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Human Trafficking
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Resources for
Classroom Presentations to students 16 to 18 years-old Some of the
published articles listed below may prove to be useful in preparing talks intended
for youth, 16 to 18 years-old. They
were culled from the Human Trafficking
Lecture Resources page, and made suitable for this age group by removing
articles with references to sexual activity as well as other topics that may
not be suitable for 16 to 18-year-olds.
Innovative educational programs in the public schools may be key to solving part of the problem by reducing the scale
of local domestic trafficking. If we
can teach these students about how they may be targeted for exploitation, and
how they can raise a fuss and get help from people around them when/if they
sense that they are being entrapped, their chances of escape are greatly
enhanced. If we can teach them, in a
sensitive way, about some of the realities of life and some of the evil that
people inflict upon one another, this could engender a sense of abhorrence
and more caution on their parts, thereby decreasing the likelihood of making
bad decisions and being drawn into it. Young people
who are aware of the ugliness of the possible consequences of allowing
themselves to be enticed by seemingly friendly acquaintances, will be more
cautious and less likely to put themselves at risk. Child Soldiers - Sierra Leone Boy soldier 'recruited' at the age
of 6 The Times, March 30, 2004 www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/000179.html [accessed 25 April 2012] Kabba Williams is
thought to have been One day in
particular is etched on his memory. At the age of 12 he was given a group of
captives to kill. “I had the nickname ‘Hungry Lion’. I was given a bayonet.
They were tied up, six of them. I stabbed them repeatedly with the knife.” Commodification
of Children - For Albanians, It's Come to This: A
Son for a TV Nicholas Wood, The New York Times, www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/000159.html [accessed 18 January 2011] Fatmira Bonjaku's husband is in jail, accused by the police of selling
their 3-year-old son to an Italian man in return for the television set that
six other children watch in the family's dimly lighted room. The police also
say her husband had plans to sell their newest born, whom she is breast
feeding. Over the past 12
years, since the collapse of Stalinism here, a substantial trade in children
has established itself in Commodification
of Children - Street Life BBC World Service, 1st July 2000 www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/streetlife.shtml [accessed 21 February 2011] SLAVE TRADE - The neglect of Debt
Bondage - The Enslavement Of Dalit And Indigenous
Communities In UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights, February 2001 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] SUMMARY - This paper
describes the gross and continuing violation of the rights of millions of
people in Debt
Bondage - Slavery in the 21st century Alan McCombes,
Scottish Socialist Voice, November 2001 www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/2001/12/slavery-in-the-21st-century/959 [accessed 21 December 2011] Bonded labour otherwise known as debt slavery is rampant in In return for the
loan, the entire family is turned into the private property of the employer.
They are forced to work long hours for pitiful wage and half of these wages
are kept by the factory owner as payment towards the loan. The loan may take a generation or more to
pay off. But until it is paid, the family are held
in slavery. Iqbal had been sold
by his mother to a carpet manufacturer at the age of four. For years he spent
twelve hours a day, seven days a week working in carpet factories for a
pittance. He eventually rebelled
against his conditions and became a major figure in the BLLF. At the age of
12 he was traveling Deception
of Parents - Children saved from 'slavery' Agence France-Presse AFP, www.news24.com/Africa/News/Children-saved-from-slavery-20040507 [accessed 24 January 2011] The traffickers had managed to win
the confidence of the children's parents by convincing them that the
youngsters were to be taken to Many Muslim children from The official daily Sidwaya reported that the real fate of such victims,
snatched in several provinces in Deception
of Parents - Written statement from Anti-Slavery
International for agenda item 13 of the provisional agenda UN Economic and Social Council, Commission
on Human Rights, 56th Session, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 5 September 2011] Traffickers promise
good money and training in order to persuade the parents to send their
children abroad. However, after the children arrive in Even where children are rescued from these
conditions, they are likely to encounter feelings of alienation from their
own family and culture and must undergo a long and difficult task of
reintegration. Deception
of Victims - Argentina Argentina Rescues 700 from Human
Traffickers in 7 Months Victoria Rossi, In Sight, 21 August 2012 www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/argentina-rescues-human-traffickers [accessed 11 June 2013] www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/argentina-rescues-human-traffickers/ [accessed 13 August 2020 Most of the
trafficking victims, principally women and children, had been sexually
exploited and forced into labor, the report by the Office for Rescue and Care
of Victims of Trafficking stated. Of the 712 people recovered during more
than 300 raids across the country, 85 were below the age of 18. Nearly 370
hailed from outside Argentina. Many of the victims
were financially desperate and had been lured by false advertisements for
nanny or modeling positions, said Zaida Gatti, the coordinator of rescue efforts, reported El
Universal newspaper. Others had been kidnapped, Gatti
said. Deception
of Victims - Kin of human trafficking victims
seek Government intervention Asian News International ANI, Kendrapara Orissa, June 10, 2007 news.webindia123.com/news/ar_showdetails.asp?id=706100694&cat=&n_date=20070610 [accessed 20 February 2011] "Our brothers
(in A Bhubaneswar-based
placement agency lured seven youths of Kendrapara
District's Mangalpur and Raghunathpur
villages with an offer of lucrative job at Omega Wood Industry in The moment they
landed in Deception
of Victims - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
(German Press Agency) DPA, [accessed 29 August 2014] According to
police, the ring arranged for the Indonesian women to come to Luciana, one of the
victims, said she did not know it was a trick because she had a bona fide
wedding with her Taiwanese husband in Deception
of Victims - Former Human Trafficking Victim
Speaks Out KGMB CBS 9 News - May 3rd 2008 www.antitraf.net/home.php?mode=more&id=70&lang=en [accessed 11 June 2013] HAWAII - This young
Tongan named Francis came here in 2001, Lueleni Maka promised him $240 a week. He was paid only $20. "I ask him about the rest of my money.
