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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Mongolia.htm
Mongolia is a source country for men, women, and children trafficked
for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. Mongolian women and
girls are trafficked to China, Macau, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and South Korea
for both forced labor and sexual exploitation. Mongolian men and women are
trafficked to Kazakhstan and Turkey for labor exploitation. There is also
concern about involuntary child labor in the Mongolian construction, mining,
and industrial sectors, where they are vulnerable to injury and face severe
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** U.S. Customs Commissioner Issues Detention Order on
Clothing Produced in www.cbp.gov/hot-new/pressrel/2000/1128-00.htm [accessed 17 April 2012] Evidence obtained by Customs
investigators suggests that factory managers are forcing employees, some of
whom are minors, to work 14-hour days, 7 days a week. In addition, it has
been reported that factory management is deducting unreasonable amounts of
money from the workers' salaries without paying overtime. It has also been
reported that minor age children are being treated as adult age workers,
which is a violation of Mongolian law. In addition, working conditions at
both factories are said to be poor and employee housing is substandard. Study: B.Bulgamaa, The UB Post, January 22, 2009 ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2578&Itemid=36 [accessed 21 February 2011] GEC also interviewed 16 victims of
trafficking who returned to NGOs have also reported on the
increasing scope of domestic trafficking and organized criminal networks in
Mongolia that kidnap girls from the streets or lure them through their peers,
relatives or acquaintances, keep them locked in hotels and force them into
prostitution. In February, 2008, during the Mongolian New Year, half a dozen
girls were reported to have been kidnapped from the streets and forced into
prostitution in Ulaanbaatar and Darkhan city. One
of the cases involving a 17-year old girl, a daughter of a poor single mother
of three, caught significant media and public attention. Victims and NGOs
also reported that girls are often trafficked abroad after having been
‘tamed’ and sexually exploited in Mongolia. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/mongolia.htm [accessed 21 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - While comprehensive information about the nature and extent of
trafficking in Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/62653.htm [accessed 21 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The
primary targets of trafficking schemes were middle-class girls and young
women, ranging from 14 to approximately 28 years of age, who were lured
abroad by offers to study or work. Preventive steps to combat trafficking,
such as increased law enforcement measures, remained limited. As a result, it
was not difficult to traffic persons across the country's borders. Some NGO
experts believed that members of the police sometimes were involved in
trafficking young women and helping facilitate their movement across borders.
Protections for victims and
witnesses were extremely limited, which discouraged them from coming forward.
Furthermore, social stigma inhibited victims from telling their stories. The
government had limited resources and divergent priorities, and therefore
provided no direct assistance for trafficking victims. NGOs offered support
when possible, and the government relied on NGOs to increase awareness and
initiate prevention programs. The government worked with the UN on a
three-year project for capacity building in the National Council on Gender
Equality, which included giving more attention to trafficking and
prostitution. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 June 2005 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/6665ba6cee999821c12570350028974c?OpenDocument [accessed 21 February 2011] [64] The Committee is deeply
concerned at the increasing number of children engaged in prostitution. While
noting that trafficking in children is a relatively new human rights problem
in Mongolia, the Committee is concerned about certain risk factors, including
persisting poverty, the high rate of unemployment, difficult family
circumstances leading to run-away from home and a growth in tourism, which
may and often does increase sexual exploitation and trafficking in children. Study: B.Bulgamaa, The UB Post, January 22, 2009 ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2578&Itemid=36 [accessed 21 February 2011] GEC also interviewed 16 victims of
trafficking who returned to NGOs have also reported on the
increasing scope of domestic trafficking and organized criminal networks in
Mongolia that kidnap girls from the streets or lure them through their peers,
relatives or acquaintances, keep them locked in hotels and force them into
prostitution. In February, 2008, during the Mongolian New Year, half a dozen
girls were reported to have been kidnapped from the streets and forced into
prostitution in Ulaanbaatar and Darkhan city. One
of the cases involving a 17-year old girl, a daughter of a poor single mother
of three, caught significant media and public attention. Victims and NGOs
also reported that girls are often trafficked abroad after having been ‘tamed’
and sexually exploited in Mongolia. Campaign To Be Arranged Against Human Trafficking www.montsame.mn/index.php?option=com_news&task=news_detail&tab=200804&ne=526 [access date unavailable] Thanks to a help by Gender Equality
center, 51 victims of human trafficking were brought back to Informal Marriages Hide Human Trafficking B.Bulgamaa, The UB Post, 2007-04-13 www.ginsc.net/main.php?option=view_article&mode=0&article=3638&lang=en [accessed 21 February 2011] The protection of rights and a
positive legal environment for the victims of human trafficking who become
illegally married to Asian men still does not exist yet, because of a lack of
information and knowledge about human trafficking. About 20 days ago, four
Mongolian women with three of their children requested from the Mongolian
consulate in Erlian, China, to save them from the
violence of their husbands. They were married to Chinese men
when they were introduced to each other in Mongolia, but have lived in China
for over ten years now. According to reports in the Mongolian media, all of
them were living in a half-starved state, they had no right to work for wages
and weren’t even allowed to go outside. They were beaten brutally by their
husbands and had other physical pressure applied. Some of them were
unwillingly forced to have sex by their husbands. But the accused husbands
are demanding the return of their wives from the consulate. Street Children Remain Neglected Damien Dawson, 06 April 2007 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 September 2011] In a week when the western world
celebrates the anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave
trade, abducted women and children are being transported across the Chinese
border in a modern-day slave trade.
The western world is dimly but increasingly aware of this, but it
remains firmly at the back of the minds of those that possess the power to
deal with the plight of those who are part of Mongolia’s future. Freedom House Country Rating - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 2 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7665 [accessed 21 February 2011] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, July 12, 2004 [accessed 21 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DS798 .W67 1990 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/mntoc.html [accessed 21 February 2011] The Crime of Trafficking of Women and Children in National Human Rights Commission of www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/nhrcm_2002_mongolia_trafficking_report_3.pdf [accessed 21 February 2011] 2. THE CRIME OF TRAFFICKING AND
SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN Jurist Legal Intelligence - Jurist: The Legal Education Network™, Source: jurist.law.pitt.edu/world/mongolia.htm#Human [accessed 21 February 2011] HUMAN RIGHTS - The Mongolian Government
generally respected the human rights of its citizens in 2001; however,
problems remain in some areas. Child abuse and child labor also are
problems. There were some instances of forced labor, and some women seeking
work overseas may have become victims of trafficking schemes. U.S. Customs Commissioner Issues Detention Order on
Clothing Produced in www.cbp.gov/hot-new/pressrel/2000/1128-00.htm [accessed 17 April 2012] Evidence obtained by Customs
investigators suggests that factory managers are forcing employees, some of
whom are minors, to work 14-hour days, 7 days a week. In addition, it has
been reported that factory management is deducting unreasonable amounts of
money from the workers' salaries without paying overtime. It has also been
reported that minor age children are being treated as adult age workers,
which is a violation of Mongolian law. In addition, working conditions at
both factories are said to be poor and employee housing is substandard. All material used herein
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