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The early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/ CAUTION: There is always a risk
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Some of the following links may possibly lead to websites that present
information that is unsubstantiated or even false. Their authenticity has not been verified
and their content has not been validated. Ahsania Mission monitors 40,000 families [access information unavailable] Life changed for Zarina (not a real name) when she was separated from her
family. '1 got separated from my family when a man took me to 'One day we set for Mumbai with Siddique'. On arrival in Mumbai, the man sold us to a
dance bar owner. 'A few months later, my sister and brother-in-law escaped
the 'hell,' but I was forced to stay back to do flesh trade there against my
will. Tales of sex and sadness from inside Amelia Hill, The Observer, 23 December 2007 www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/dec/23/communities.socialexclusion [accessed 20 August 2011] 'I'D BEEN
DREAMING OF A FUTURE AS A WIFE AND A MOTHER' - 'I had been working as a waitress,
dreaming of a future as a wife and mother,' 'He beat me and made me live with
another girl who spied on me. She wouldn't leave me for a second and reported
to this man if I did anything that looked like trying to escape. He forced me
to work in the brothel, but the clients complained because I just cried all
the time. The manager asked me what was wrong. I didn't have the language to
express myself, but eventually I managed to explain. I don't think she felt
sorry for me, but she saw that I wasn't going to earn her brothel any money
because I would never willingly work. She helped me to escape and I went to
the police. This has damaged my life in all directions. I have no dreams now
and no hopes. I have nothing.' Owed Justice - Thai Women Trafficked into Debt Bondage in Human Rights Watch, September 2000 -- ISBN
1-56432-252-1 Library of Congress
00-107963 www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2000/japan/4-profiles.htm [accessed 20 August 2011] IV. PROFILES - In this chapter, Human Rights
Watch profiles four women who were trafficked from POT - It was a big room and four or five other women
going to work in 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 The route to hell Louisa Waugh, The Scotsman, Aug 22, 2006 living.scotsman.com/features/The-route-to-hell.2804124.jp [accessed 20 August 2011] 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 New news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=7cff91dbcbc45f06a8a6d7b69538f010 [accessed 20 August 2011] 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. Sex trafficking strikes closer
to home than thought S.M. Berg, The www.theportlandalliance.org/2004/nov/pdxtrafficking.htm [accessed 20 August 2011] 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. On Nov. 5, 2003, a woman taken
from the Traffickers forced three dozen
Mexican men and boys recruited in Arizona to work 60 hours a week on farms
near Buffalo, N.Y. for $30 a week. Scale of African slavery revealed BBC News, 23 April, 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3652021.stm [accessed 20 August 2011] 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 Online Focus - Slavery in Jeffrey Kaye, Public Broadcasting Service PBS Online NewsHour, www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june01/slavery_3-8.html [accessed 20 August 2011] Transcript of a NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Putting a Stop to the Exploitation www.freedommag.org/english/vol36i2/page21.htm [Last access date unavailable] Concerned human rights activists
unite to end the scourge of sex slavery across all borders - by Tom Paquette Sexual Slavery In C.S.I. , February 9, 2004 -- Source:
www.scientology.org/news-media/news/2004/040209.html groups.yahoo.com/group/Shetubondhon/message/7981?l=1 [accessed 20 August 2011] She was a teenage girl from an
impoverished village in Child Trafficking www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/iclp/bulletin/Sept2002.htm#001 [accessed 20 August 2011] This is the testimony of Thuli, a young girl from Child Soldiers www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/iclp/bulletin/Sept2002.htm#002 [accessed 20 August 2011] A Child Labor and Sweatshops www.enotes.com/child-labor-article [accessed 20 August 2011] 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 Corinna Schuler, National Post, 4/17/2001 www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/childslaves.html#childslaves [accessed 20 August 2011] Slaves to chocolate: thousands of boys toil on Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication, www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-85103768.html [partially accessed 30 January 2011] Aly Diabate,