Said he sent em back to my family, so I called my
parents and they said they never get nothing from
him," said former victim Francis. Maka told Francis he
would turn him into immigration if he tried to escape the pig farm he stayed
at. "He make
me afraid of him. He hit me a couple of times. yeah.
metal frames, I get scars on my back from him. Get
guys they worse than me. He beat 'em up till blood
coming out their mouth and nose. it's very sad. We
cannot do nothing. we so
scared of him," Francis said. Deception
of Victims - Trafficking of men appears in border
provinces humantrafficking21.blogspot.com/2007/10/trafficking-of-men-appears-in-border.html [accessed 15 August 2012] Two months ago, a
woman came to Phu’s hamlet to recruit workers to
work in Trafficking of
women is popular but trafficking of men is still very strange to both the
people and state agencies. Young boys like Diu and Phu
want to denounce the woman who sold them to Disappearances
– Children & Adults - Amnesty International, Index Number: AMR
29/004/2003, 28 July 2003 www.amnesty.org/es/documents/AMR29/004/2003/en/ [accessed 24 February 2015] Thousands of people
disappeared in Some were taken to
orphanages and other institutions, others were held
at military bases or kept in the houses of the soldiers and their families.
Yet others were put up for adoption (both within the country and abroad).
These are the disappeared children of Evil
Beyond Belief - Legal Program Advisor for Intercountry Adoption At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 5 September 2011] [scroll down to 6 September 2005] The wave of
violence and impunity that plagues Evil
Beyond Belief - Migrant Worker’s Death Exposes Slave-like
Conditions Anil Netto, Inter
Press Service News Agency IPS, ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37646 [accessed 8 September 2011] www.ipsnews.net/2007/05/labour-malaysia-migrant-workers-death-exposes-slave-like-conditions/ [accessed 3 September 2016] Ganesh was
reportedly subjected to daily beatings, deprived of food and sufficient rest,
and chained and locked in a dark room. He was eventually dumped in a wooded
area, but was found by villagers who sent him to hospital. He succumbed to
his injuries on Apr. 27. Pictures of his gaunt face, the horrendous bruises
on his back and his protruding rib cage shocked Malaysians. In hospital, he
was little more than a bag of blistered skin and bones. In Evil
Beyond Belief - Guest Worker May Lose Digits, Toes After
Being Tied Up in Bathroom for a Month Hassan Adawi,
Arab News, Jeddah, 23 March 2005 [accessed 24 June 2013] A 25 year-old
Indonesian guest worker will have several of her fingers, toes and part of
her right foot amputated because of gangrene after being tied up for a month
in a bathroom by her Saudi sponsor. The Indonesian Embassy noted that
2,000 housemaids have been repatriated to Evil
Beyond Belief - Ivan Cairo, Caribbean Net News, traffickingproject.blogspot.com/2008/04/suriname-police-detain-alleged-human.html [accessed 26 December 2010] Preliminary
investigations have revealed, said prosecutor Garcia Paragsingh,
that the four Vietnamese nationals working on the boat, were forced to hard labour on the vessel without payment, proper medical care
and food. For over a two year period, two of ill-treated crew members did not
receive payment for their work, while the remaining two fishermen told police
that for over one year they did not receive salaries and were not
allowed to leave the boat. The captain, a
Korean national, allegedly refused to allow them to see a doctor when
they became sick, while they were forced to work long hours under very
poor conditions even when they were physically unable to do so. According to
police sources, the worker who committed suicide apparently got sick and
asked to be taken to shore to seek medical treatment. After his requests were
rejected by the captain, the man hung himself. Exploitation
of Aboriginals - CAR Crime & Society - Comparative
Criminology tour of the World - Central African Republic Dr. Robert Winslow, www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/africa/central_african_republic.html [accessed 28 January
2011] TRAFFICKING IN
PERSONS
- The indigenous Ba'Aka often are coerced into agricultural,
domestic, and other types of labor within the country. The Ba'Aka often are considered to be the slaves of other
local ethnic groups, and subjected to wages far below those prescribed by the
labor code. Additionally there have been credible reports of three cases in
which persons obtained a Ba'Aka child by deception
and subsequently sent the child to Exploitation
of Children - Chocolate and Slavery: Child Labor in Samlanchith Chanthavong, Trade
& Environment Database TED Case Studies Number 664, 2002 www1.american.edu/ted/chocolate-slave.htm [accessed 20 February 2011] elib.unikom.ac.id/files/disk1/476/jbptunikompp-gdl-gunardiend-23777-9-chocolat-y.pdf [accessed 12 June 2017] SLAVERY AND THE LINK
TO CHOCOLATE
- Slave traders are trafficking boys ranging from the age of 12 to 16 from
their home countries and are selling them to cocoa farmers in Exploitation
of Children - Helping Children Reclaim Their Lives [PDF] 14 February 2006 www.tanzaniagateway.org/docs/reducing_childlabor_tanzania_through_Education.pdf [accessed 28 December 2010] In rural DETRIMENTAL WORKING
CONDITIONS
- Commercial agriculture in Exploitation
of Children - HRW Report: Human Rights Watch, 1 April 2003 www.hrw.org/en/node/76184/section/1 [accessed 30 December 2010] www.hrw.org/report/2003/04/01/borderline-slavery/child-trafficking-togo [accessed 13 August 2020] SUMMARY - SUMMARY - Boys worked from as
early as 5:00 a.m. until late at night, sometimes with hazardous equipment
such as saws or machetes. Some described conditions of bonded labor, whereby
their trafficker would pay for their journey to Forced
Begging - Bulgaria & Greece Human Trafficking Scheme from Bulgaria
Busted in Greece Sofia News Agency, August 16, 2012 www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=142382 [accessed 17 August 2012] Police in Greece
have cracked a network for human trafficking from Bulgaria, in which
