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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Nicaragua.htm
Nicaragua is principally a source and transit country for women
and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation
and forced labor. Women and children are trafficked within the country and to
neighboring countries, most often to El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala,
Honduras, Mexico, and the United States, for commercial sexual exploitation.
The most prevalent form of internal trafficking is the exploitation of
children, both boys and girls, in prostitution. NGOs identify Managua,
Granada, Esteli, and San Juan del Sur as destinations for foreign child sex tourists. NGOs
report instances of forced child marriages between young girls and older
foreign men, particularly in San Juan del Sur. Children are trafficked within the country for
forced labor in construction, agriculture, the fishing industry, and for
domestic servitude. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June,
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child Gold Miners in Ivan Castro, Reuters, La Source of photographs is "The Legacy of Greenstone
Resources in www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=1082 [accessed 11 March 2011] In a dim and dangerous tunnel lit
only by the flicker of candles, Juan Laguna and four other children toil with
rusty pick-axes to loosen chunks of rock they hope will yield at least a
little bit of gold. Laguna then
undertakes the arduous process of milling and washing the ore. If it is a
good day, it will give him enough gold to sell for about $3 (1.60 pounds).
But he is not always lucky. "Not
every day goes well," says Laguna, who is 12 but has the slight build of
a child half his age. Working with
hundreds of other youngsters, Laguna has spent five years scratching the
walls of tunnels in the La India mining district, more than 100 miles (160
km) west of PHOTOS: Child gold miners in AlertNet, Reuters foundation, 09 Dec 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9 September 2011] Featured here are images by Reuters photographer Oswaldo
Rivas of child gold miners working in Nicaraguan mines. While more than
300,000 children between five and 17 work at underpaid jobs instead of going
to school, the Nicaraguan government is working to pass a law to eradicate
the ten most dangerous jobs that exploit children. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/nicaragua.htm [accessed 12 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Some children are forced by their parents to beg, and some are
“rented” out by their parents to organized groups of beggars. 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/2005/61734.htm [accessed 12 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS –
Government officials, NGOs, and other organizations characterized trafficking
as a growing problem throughout the region. The government, NGOs, and media
periodically reported cases of individual women trafficked to brothels in Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 June 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/nicaragua2005.html [accessed 12 December 2010] [62] The Committee further notes
that the domestic legislation does not seem to contain provisions punishing
sale and trafficking of children for the purpose of economic exploitation. The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/nicaragua.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE
TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - Throughout the Central American region, “machismo” attitudes are
prevalent, and women are often viewed as sexual objects. Interfamily
violence, the breakdown of families, and poverty push young people to leave
their homes and communities to search for better lives. The pull factor of
the United States also causes many young people to migrate northward. To a
lesser extent, pull factors entice young people toward more prosperous
neighboring countries, for example, from Nicaragua south to Costa Rica. At
border crossings, children are especially vulnerable to the whims of corrupt
immigration officials or traffickers who help them cross the border. FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Young women leave Nicaragua for
neighboring countries or other places for promised jobs in hotels or
factories or as domestics. One report
recounts the story of a girl who was kidnapped at the age of 12 as she was
walking to school in Managua in 1998. She had set out for school alone, as
she did every morning. A taxi stopped her to ask directions. She remembers
nothing more after that. She woke up in an unfamiliar place among other young
girls, guarded by three women. Less than a week later, she was sold to some
men, who sold her to others, who brought her to the United States to work in
a brothel. For the next 6 years, until she was 18, she was “dragged from
place to place and passed from hand to hand.” At the age of 18, she managed
to go to the authorities, who deported her. She is now back in Nicaragua
after “losing the best years of [her] life and [her] adolescence.” Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7673 [accessed 12 December 2010] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/americas/nicaragua [accessed 12 December 2010] Library of Congress Call Number F1523 .N569 1994 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/nitoc.html [accessed 12 December 2010] Child Gold Miners in Ivan Castro, Reuters, La Source of photographs is "The Legacy of Greenstone
Resources in www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=1082 [accessed 11 March 2011] In a dim and dangerous tunnel lit
only by the flicker of candles, Juan Laguna and four other children toil with
rusty pick-axes to loosen chunks of rock they hope will yield at least a
little bit of gold. Laguna then
undertakes the arduous process of milling and washing the ore. If it is a good
day, it will give him enough gold to sell for about $3 (1.60 pounds). But he
is not always lucky. "Not every
day goes well," says Laguna, who is 12 but has the slight build of a
child half his age. Working with
hundreds of other youngsters, Laguna has spent five years scratching the
walls of tunnels in the La India mining district, more than 100 miles (160
km) west of PHOTOS: Child gold miners in AlertNet, Reuters foundation, 09 Dec 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9 September 2011] Featured here are images by Reuters photographer Oswaldo
Rivas of child gold miners working in Nicaraguan mines. While more than
300,000 children between five and 17 work at underpaid jobs instead of going
to school, the Nicaraguan government is working to pass a law to eradicate the
ten most dangerous jobs that exploit children. Trafficking in Children in Latin America and the Casa Alianza, Covenant House – www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/casa_alianza__trafficking_i.pdf [accessed 11 March 2011] [page 4] FINAL DESTINATIONS - Child Labour News Service, March 15 2002 – Source: La Prensa www.hrea.org/lists/child-rights/markup/msg00022.html [accessed 11 March 2011] [scroll down] CENTRAL AMERICA BASTION OF CHILD SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION - According to the report, Nicaragua
is the "principal supplier of sexual victims for the whole
region." Harris said, "Many
Nicaraguans, adults, adolescents and even minors, end up in centres in Honduras, El Salvador, and principally Guatemala,
and in the south their destination is Costa Rica, where there is the most
intense sexual tourism." Advancing the Campaign Against Child
Labor: Efforts at the Country Level – www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/iclp/Advancing1/html/nicaragua.htm [accessed 11 March 2011] CHILD LABOR IN House Armed Services Committee Member Criticizes US Army
& Air Force Relationship with Burmese Sweatshop The National Labor Committee, December 19, 2000 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
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