipino women to Lasala said Fajardo
brought them to nightclub where they had to work 20 hours a day providing sex
during their 23-day stay. The duped
recruits later learned that Fajardo had abandoned
them, taking all their earnings. Combating human trafficking in The Center for Human Rights and Development, www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/Mongolia-trafficking.pdf [accessed 19 February 2011] [Page 7]
Robert L. Worden, Federal Research Division, Library of
Congress, August 7, 2000 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/motoc.html [accessed 19 February 2011] Human Trafficking Stretches Across the Region Moyiga Nduru, Benoni SA, Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, June 23,
2004 www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=24338 [accessed 19 February 2011] IOM official Jonathan Martens told
a three-day conference which opened in Benoni, near
South Africa's main commercial city of Johannesburg, this week (Jun. 22) that
the women are promised employment, luxury accommodation, and a payment of
between 10,000 and 20,000 dollars. Their passports are confiscated once they
arrive in Macau. Martens said South African
traffickers earn around 500 dollars for every woman recruited for
prostitution in Macau, which has been labeled the "Las Vegas of
Asia" for its numerous casinos and nightclubs. Drugs play a "very
big role" in recruitment, he added. A 23-year-old woman identified as
Nicola reported to the IOM that she had met nine other black, white and mixed
race South Africans aged 18 to 21 in Macau, who were forcibly prostituted in
the former colony. The Crime of Trafficking of Women and Children in National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia & Centre
for Human Rights and Development, November 2002 www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/nhrcm_2002_mongolia_trafficking_report_3.pdf [accessed 19 February 2011] [page 17]
Various information sources report that Mongolian women are sold into Asian Migration News www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn990531.htm#korea [accessed 19 February 2011] Four Koreans (another source says
five), believed to constitute a criminal ring, were arrested by the police
for making 12 Korean women work as prostitutes in Macau last year and early this year. The syndicate has reportedly
collected five million won every month from Macau entertainment owners for
"managing" the women. Trafficking Vladmir Isachenkov,
"Soviet Women Slavery Flourishes," Associated Press AP, 6 November
1997 www.catwinternational.org/factbook/Macao.php [accessed 19 February 2011] Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee - UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
CCPR, Human Rights Committee, 5 May
1997 www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/1a4725eb945f1352c12569fc005189f3?Opendocument [accessed 19 February 2011] [13] The Committee is particularly
concerned at reports on the extent of trafficking in women in Macau and on
the large numbers of women from different countries who are being brought
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