Bulgarians were forced to beg. The undisclosed number of Bulgarians were held in an apartment in the
central Greek city of Larissa. The Bulgarians were
among the country's poor, and were lured with promises for work in
Greece. After that, they were
forcefully held, were made to beg in various European countries, and were
severely beaten at each attempt to escape. Greek police
discovered the network, after a 58-year-old male Bulgarian was hospitalized
after being abandoned outside the city following such a beating. Forced
Begging - Romanian Premier Interviewed in 'Le Monde' Radio Free Europe/Radio www.hri.org/news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-08-05.rferl.html#69 [accessed 5 February 2011] [69] ROMANIAN PREMIER
INTERVIEWED IN 'LE MONDE' - Prime Minister Adrian Nastase
said in an interview to the French daily "Le Monde" on 2 August
that Romania finds itself in an "extremely delicate and difficult
situation" as a result of the Romany criminal networks allegedly
engaging in human trafficking and forcing handicapped children into begging
in France. Forced
Begging - Guinea-Bissau-Senegal: On the child
trafficking route UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, Bafata, 23 November 2007 www.irinnews.org/report/75485/guinea-bissau-senegal-on-the-child-trafficking-route [accessed 1 March 2015] Children, brought from 100,000 CHILD
BEGGARS
- In 2004, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimated there were up to 100,000
child beggars in Forced
Begging - Yemen > Saudi Arabia Children in Poor Countries Need Help International Herald Tribune, July 29, 2010 gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/gangs-smuggling-yemeni-children-to-saudi-arabia-1.273504 [accessed 4 December 2011] GANGS SMUGGLING
YEMENI CHILDREN TO How
to get Help - USA Anti-Human Trafficking Resources - 888-3737-888 Homeland Security www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1265647798662.shtm [accessed 8 January 2011] VICTIMS - If you are a victim,
or believe you might be a victim, of human trafficking, seek help. The
toll-free National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline is available to
answer calls in over 170 languages from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. Call for help. Call
with questions - Any time - Any language - 888-3737-888 Call 911 if you are
experiencing an emergency Kidnapping
- Xinhua News Agency, July 25, 2007 www.christiantoday.com/article/china.arrests.nine.for.human.trafficking/11849.htm [accessed 28 January 2011] Chinese police
raided a human trafficking ring and arrested nine people for kidnapping and
selling children in northwestern and central The traffickers
snatched more than 20 children and sold some in Hongtong
county in the Xinhua said two of
the kidnappers, Wang Aizhong and Li Caimei, tricked kids to get on to their motorcycle on
their way to school or broke into houses to snatch babies. Kidnapping
- Powell Cites Exploitation In 10 Nations Associated Press AP, June 15, 2004 www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41729-2004Jun14.html [accessed 17 February 2011] Khan was 11 years
old when she was kidnapped from her home in the hill country of Kidnapping
- NBI raises alarm on child-organ trafficking ABS-CBN News Online, 24 Aug 2008 unionssaynotochildlabor.com/nbi-raises-alarm-on-child-organ-trafficking/ [accessed 16 December 2010] news.abs-cbn.com/nation/metro-manila/08/24/08/nbi-raises-alarm-child-organ-trafficking [accessed 12 February 2018] The National Bureau
of Investigation alerted the public on Sunday over the rampant smuggling of
human organs in the Kidnapping
- Lives of Street Children in The World Bank News, February 13, 2007 web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21218879~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html [accessed 21 December 2010] CHILD TRAFFICKERS
TARGETED
- Poor parents who cannot afford to care for their children often entrust
them to religious leaders known as marabous to educate them and teach them
the Koran. Child traffickers
posing as marabous will often kidnap the children from villages and take them
to Labor
- Adult - Gyumri’s Human Trafficking Victims Varduhi Zakaryan,
Hetq Online, January 15, 2007 hetq.am/eng/news/5409/gyumris-human-trafficking-victims.html/ [accessed 5 September 2014] “Seven of us lived
in one room, where we didn't even have the most basic facilities. We would be
kept partly hungry almost all the time – there would be days when we would
eat dry bread, cabbage stems and even days when we would go hungry. We had
already been working in those conditions for eight months when we learned
that Ararat had not sent any money back to our families, even though he would
swear on his brother's grave that our families were receiving payments
regularly each month,” narrated 42-year old Robert Karapetyan,
a resident of Gyumri. Labor
- Adult - Confronting the Taboo of Human Trafficking John Defterios, Khaleej Times Online, 13 March 2009 www.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/mme/blog/2009/03/horrific-traffic.html [accessed 18 August 2015] [scroll down] Forty-year-old Suryavathi Rao fled the home of her employer that morning
shoeless with only a nightgown and bible to her name. The years of domestic labour have taken
their toll. She could easily pass for
60 if not a few years older. After
working 16 hours a day, seven days a week for a year and a half, Suryavathi could not take it anymore. She said through a translator that her meagre salary of $108 a month
had not been paid for six months. She
complained about not being fed meals and surviving on the generosity of her neighbour another domestic worker who pulled together
leftovers to get by. Suryavathi could not get
through three sentences without breaking into tears. As a result of her fleeing for protection,
she has become a runaway worker with no rights. Her employer holds her passport. The best she can hope for is to get the
passport back and hope that the shelter can give her enough money to buy a
ticket and fly home to This is the life of a forced labourer and
the complex world of human trafficking.