from the country of Anecdotes of Workplace Abuse in Human Rights Watch, Help
Wanted: Abuses against Female Migrant Domestic Workers in www.hrw.org/reports/2004/indonesia0704/6.htm [accessed 20 August 2011] 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 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 four months deduction Case study 3 (Victim - U.A.E.) [PDF] International Organization for Migration IOM,
"Trafficking in Women and Children from the www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/iom_2001__child_women_traff.pdf [accessed 27 August 2011] [page 48] "I met my boyfriend at my
girl-friend’s house. He had been dating me for a month already when he told
me he was going to marry me. My boyfriend told me we could earn some money
for our wedding if we went to work in We would stay for three months
there to earn enough money and come back. I was extremely happy. I could not
believe all that was happening to me. He took my passport and all necessary
papers and said that he would take care of visa and travel arrangements. I
was so happy and careless that I did not even ask to see the tickets or
documents. The day of departure came. We took the plane and instead of He took me to a hotel and said that
he was going to see his friend and would be back soon. Two hours later a man
came to take me to another hotel saying that I was his property. I could not
understand, I kept saying that it was a misunderstanding and that my friend
would come soon. I had come to Testimony of Anita Polaris Project At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 August 2011] I felt very scared that evening
and I refused to eat anything. I soon noticed that many men were coming in
and out of the house and I realized it was a brothel. I began howling and
shouting. I said that I wanted to leave. Renu Lama
told me that I was ignorant. She said that I did not just come easily and I
could not go easily. She said that I had been bought and I would have to work
as a prostitute in order to pay them back. On the fourth day that I was in
the brothel, my first client came to me. I refused to have sex with him. He
had already paid so he grabbed me and tried to rape me. I fought him off. He
had managed to get my clothes off but he was very frustrated because I was
resisting him so much. He stormed out and asked for his money back. A couple
of the brothel owners (voluntary prostitutes) came in and beat me. When they
were done, the same man came back in. Some of my associates overheard
the owners saying that they were also planning to sell me to a brothel in Sarat because I was too much trouble. I decided that I
could not wait until the boy returned from Testimony of Bopha Polaris Project At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 August 2011] Bopha lived in a rural village and
married at 17. Her husband immediately took her to a hotel in another village
and left her. Bopha discovered the hotel was a
brothel and tried to escape, but she was forcibly detained and told she must
pay off the price the hotel owner had paid for her. Testimony of Deng Polaris Project actioncenter.polarisproject.org/the-frontlines/survivor-testimonies/38-testimonies/60-testimony-of-den [Last access date unavailable] Deng, in her late 20's, was
recruited in her native Testimony of E.R. Polaris Project actioncenter.polarisproject.org/the-frontlines/survivor-testimonies/38-testimonies/66-testimony-of-er [Last access date unavailable] "My name is E.R. and I am
from Elbasan. When I was 15, my parents married me,
against my will, to a man aged 35, whom I did not love. So started my
miseries. Not too long afterwards, I
abandoned him and returned to my family. But my parents did not accept me
back because I had dishonored them by leaving my husband. I had no support
and nowhere to go. I got acquainted with a boy who was 20 who said he loved
me and promised to marry me. He convinced me to go to Victims' Stories US State Department, Office To Monitor and Combat
Trafficking in Persons, Trafficking in Persons Report 2010 www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2010/142751.htm [accessed 20 August 2011] TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2010 - The victims’ testimonies
included in this report are meant to be representative only and do not
include all forms of existing trafficking. Any of these stories could take
place anywhere in the world. They illustrate the many forms of trafficking
and the wide variety of places in which trafficking occurs. Many of the
victims’ names have been changed in this report. Most uncaptioned photographs
are not images of confirmed trafficking victims, but they show the myriad
forms of exploitation that define trafficking and the variety of cultures in
which trafficking victims are found. |