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Deception of Parents
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Bangladesh Inside the slave trade Johann Hari, The Independent, 15 March 2008 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/inside-the-slave-trade-795307.html [accessed 21 January 2011] They are promised a
better life. But every year, countless boys and girls in Bangladesh are
spirited away to brothels where they have to prostitute themselves with no
hope of freedom. This is the story of
the 21st century’s trade in slave-children. My journey into their underworld
took place where its alleys and brothels are most dense - Asia, where the
United Nations calculates 1 million children are being traded every day. It
took me to places I did not think existed, today, now. To a dungeon in the
lawless Bangladeshi borderlands where children are padlocked and
prison-barred in transit to Indian brothels; to an iron whore-house where
grown women have spent their entire lives being raped; to a clinic that treat
syphilitic 11-year-olds. She comes into the
room swaddled in a red sari, carrying big premature black bags under her
eyes. She tells her story in a slow, halting mumble. Sufia
grew up in a village near Khulna in the south-west of Bangladesh. Her parents
were farmers; she was one of eight children. “My parents couldn’t afford to
look after me,” she says. “We didn’t have enough money for food.” And so came the
lie. When Sufia was 14, a female neighbour came to her parents and said she could find her
a good job in Calcutta as a housemaid. She would live well; she would learn
English; she would have a well-fed future. “I was so excited,” Sufia says. “But
as soon as we arrived in Calcutta I knew something was wrong,” she says. “I
didn’t know what a brothel was, but I could see the house she took me to was a bad house, where the women wore small clothes and
lots of bad men were coming in and out.” The neighbour
was handed 50,000 takka – around £500 – for Sufia, and then she told her to do what she was told and
disappeared. –
htcp Burkina
Faso 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 Trafficking in children in Denmark Red Barnet, Save the Children www.redbarnet.dk/Default.aspx?ID=2209 [Last accessed 1 February 2011] Children are sold
to They come to 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. GHANA-GAMBIA: Sex slave children trafficked
by Ghanaian fishermen Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report/48765/ghana-gambia-sex-slave-children-trafficked-by-ghanaian-fishermen [accessed 24 February 2015] According to the
Gambian National Intelligence Agency, the girls were smuggled into the
country without official papers to work as sex slaves for their Ghanaian
masters. Ceesay confirmed
this. She said the girls were forced to “satisfy the sexual desires of older
men” and some were working full-time as prostitutes within the 5,000-strong
Ghanaian community. Meanwhile, their
masters’ own children went to school and had all their usual domestic chores,
like washing their school uniforms and even cleaning their shoes, done for
them by the trafficked children. The trafficked children
told Gambian officials they had been forbidden to contact their parents at
home. Reports of child
slavery are common across Sometimes parents
are told that the child will work as a domestic for rich folk and will be
able to send back remittances to ease the family’s grinding poverty. The promises soon
vanish into thin air. Many parents never see or hear from their children
again. Lithuania A barbaric trade in human misery right on
our doorsteps Chris Bond, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/A-barbaric-trade-in-human.3490580.jp [accessed 18 February 2011] "One of the
first victims we helped in the "She was
phoned up by someone and asked if she would like to sell ice cream for the
summer in London and was told she would earn about £300." The traffickers signed a consent form and
her parents, believing it was a good opportunity, approved the trip. "She was flown to Gatwick and sold in
a coffee shop from one trafficker to another for £3,000,
her passport was taken off her and sold for £4,000. "Later the same night, she was taken
to a flat and brutalised and raped, and from that
moment on she was forced to act as a prostitute." Child Prostitution worsens in Cities Pilirani Semu-Banda,
Nation Online, Jun 04, 05 [accessed 17 April 2012] She said for All material used herein
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