Technically, Suryavathi was not trafficked. She had a sponsor agency that she paid
$1100 to back in Labor
- Adult - Botswana in sweat shops, human trafficking
crisis Gowenius Toka,
Sunday Standard, 21-10-2007 www.sundaystandard.info/article.php?NewsID=2186&GroupID=1 [accessed 23 January 2011] www.sundaystandard.info/botswana-in-sweat-shops-human-trafficking-crisis/ [accessed 13 August 2020] The Sunday Standard
turned up further information that another company, Zheng Ming, which
operated a sweatshop in Ramotswa, was part of an
international trade in modern day slavery. Industrial Court Judge, Elijah Legwaila, would later rule that “it appears that Chinese
nationals pay large sums of money to recruitment agencies who send them
abroad with all sorts of promises and that some Chinese nationals even leave
China with promises of work in developed countries and that by the time such
people land at any destination they have neither the money nor the bargaining
power to protect their rights. “These Chinese
nationals are then housed and fed in compounds at the pleasure of the
employer. Their passports, air tickets, work and residence permits are
retained by the employer.” Legwaila was passing judgment in a case in which Bin Quin
Lin, a Chinese national working for Zheng Ming Knitwear, was held in forced labour without pay. Chinese investors are the biggest
investors in the textile industry which exports garments to Labor
- Adult - Testimony of Sonia Beatriz Lara Campos The National Labor Committee, October 1999 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 September 2011] About 800 people
work there. There are 8 production lines, with 60 to 63 people in each,
plus other sections. The work
shift is Monday to Friday, beginning at 6:50am. They give us between 12
and 12:55 for lunch, with no other break. Leaving time is 7pm. On
Saturdays we worked from 6:50am to 4pm. Last year in April
we began to work at night. We worked from Monday to Friday 6:50am to 7pm, and from 7:30pm to 10:30pm. On Saturdays we
worked from 6:50am until 7pm. And on Sunday we worked from 6:50am to
5pm. Or, if we weren’t going to work on Sunday, we would work on Saturday
all night until 5:00 on Sunday morning.
The overtime hours, and working on Sundays, was
obligatory. As an inspector, I was required to work all these hours on
my feet. Labor
- Adult - Xan Rice in www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/16/eritrea-africa-human-rights-refugees [accessed 4 February 2011] Government's
policies on torture, conscription and mass detention creating refugee crisis,
Human Rights Watch says. There is no freedom
of speech, worship or movement in Labor
- Adult - Slavery: Worldwide Evil Charles Jacobs, President, American
Anti-Slavery Group At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 5 September 2011] Though many
Haitians work willingly in the Dominican sugar plantations ( Labor
- Adult - Charles Wallace, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] Suyatmi, a shy, 20-year
old factory worker, is too poor to know much about sneakers. She's never
heard of Bo Jackson and is too skinny to care about aerobics.
Her world consists of a rented, 5-foot sqaure room in a shantytown where she sits on the
concrete floor with three other young women.
Every day a t 7 a.m., Suyatmi
begins work at P.T. Hardaya Aneka Shoes Industry,
one of six companies in Indonesia making shoes for Nike Inc., the spectacurly successful U.S. sporting goods company. Her
production "line" of 30 workers produces 350 pairs of Nike's glitzy
footwear a day. Suyatmi
and her co-workers earn a base salary of 1,900 Indonesian rupiahs a day, the
equivalent of $1.15. Working a six-day week, with a
least two hours of overtime each day, she takes home about $17 per week. The
company also gives her lunch and a bus ride to work.
"Some days it's hard," she said.
"But I'm just happy to have a job." Labor
- Adult - Human Trafficking, Migrant Labor Often
Linked in Indonesia News Blaze, June 11, 2007 -- Source: U.S.
Department of State iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2007/06/20070607164452dybeekcm0.7253229.html#axzz3BKE2hiUo [accessed 24 August 2014] More than 2.5
million Indonesians from poorer regions support their families every year by
traveling overseas seeking work as domestic servants and laborers. Most work
in Some of these
individuals find work through officially sanctioned recruiting agencies. But Susilo estimates that more than half of would-be migrant
workers bypass these programs for the deceptive ease of working through less
reputable recruiters who, like traffickers the world over, confiscate
passports, trap would-be workers with exorbitant loans to travel abroad and
force them into laboring in dangerous and abusive work environments in a
futile effort to repay their unmanageable debts before sending money home to
their families. Labor
- Adult - Forced Labor? Male Migrant Workers In Suvendrini Kakuchi,
Inter Press Service IPS, www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/GF09Dh02.html [accessed 16 February 2011] www.ipsnews.net/2005/05/labour-japan-male-migrant-workers-too-have-it-tough/ [accessed 7 June 2017] "While the
problems of human trafficking focuses on women forced into sexual slavery in
Japan, there are many cases of coerced male labor in the country, a situation
that still goes ignored and needs urgent attention," said Tomoyuki
Yamaguchi, a counselor at the Asian Peoples' Friendship, a non-governmental
organization (NGO) supporting migrant workers. He points out that complaints by male workers sound very similar to
those of trafficked women, such as low wages, long and exhausting working
hours, and violence from their bosses.
