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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early
years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Tajikistan.htm
Tajikistan is a source country for women
trafficked to the UAE often through Kyrgyzstan and Russia, for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation. Some women are trafficked from Tajikistan to
Russia, Turkey, Iran, and India for the purpose of commercial sexual
exploitation. Men are trafficked to Russia and, to a lesser extent,
Kazakhstan for the purpose of forced labor, primarily in the construction and
agricultural sectors. Children, men, and women are coerced by some local
government authorities to harvest cotton. In 2008, a small number of Tajik
men were trafficked to Poland for the purpose of forced labor. Boys and girls
are trafficked internally for various purposes, including forced labor,
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Woman jailed for forcing child into sex trade Independent Online (IOL) News, www.iol.co.za/news/world/woman-jailed-for-forcing-child-into-sex-trade-1.226224 [accessed 28 December 2010] Last week a non-governmental organisation said there was a growing trend in the
abduction and sale of Tajik boys for sexual exploitation abroad. The Modar organisation said groups in the United Arab Emirates,
Turkey, Pakistan and other countries were prepared to pay as much as
$70 000 for a Tajik boy between the ages of 10 and 12. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61679.htm [accessed 28 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The
majority of trafficking victims were female, single, and aged 20 to 26. Many were
new arrivals to Women and girls were trafficked
from the country primarily for cheap domestic labor or sex work. Male
trafficking victims were primarily used for labor abroad in agriculture, factories,
or construction; some were held as slaves without pay. Traffickers included former field
commanders--so-called warlords‑ who rose to positions of power and
wealth during the country's civil war. Others, including women, were powerful
local figures who used their wealth to cultivate patron-client relationships
throughout their community to create a trafficking network. Recruiters were
also often individuals familiar to victims, such as neighbors, acquaintances,
or relatives. Victims commonly were recruited
through false promises of employment. Advertisement of such work was
conducted through social contacts; traffickers used their local status and
prestige to help recruit victims. There also were cases of false wedding
proposals and, on occasion, kidnappings in rural areas. Traffickers generally
transported victims by air to the Middle East and by train to Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 October 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/tajikistan2000.html [accessed 28 December 2010] [32] The Committee is concerned
about the absence of national adoption standards, particularly in relation to
foster and adoptive family screening. The Committee is also concerned at the
absence of mechanisms to review, monitor and follow up adoptions, and of
statistics on foster care and adoption. [50] The Committee is concerned at
the increase in the prostitution and trafficking of children and women and
the absence of an effective, comprehensive and integrated approach to prevent
and combat these phenomena. The Committee is also concerned at the
insufficient data and awareness of the phenomena of commercial sexual
exploitation of children in Tajik Officials Step Up Fight Against Human Trafficking Radio Free Europe/Radio www.rferl.org/content/article/1078184.html [accessed 28 December 2010] The The Tajik General-Prosecutor's
Office says that 24 criminal cases on the trafficking of children have been
opened during the past seven months.
Some Tajik 80 women who had reportedly fallen victim to traffickers
have been brought back from foreign countries in the past four years. Human Trafficking Fuelled by Ignorance Institute for War & Peace Reporting, News Briefing
Central iwpr.net/report-news/human-trafficking-fuelled-ignorance [accessed 28 December 2010] Gulchehra Mirzoeva,
director of Modar, an NGO that works on human
trafficking, says most migrants do not have the knowledge that they need to
defend themselves abroad. Most of the million migrant workers who leave
Tajikistan every year do not know the language of the country they end up in
or its laws, she explains. That leaves
them wide open to exploitation, and the young are particularly at risk. Mirzoeva believes
that not enough is being done to raise awareness among young people of the
dangers of human trafficking. Criminal
gangs are well aware of this ignorance, and use it to “lure young people into
slavery”, said Firuz Saidov,
an independent expert on social affairs. REGNUM News Agency, 07/06/2007 www.regnum.ru/english/853542.html [accessed 28 December 2010] At one time this article had been archived and may possibly
also be accessible [here]
The source drew attention to the
fact that the ILO and UNDP initiative is aimed at encouraging effort of all
national partners in the migration sphere in order to increase protection of
Tajik workers abroad and establish decent working conditions in the home
country. According to the ILO, pilot projects will be conducted in the Rasht Valley (eastern Tajikistan), an economically underdeveloped
area with the highest migration rate in the country. According to the Tajik Labor and
Social Protection Ministry, about 600,000 Tajik workers are employed abroad. Human Trafficking Business Booming In Source: Pravda.Ru, 30 September
2005 english.pravda.ru/news/world/30-09-2005/67181-0/ [accessed 28 December 2010] Twenty-six women were returned to The Curse of Cotton: International Crisis Group, [accessed 28 December 2010] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS - The economics of Central Asian
cotton are simple and exploitative.
Millions of the rural poor work for little or no reward growing and
harvesting the crop. Forced and child labor
and other abuses are common.
Schoolchildren are still regularly required to spend up to two months
in the cotton fields in Stephen Lewis speaking on gender and HIV/AIDS [TEXT] Text of a speech by
Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, delivered at the At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] Domestic violence is another major
issue in the region, and can be so severe that young wives in Afghanistan,
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan see no way out other than suicide - usually though
the horrific method of self-immolation, which can result in terrible, if not
fatal, injuries. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7715 [accessed 28 December 2010] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/tajikistan [accessed 28 December 2010] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, August 26, 2008 [accessed 28 December 2010] Library of Congress Call Number DK851 .K34 1997 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/tjtoc.html [accessed 28 December 2010] Essential Background: Overview of human rights issues in Human Rights Watch World Report 2005, 12 January 2005 www.hrw.org/legacy/english/docs/2005/01/13/tajiki9897.htm [accessed 28 December 2010] HUMAN TRAFFICKING - Human trafficking is a
significant problem in Woman jailed for forcing child into sex trade Independent Online (IOL) News, www.iol.co.za/news/world/woman-jailed-for-forcing-child-into-sex-trade-1.226224 [accessed 28 December 2010] Last week a non-governmental organisation said there was a growing trend in the
abduction and sale of Tajik boys for sexual exploitation abroad. The Modar organisation said groups in the United Arab Emirates,
Turkey, Pakistan and other countries were prepared to pay as much as
$70 000 for a Tajik boy between the ages of 10 and 12. Antoine Blua with Sojida Djakhfarova of RFE/RL's Tajik Service, Radio Free Europe/Radio www.rferl.org/content/article/1052431.html [accessed 28 December 2010] Madina remembers vividly her ordeal at
the hands of a human trafficker. This Tajik single mother was desperate to
secure a better life for herself and her two children. Responding to an offer
from a man she didn't know, she left Tajikistan with the hope of a respectable
job and a good salary. "I was working in a local
market [in Tajikistan]. One day a man talked to me and asked about my life. I
told him that it was too hard, that I had a lot of problems, that I had two children
and not enough money to feed them," she says. "I [am] divorced from
my husband. Then he said: 'If you want you can come with me abroad. There are
a lot of jobs [there] and I can help you to find one.' I believed what he
said and I followed him." Trafficking in women is a problem for Tajikistan BBC Monitoring International Reports, 09 February 2002 www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-85316970/trafficking-women-problem-tajikistan.html [partially accessed 28 December 2010 - access restricted] "The trafficking in women and
girls from IOM Study Reveals Trends In Trafficking In Women From CNEWS, 27 November 2001 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] [scroll down to August 17, 2001] (International Organization for
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