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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Mali.htm
Mali is a source, transit, and destination
country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor
and, to a lesser extent, commercial sexual exploitation. In Mali, victims are
trafficked from rural areas to urban centers, agricultural zones, and artisanal mining sites. Victims are also trafficked
between Mali and other West African countries. Some notable destination
countries for Malian child victims are Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea,
Senegal, Mauritania, Niger, and Nigeria. Women and girls are trafficked primarily
for domestic servitude and, to a lesser extent, forced prostitution, while
boys are trafficked for forced begging and forced labor in gold mines and
agricultural settings both within Mali and to neighboring countries. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Chocolate and Slavery: Child Labor in Samlanchith Chanthavong,
Trade & Environment Database TED Case Studies Number 664, 2002 www1.american.edu/ted/chocolate-slave.htm [accessed 20 February 2011] SLAVERY AND THE LINK TO CHOCOLATE - Slave traders are trafficking
boys ranging from the age of 12 to 16 from their home countries and are
selling them to cocoa farmers in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/mali.htm [accessed 20 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The Government of Mali is one of nine countries
participating in the US DOL-funded ILO-IPEC project to combat the trafficking
of children for exploitive labor in West and Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61580.htm [accessed 20 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The
country was a source, transit, and destination for trafficking. Most of the
trafficking occurred within the country's borders during the year. Children
were trafficked to rice fields in the central regions; boys were trafficked
to mines in the south; and girls were trafficked for involuntary domestic
servitude in Concluding Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of
The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8 October 1999 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/mali1999.html [accessed 20 February 2011] [23] The Committee welcomes the
recent initiative undertaken by the State party in establishing the National
Commission to Study inter-country Adoption and Combat Trafficking in
Children. The Committee notes that the final report of the Commission, due in
October 1999, will include legislative and other recommendations to protect
the rights of children in situations of adoption and to prevent and combat
the phenomenon of trafficking in children. The Committee remains concerned,
however, at the absence of legislation, policies and institutions to regulate
inter-country adoptions. The lack of monitoring with respect to both domestic
and inter-country adoptions and the widespread practice of kalifa (informal adoptions) are also matters of concern. [36] While the Committee notes the
efforts of the State party, it remains concerned at the increasing incidence
of sale and trafficking of children, particularly girls, and the lack of
adequate legal and other measures to prevent and combat this phenomenon. Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/mali.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Child trafficking for forced
labor predominates in Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 3 Status:
Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7656 [accessed 20 February 2011] UN Wire, 2004-07-23 -- Source:
www.unwire.org/UNWire/20040723/449_26148.asp www.pambazuka.org/en/category/welfare/23415 [accessed 20 February 2011] UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=47772 [accessed 20 February 2011] The death of three girls in a road
accident last month led to investigations which revealed the existence of a
network the trafficks children into Attempts to prevent human trafficking are making
conditions worse for voluntary migrants The Medical News, 5 June 2004 -- Source:
http://press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/june/edd1369.pdf www.news-medical.net/news/2004/06/05/2190.aspx [accessed 20 February 2011] A survey of close to 1000 migrants
in Reuters, edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/16/mali.children.reut/ [accessed 8 September 2011] Malian authorities have rescued more
than 100 children and teenagers from suspected traffickers believed to be
taking them into forced labor in rice fields, officials in the West African
nation said Tuesday. Police stopped
112 minors aged between 10 and 18 as they traveled in buses over the weekend
in the Segou region, northeast of the capital Joan Baxter, BBC News, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2063526.stm [accessed 20 February 2011] The city of Chocolate and Slavery: Child Labor in Samlanchith Chanthavong,
Trade & Environment Database TED Case Studies Number 664, 2002 www1.american.edu/ted/chocolate-slave.htm [accessed 20 February 2011] SLAVERY AND THE LINK TO CHOCOLATE - Slave traders are trafficking
boys ranging from the age of 12 to 16 from their home countries and are
selling them to cocoa farmers in Immigration Laws: May, 2001 - Number #18 www.migrationint.com.au/news/american_samoa/may_2001-18mn.asp [accessed 20 February 2011] MALI AND SLAVERY - There are an estimated 15,000
Malian youth ages 15 to 18 who are enslaved in the Ivory Coast, lured by smugglers
who promise the youth and their parents high wages and training. Instead,
most do manual labor in cocoa plantations. A slave is defined by the ILO as
someone "forced to work under physical or mental threat, and where the
owner or employer controls the person completely - where a person is bought
or sold." Humphrey Hawksley in news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1272522.stm [accessed 20 February 2011] At a run-down police station in Sikasso, a small town in Child Slaves Caught in Glittering Traps Sikasso -- Source: Corinna Schuler, National Post (4/17/01)
www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010417/535594.html www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/childslaves.html#childslaves [accessed 20 February 2011] The next day, the Sylla brothers found themselves captive in a windowless
hut -- caught in the web of smugglers who coax unknown numbers of young
people out of impoverished Joan Baxter in news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/948135.stm [accessed 20 February 2011] They number about 15,000 and their
plight is enough to "make you weep", says Malian Minister of Woman
and Family Affairs They are child slaves from Mali, between the ages of six
and 16, and they work on plantations in neighbouring
Ivory Coast, where Ms Thiero says they are
regularly beaten, starved and locked in tiny dark huts to keep them from
fleeing. "One small boy brought
me to tears when he told of how he drank his own urine for three days because
the plantation owners had locked him up without food or water," Labour standards violated in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali AFROL News, 30 June 2004 [accessed 20 February 2011] Although 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 8 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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