The bulk of complaints are over unpaid overtime, sometimes running
into years, and injuries in the workplace. The counselor said many of the workers
were reluctant to confront their bosses for fear of being deported for
violating their tourist visas. Labor
- Adult - Remarks at Swearing-in Ceremony Mark P. Lagon,
Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] Last week in The isolated
10-acre factory was surrounded by steel walls, 15 feet tall with barbed wire
fencing, located in the middle of a coconut plantation far from roads.
Workers weren’t allowed to leave and were forbidden phone contact with any one outside. They lived in run-down wooden huts, with
hardly enough to eat. Aye Aye is a brave,
daring soul. She tried to escape with three other women. But factory guards
caught them and dragged them back to the camp. They were punished as an
example to others, tied to poles in the middle of the courtyard, and refused
food or water. Aye Aye told me how her now
beautiful hair was shaved off as another form of punishment, to stigmatize
her. And how she was beaten for trying to flee. Beaten. Tortured.
Starved. Humiliated. Is this not slavery?? Labor
- Adult - Human Trafficking Ring Raided in Associated Press AP, articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-07-20/news/0607200423_1_trafficking-ring-arrests-labor-camps [accessed 28 August 2014] "Gangsters
working in Labor
- Adult - Trafficking in Anti-Slavery International At one time this article had been archived and
may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 11 September 2011] CASE STUDY: SERGEY'S
STORY
- Sergey is 27 years old and from On arrival in Labor
- Adult - Indian workers' struggle shines light on
human trafficking, slave labor Sunil Freeman, Party for Socialism and
Liberation PSL, July 4, 2008 www2.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9509&news_iv_ctrl=1036 [accessed 18 June 2013] www.liberationnews.org/08-07-04-indian-workers-struggle-shines-html/ [accessed 26 February 2018] The plight of
immigrant Indian workers who were deceived into virtual slavery has brought
attention to the vile practice of human trafficking. Indian workers protest slave-like
conditions before the Department of Justice, Labor
- Adult - Human trafficking cases increase in El Paso Louie Gilot,
Libertas, November 12, 2006 libertasuiuc.blogspot.com/2006/11/human-trafficking-cases-increase-in-el_12.html [accessed 8 January 2011] Gardes showed the
photograph of a field worker standing on top of a large farm truck -- a scene
common across the Southwest. His name is Ricardo, she said. He was smuggled
across the border in Labor
- Adult - Vietnam Boycott "Blood Cashews" From
Vietnam Press Release, BPSOS - Boat People SOS,
June 13, 2012 www.law-forums.org/boycott-blood-cashews-from-vietnam-t70609.html [accessed 16 February 2016] [accessed 3 March 2019] At a recent hearing
before the US Congress, Dr. Nguyen Dinh Thang,
Executive Director of Boat People SOS (BPSOS), reported that Vietnamese
prisoners, including political prisoners, have similarly been subjected to
forced labor: "One Montagnard, jailed from 2002 through 2009, had to do this
for 7 years. His hands were injured by
the caustic resin from the cashew nuts because he was not allowed to wear
gloves." Speaking for CAMSA,
Mr. Vu Quoc Dung, Secretary General of Germany-based International Society
for Human Rights, denounces the dangerous cashew work in prisons such as the
Z30A Prison in Xuan Loc, where political prisoners
are forced each to process 32 kg of class B cashews daily. Some prisoners
have developed blindness as a result. Many have suffered injuries to their
faces and hands. Those failing to meet the assigned quota would be beaten
with a whip and kicked. Political prisoners who oppose forced labor have
reportedly been shackled and held in solitary confinement. Labor
- Child - Afghan carpet weavers are unpaid slaves,
rights activist says Syrian Arab News Agency [accessed 18 January 2011] Labor
- Child - Global March Worst Forms of Child Labour Report 2005 The US Dept. of Labor's 2003 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labour beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/argentina.html [accessed 16 August 2012] CHILD SLAVERY - . In a recent
raid by the police, Bolivian boys were discovered working as slaves in an
Argentine factory; These boys were forced to work 19-hour shifts, they are
prohibited from leaving, and they are often beaten to keep up the pace.
Authorities are still investigating how these undocumented youths slipped
past the border. The minors continued to work for almost two years, still
receiving no pay, and falling into further debt imposed by their 'owners.'
