Resources for Teachers – Anecdotes - Human Trafficking, including
modern day slavery, contemporary slavery, debt bondage, serfdom, forced labor,
forced marriage, transferring of wives,
inheritance of wives, and
transfer of a child for purposes of exploitation. Also forced prostitution, child prostitution,
sale of children, and trafficking in children.
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information that is unsubstantiated or even false. Their authenticity has not been verified
and their content has not been validated. Owed Justice -
Thai Women Trafficked into Debt Bondage in Japan IV. PROFILES - In this chapter, Human Rights
Watch profiles four women who were trafficked from Thailand into servitude in
Japan. Human Rights Watch interviewed numerous women who recounted similar
experiences. POT - It was a big room and four or five other women
going to work in Japan were also kept there. I was surprised to be locked up
because I was not allowed any chance to say goodbye to my family, even over
the phone. I heard the agents talking about the price for each woman being
between 150-160 bai [1.5-1.6 million yen; US$10,000-11,000], but I couldn't
really understand what they were talking about and did not realize that we
were being sold into prostitution. KAEW - Kaew explained that she had understood there
would be some debt for the airplane ticket and other expenses, but she had
never been told how high her debt would be, and she was shocked at the
amount. "The other girls said to me, 'that's a lot of debt and you're
old; you'll never pay it off.' Then I prayed that it would only take six or
seven months to pay it off, and I went with all of the clients I could. . . .
The mama said to me, 'don't let your period come, or you'll never finish
paying your debt.'" So Kaew also took contraceptive pills daily, though
she had been sterilized at age twenty-one, so that she would not menstruate
and could work every day.(7)
She got her mother to send the pills from Thailand, so that she would not
have to buy them from her mama and increase the level of her debt. Olga, like all the other women,
was immediately sold - she was bought by a local bar owner. This pimp
instructed her to dance on a stage, and then rented her out to punters at
night. If she resisted, he beat her. Like the vast majority of trafficked
women, she learnt to become compliant in order to survive. Vigilance
Needed in Fight Against Human Trafficking The maid revealed that despite
being promised a part-time job and a work visa, her employer paid far less
than minimum wage, did not offer breaks, held her travel documents, isolated
her from calling her family, and threatened to call the police and
immigration authorities. She spoke little English and had no idea who she
could call for help. A bed, a teddy bear, and a roll of
paper towels are the only contents of a closet-sized room where a trafficked
13-year-old girl was sold for sex by pimps to 20-30 men a day Scale of African
slavery revealed Complicity: Much of this trade in children
often has the tacit collaboration of the victims' own families where it is seen
not so much as criminal activity but as a way for a large family to boost its
poor income. The story of Joseph in
Benin is fairly typical Online
Focus - Slavery in America Transcript of a NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer Putting a Stop to
the Exploitation Concerned human rights activists
unite to end the scourge of sex slavery across all borders - by Tom Paquette Sexual
Slavery In Southern California Today? She was a teenage girl from an
impoverished village in Bangladesh. The American couple offered her transport
to America and a better life This is the testimony of Thuli, a
young girl from Nepal who was trafficked to India and sold into prostitution for
Rs 35,000, the equivalent of $720 A Honduras case study cited in
United Nations, Impact of Armed Conflict on Children When he was four years old, Iqbal
Masih was sold into bonded servitude by his parents, a common practice of
poor Pakistani families hoping to pay off debts owed to landlords and local
merchants Child
Slave Caught in Glittering Traps SIKASSO, MALI, and SINFRA, Ivory
Coast - Mali's modern-day slave traders do not bother with abductions any
more. They lure victims with a smile. "Hey there," a stranger
called, leaning out the window of a dented white mini-van as it chugged to a
stop on a dirt road. Two teenage brothers looked up at the driver. He
introduced himself as Solo. "You looking for work? Slaves
to chocolate: thousands of boys toil on Ivory Coast cacao farms Aly Diabate, from the country of
Mali, was 12 years old when a slave trader promised him $150 and a bicycle
for working on a cacao farm in Ivory Coast The iabolish Complete List of Slave Narratives1 Slave Narratives from around the
world No study or statistics can capture
the horror of trafficking and modern-day slavery like the words of its
survivors. HumanTrafficking.com has brought together one of the largest
collections of testimonies of survivors to help the world hear their voices. Anecdotes
of Workplace Abuse in Malaysia I worked for a husband, wife, two
girls and a boy. Sometimes I didn’t sleep…. I would wake up at 5:00 a.m. and
go to sleep at midnight, sometimes 1:00 a.m. or 2:00 a.m…. There were three families living
together in one big house and I was the only maid If my employers went out, they
locked the door from the outside and took the key I’m just a housemaid, I can’t ask
for anything. I am not allowed to talk to the neighbors I will go crazy here. They
don’t let me out, the employer won’t let me speak to anyone One employer explained: I think
it’s no good to let them out. If we allow them out, especially those
women from the village, they get influenced, they start to fight back If I asked for my salary, the employer hit me I worked for my second employer
for two years. They cut my salary 2000 ringgit (U.S.$526) in order to
renew my passport In Malaysia, the agent or employer
holds the salary. If I want to buy anything, I had to borrow money from
my employer I want to send money home, but my
employer won’t let me Every day something made [my
employers] angry. Every day the woman hit me many times with a wooden stick.
Sometimes she slapped me, sometimes she hit me with a hanger or a comb,
sometimes when I was cooking, she hit my head with tools [My employers] were fussy and
cruel. If I washed the dishes and they were still a little dirty, she
would take the glass and hit me with the glass It was hard to work for them
because there was not enough food. I got food once a day. If I
made a mistake, for example, if we ran out of rice and I forgot to tell the
employer, she wouldn’t give me food for two days The grandmother was always
angry. She never let me take a break. She always complained about
my mistakes. She also hit me When the lady went to drop off the
children to the grandmother’s house, the man would stay at home…. He
raped me many, many times The agent said I will take care of
old people. They promised me 350 ringgit [U.S.$92.10] a month, with
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