All too often those who risk coming to the city center find themselves
working in factory jobs in conditions of contemporary slavery. Labor
- Child - Bulgaria/Austria NEPAL:CHILD LABOR Hard Reality Two years ago, when
she was 10, Dochka lost what was left of her
innocence when she was sold to a band of child traffickers by her mother and
aunt in Bulgaria. Bewildered and terrified, the little girl was transported
to Labor
- Child - NGOs: gladiators of freedom [PDF] L. Corradini
& Asbel López, The
UNESCO Courier, June 2001 unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001227/122747e.pdf#122766 [accessed 30 January 2011] [page 40] At five in the
morning, well before most children get up to go to school, 12-year-old Abula sets out on a six-kilometre
barefoot trek along a road made of mud and stone to work on a coffee
plantation in Bouafle, Côte d’Ivoire. When he gets there,
wet and tired, the foreman tells him where he is to plant that day. “You have
to work fast because they threaten to punish and starve us if we don’t do the
set amount of work,” he says. “If we can’t work because we’re ill, we risk
being physically tortured. One day I saw them torture two friends of mine who
wanted to escape. Both of them ended up dead.” Labor
- Child - Book Review by Russell L. Blaylock, MD --
Source: NewsMax.com, Jan. 11, 2002 [accessed 17 July 2013] The stories of
immense human courage, while bringing you to tears, also fills you with hope
for the world, knowing that there are still men left in the world of such a
caliber. Particularly touching was the story of the young Pedro Luis Boitel thrown in a prison where he was starved, beaten
daily and tortured beyond human endurance for the crime of disagreeing with
the supreme leader. During imprisonment his legs became infected secondary to
the torture wounds. At that point he weighed a mere eighty pounds. He was
denied medical attention and eventually both of his legs had to be amputated.
He still refused to yield to his torturers. Not satisfied, Castro ordered him
thrown in an even worse dungeon where he soon died. This story was to be
repeated thousands of times. As proclaimed by
Hillary Clinton in her book, It Takes a
Village, Castro also boldly stated that the children belong to the State.
Forced labor and indoctrination disguised as education was enforced with a
gun. Children were forcibly taken away from their parents at a tender age and
made to do hard labor in the cane and tobacco fields. The American media saw
it as Cuban patriotism, as did the useful idiot American students who travel
to Labor
- Child - Human Rights Watch Reports, www.hrw.org/reports/2001/egypt/Egypt01.htm#P46_655 [accessed 3 February 2011] Each year over one
million children between the ages of seven and twelve are hired by Labor
- Child - The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/ghana.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Children from Labor
- Child - Police rescue trafficking suspect from mob
fury July 17, 2007 www.kalingatimes.com/orissa_news/news/20070717_Police_rescue_trafficking_suspect.htm [access date unavailable] Police on Tuesday
rescued a former employee of a Bhubaneswar-based placement agency facing
charges of trafficking youths from this region to The mob badly beat
up Sunil Das and held him captive in the village. The irate mob pounced on
him demanding the refund of money that the A Dalit youth from
this part of the state had undergone a two-month-long nightmarish ordeal in Labor
- Child - Nirakar Poudel,
Media for Freedom, -- Source:
www.mediaforfreedom.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=3055 www.iccle.org/050807.php [accessed 23 February 2011] An orphan from an
early age, Madan Karki (name changed),14, used to
work at his uncle's small farm in Jeevanpur of Dhading District, 50 kilometer west of capital. Madan's
job was to take the cattle for grazing the whole day. One day, a family
friend approached him with offer for work at his home in However, the man
instead engaged him at a carpet factory in After working in harsh
conditions for about eight months in the factory, Madan –who was not paid -
fled the factory to work as a helper in a gas tempo. Now, he earns about Rs 1000 (approximately $15) a month. Madan's case is not
a unique one as this is the reality of many child workers in Because Labor
- Child - Children working in Lansana Fofana,
BBC News, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3189299.stm [accessed 22 December 2010] BLESSINGS - Undoubtedly, the
children number several thousands, and many of them get the blessing of their
parents, who have come to see them as breadwinners of the impoverished
families. Over the past few days, I
have been visiting the mine sites here and what I see is incredible. The children aged between seven and 16 go
to the mines as early as 0800 and work through to 1800. They do hard labour,
like digging in soil and gravel, before sifting with a pan for gemstones and
shifting heavy mud believed to contain diamonds. Labor
- Child - The Curse of Cotton: International Crisis Group, www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/asia/central-asia/093-the-curse-of-cotton-central-asias-destructive-monoculture.aspx [accessed 16 January 2011] www.files.ethz.ch/isn/28408/093_curse_of_cotton_central_asia_destructive_monoculture.pdf [accessed 5 October 2016] 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 Official
Complicity - Human trafficking in the maldivesdissent.blogspot.com/2009/03/human-trafficking-in-maldives.html [accessed 20 February 2011] The Human Rights
Commission of the But the
dispossessed labourers found themselves in a place
that couldn't have been more different to their dreams. Without proper
documents they were unable to report to the police and susceptible to
exploitation and extortion by unscrupulous Maldivians. Official
Complicity - Slavery: Mauritania's best kept secret Pascale Harter, BBC News, Nouakchott, 13
December 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4091579.stm [accessed 17 April 2012] In answer to the
Mauritanian government's assertion that slavery no longer exists in Boubakar Messaoud and other members of SOS Slaves have been
imprisoned and harassed by the authorities for their anti-slavery campaign.
It seems the government has little interest in really wiping out slavery.
Meanwhile, slavery remains Official
Complicity - Government officials behind record rise in Karen Ryan, The At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 September 2011] There are villages
in the Southern region of Official
Complicity - Pak Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Human Rights Watch/Asia, Library of
Congress Catalog Card Number: 95-77876, ISBN 1-56432-154-1, July 1995 www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1995/Pakistan.htm [accessed 15 December 2010] SUMMARY - Millions of
workers in Poverty
- Human Trafficking Becomes Attractive Nation.ittefaq.com, 11 February 2005 –
Source: nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/printer_16178.shtml Click [here]
to connect to the article. Its URL is
not displayed because of its length [accessed 21 January 2011] They
said tens of thousands of women and children are trafficked out each year
from Poverty
- Scale of African slavery revealed BBC News, 23 April, 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3652021.stm [accessed 23 January 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 Poverty
- African "slave ship" highlights
spread of child slavery Trevor Johnson, World Socialist Web Site,
19 April 2001 www.wsws.org/articles/2001/apr2001/slav-a19.shtml [accessed 23 January 2011] Although there may be
a superficial resemblance to the African slave trade of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, the driving forces behind this modern form of slavery
are entirely new. The roots of today's slave trade are to be discovered in
the way that capitalism has developed in The conditions of
extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa have attracted transnational
corporations (TNCs), which can profit from Poverty
- Child trafficking takes new forms in
Southeast Asia Rafael D. Frankel, Special to The Christian
Science Monitor, Battambang www.csmonitor.com/2001/1212/p7s2-woap.html [accessed 26 January 2011] When he was 12, his
parents in rural "The
trafficker told my parents he would send them $55 a month," the boy
says. "But I would earn $18 or $25 every day or night I begged." Over the next three
years, the boy escaped twice and made his way home. But the trafficker found
him, repurchased him, and took him back to Poverty
- Gem industry in need of regulation UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, Ilakaka, 17 September 2003 www.irinnews.org/report/46200/madagascar-feature-gem-industry-in-need-of-regulation [accessed 19 February 2011] One of the most
disturbing aspects of The report noted
that children are often exposed to very serious dangers and can, for example,
die of suffocation if the mine caves in.
Dominique Rakotomanga, who works for IPEC in
the capital, Poverty
- Why Nepal's freed labourers
want to return to slavery Sanjaya Dhakal,
Kathmandu, OneWorld South us.oneworld.net/places/nepal/-/article/why-nepals-freed-laborers-want-return-slavery [accessed 9 December 2010] sajha.com/archives/openthread.cfm?threadid=13840 [accessed 13 August 2020] "Between 15
and 20 percent of the families declared free have returned to the same old
practice of slavery," says Dilli Chaudhary,
president of an NGO called Backward Society Education. Bonded labourers in Under the practice,
once indebted, the labourer and his heirs are
'bonded' to the landlord. They had to actually reside on the landlord's
property until the debt was completely repaid, which seldom happened. Poverty
- Human Trafficking: Greed and the Trail of
Death The Independent, 5/25/2006 www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=8393 [accessed 23 December 2010] anthony.sogang.ac.kr/Somalia.htm [accessed 15 January 2020] The human
trafficking trade out of Dozens corpses are
found floating in the Arabian Sea every month, often with gunshot wounds,
often with hands tied behind their back - victims of traffickers who have
jettisoned their cargo in the most final way. Progress
Needed - Awareness of Human Trafficking Among Young
People in Alison Y. Boak,
Kenneth W. Griffin, Debra Jones & Vita Karklina
-- 29th Annual Conference, Global Health in Times of Crisis, 28-31 May 2002 72.3.236.96/conference_2002/abstracts/a5.php3 [accessed 17 April 2012] CONCLUSIONS - While youth in
Latvia are largely aware of human trafficking, most don't believe it really
happens in Latvia. Furthermore, while the majority of youth are interested in
working abroad, many don't know how to take basic precautions to ensure their
safety. These findings suggest that awareness of the reality of trafficking
needs to be raised among youth in Religion
& Slavery - From Slavery to Freedom...Please read Ayiti Ap
Bon, 01-22-02 www.haitiwebs.com/showthread.php?t=20504 [accessed 25 December 2010] Bok said he was
captured by the raiders and, along with two little girls, was placed on a
donkey and carted north. "The girls were crying, and when they did not
stop after being told to do so, a soldier pulled out his pistol and shot one
of them," he said. "The other girl kept crying, and then he shot
her." Bok was taken to Kirio, he said, where he was given to an Arab man, who
presented him to the entire household. They all beat him. "They always
called me 'abeed,' which means black slave, and I
had to sleep with the cows," he said, adding that he was always fed
leftovers from the master's table. Help the Children Information and Research Centre for
Children's Rights in At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 3 September 2011] THE EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES THE ORGAN TRANSPLANTS IN ALBANIA - According to
these articles, a clinic in Fieri city, practices the removal of the children
organs to further transport them in Italy and France, with involvement by
Italian and French groups and individuals», writes Karamanu
in her letter. «According to the media, these doctors mobilise
Albanian networks, which pay the children’s parents whose organs are removed.
Apart form this, figures
report 39 missing children with no trace in BBC News, 23 February, 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3513439.stm [accessed 20 January 2011] The Azerbaijani
government says it is keen to crack down on child traffickers who are
believed to take children abroad and sell their organs for profit. "Under the
guise of adoption, children who are allegedly afflicted by grave diseases are
taken out of Six charged in organ trafficking case at Jan Richter, Radio www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/six-charged-in-organ-trafficking-case-at-brno-hospital [accessed 31 January 2011] Between 2003 and
2004, five employees of the tissue bank at the Brno-Bohunice
hospital, together with one outsider, sold 7 million crowns worth of skin
graft to a Dutch company. The Organized Crime Squad of the Czech police have
now finished investigating the case and charged the persons involved with
illegal organ trafficking. It took the Czech
police three and a half years to close the case of illegal organ trafficking
at a hospital in Organ trafficking on the rise in Sarah Sheffer, Bikya Masr (Egyptian: resellable
clutter), www.masress.com/en/bikyamasr/50684 [accessed 13 June 2013] A shocking new
report by the Coalition for Organ Failure Solutions (COFS) Egypt indicates
that organ trafficking is on the rise in the country, as traffickers continue
to target Sudanese refugees and other asylum seekers in the nation. According to the report, entitled “Sudanese
Victims of Organ Trafficking in COFS estimates that
there are thousands of victims of organ trafficking in Bruce Johnston in www.vachss.com/help_text/a2/italy_baby_sales.html [accessed 14 February 2011] The three-strong
gang of Ukrainians, including the baby's mother, sold the boy for 350,000
euros (£250,000) while he was still in the womb, not realising
that the successful bidders were undercover carabinieri police officers. Six held over nun's murder in Mozambique The Australian, 2 March 2004 cathnews.acu.edu.au/403/12.php [accessed 22 February 2011] www.iol.co.za/news/africa/brazilian-missionary-found-dead-in-mozambique-206721 [accessed 13 January 2020] Four missionary
nuns living in the same town told Portuguese radio TSF last week that they
had recently had a narrow escape from an armed ambush after presenting what
they said was evidence that local children were being killed so that their
organs could be sold. The four nuns told
a Spanish newspaper earlier this month that they had gathered testimony from
would-be victims of the network who had managed to escape and had photographs
of dead children with missing organs. Slavery
in the Home - Domestics - Beatings, Isolation and Fear: The Life of a
Slave in the Pierre Thomas, Jack Date and Theresa Cook,
ABC News, May 21, 2007 abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3190006&page=1 [accessed 26 January 2011] Evelyn Chumbow was once a slave, but not in some distant
country. She worked right here in the Slavery
in the Home - Domestics - Seeking Hemalatha
- Letter from Lebanon - Sri Lankan domestic missing in Lebanon Reem Haddad, New
Internationalist, Nov, 2002 www.newint.org/columns/letters-from/2002/11/01/hemalatha/ [accessed 17 August 2012] 'Her name is Hemalatha Mendis,' explained
one official. 'We received these photographs this morning. We don't know for
sure where she is but we believe she is being held at the agency which
brought her to the country. Hundreds
of such agencies have sprung up in Later that day I
met with Hemalatha. Her employer had described her
as 'a problem' and had wanted to return her to the agency. This prompted the
agency owner to 'take out a big stick and start beating my back, my arms and
my legs,' she said. 'I tried to cover my body but I couldn't. I was crying
and my head began to throb with pain.
Once finished, the owner turned to the employer and said: 'If you have
any more problems with her just bring her to me.' Slavery
in the Home - Domestics - Saudis Import Slaves to Daniel Pipes, www.danielpipes.org/2687/saudis-import-slaves-to-america [accessed 21 December 2010] It's shocking,
especially for a graduate student and owner of a religious bookstore - but
not particularly rare. Here are other examples of enslavement, all involving
Saudi royals or diplomats living in Slavery
in the Home - Domestics - Thailand 50 Year Old Anti-Slavery Law Used in
Thailand to Combat Human Trafficking humantrafficking.org, News & Updates,
17 May 2007 -- Adapted from: "Of human bondage: After 50 years, the
anti-slavery law is finally being enforced." Bangkok Post. Outlook, 8
May 2007 www.humantrafficking.org/updates/633 [accessed 29 December 2010] www.pressreader.com/thailand/bangkok-post/20070508/282385510079914 [accessed 19 February 2018] Chand was forced to
work from 4am to midnight every day, serving 50-year-old Wipaporn
Songmeesap and her family of six. Instructed never
to leave the house or contact her parents, fear-stricken Chand was only
allowed to eat once or twice a day, unless her boss was angry with her, in
which case she went hungry. When unhappy with her work, Wipaporn would violently beat her with an iron rod or a
belt with a metal buckle, said Chand. She was never sent to the doctor, and
repeated beatings kept opening old wounds, leading to a severe infection. The legal efforts
to take Chand's employer to court for the crime of slavery began two years
ago. In a landmark verdict last month, the Criminal Court sentenced Wipaporn to more than 10 years in jail for abusing Chand
as a slave. The mother of four was also ordered to pay Chand 200,000 baht in
compensation. Despite an appeal by the defendant, history was made. The
country's 51-year-old anti-slavery law had been enforced for the first time,
paving the way for future cases to tackle human trafficking and slavery. Slavery
in the Home - Domestics - Children rescued from trafficking wait with
their nightmares to go home U.N. Integrated Regional Information
Networks IRIN, [accessed 1 March 2015] The wisp of a girl
sits silently to one side, staring at the scarred tips of her fingers.
Probably no more than five years old, Enyonam has
just arrived at a center for trafficked children in the Togolese capital, Slavery
in the Home - Domestics - Child maids now being exported to US Associated Press AP, Dec-28-2008 www.nbcnews.com/id/28415693/ns/us_news-life/t/child-slavery-now-being-imported-us/#.U-pBb6Oumdk [accessed 12 August 2014] www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2008/12/child_house_maids_now_being_ex.html [accessed 29 June 2017] Shyima was 10 when a
wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in northern Once behind the
walls of gated communities like this one, these children never go to school.
Unbeknownst to their neighbors, they live as modern-day slaves, just like Shyima, whose story is pieced together through court
records, police transcripts and interviews. Shyima cried when she
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