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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery People’s Republic of Bangladesh [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The People's Republic of Bangladesh is a source and transit
country for men and women trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual
exploitation and involuntary servitude. It is also a source country for
children - both girls and boys - trafficked for commercial sexual
exploitation, bonded labor, and other forms of involuntary servitude. Women
and children from Bangladesh are trafficked to India and Pakistan for sexual
exploitation. Bangladeshi women also migrate legally to the Gulf for work as
domestic servants, but often find themselves in situations of involuntary
servitude when faced with restrictions on movement, non-payment of wages, and
physical or sexual abuse. In addition, Bangladeshi men and women migrate to
Malaysia, the Gulf, and Jordan to work in the construction or garment
industry, but sometimes face conditions of involuntary servitude, including
fraudulent recruitment offers; debt bondage may be facilitated by large
pre-departure fees imposed by Bangladeshi recruitment agents. Internally,
Bangladeshis are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation, domestic
servitude, and bonded labor. Some Burmese women who are trafficked to India
transit through Bangladesh. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2007 [full country
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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are trafficked internally, externally, and through Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – There
was extensive trafficking in both women and children, primarily to According to government sources,
law enforcement personnel recovered 139 victims of trafficking during the
year. A cooperative effort between NGOs, the government, and the UAE,
resulted in the repatriation of 164 camel jockeys, 159 of whom were reunited
with their biological parents. The other five remained in NGO shelters at
year's end, receiving social and vocation skills training while the NGO
attempted to locate their families. BNWLA rescued 314 trafficking
victims from within the country and repatriated 32 others from the UAE and The exact number of women and
children trafficked was unknown. Most trafficked persons were lured by
promises of good jobs or marriage, and some were forced into involuntary
servitude outside of and within the country. Parents sometimes willingly sent
their children away to escape poverty. Unwed mothers, orphans, and others
outside of the normal family support system were also susceptible. Traffickers
living abroad often arrived in a village to marry a woman, only to dispose of
her upon arrival in the destination country, where women were sold into
bonded labor, menial jobs, or prostitution. Criminal gangs conducted some of
the trafficking. The border with Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2003 [73] The Committee is deeply
concerned at the high incidence of trafficking in children for purposes of
prostitution, domestic service and to serve as camel jockeys and at the lack
of long‑term, concentrated efforts on the part of the State party to
combat this phenomenon. Combating
Trafficking for Forced Labor Purposes in the OSCE Region For example, a contract labor
agency in Bangladesh advertised work at a garment factory in Jordan. The ad
promised a 3-year contract, $425 per month, 8 hour workdays, 6 days a
week, paid overtime, free accommodations, free medical care, free food, and
no advance fees. Instead, upon arrival, workers (who were obliged to pay
exorbitant advance fees) had passports confiscated, were confined to
miserable conditions, and were prevented from leaving the factory. Months
passed without pay, food was inadequate, and sick workers were tortured.
Because most workers had borrowed money at inflated rates to get the
contracts, they were obliged through debt to stay. The sad truth is that we
find workers across the globe holding on to the thin hope that they will
eventually get paid, or that conditions will improve, because if they leave,
there is no hope that they will be able to repay the debt. Human trafficking on rise across bordering districts Speakers at a view-exchange
meeting yesterday said that the incidents of human trafficking are on the
rise across the bordering districts.
The meeting revealed that between June 15, 2004 and September 2006,
488 victims were rescued, 379 traffickers were detained and 444 victims were
handed over to their legal guardian.
The rest of the victims are taking shelter in different shelter homes
in the country. 21 points in
border areas vulnerable Human trafficking is the third most
profitable business after drugs and gunrunning in the South Asian region and
twenty-one points in the border have been identified as vulnerable areas in
Bangladesh. Prof Shamim said that
representatives from the SAARC countries recommended widening of the scope of
SAARC Convention to exceed beyond prostitution to include many types of
exploitations, including forced and indentured labour, camel jockeys and
organ transplantation. Bangladesh
busts human trafficking ring: 34 rescued The women and children, some as
young as five-years-old, were brought by the traffickers from four
neighbourhood districts with false promises of lucrative jobs in India. But they are mostly forced into
prostitution as they illegally enter India, said Adhikar, a local
non-government charity for children from poor families. Church
Mission Society Drive Against Sex Trade in Bangladesh Women particularly at risk are
those living in areas where HIV is still relatively uncommon, with most of
the trafficked women are sold in to Mumbhai, Rajasthan and Bihar in Bangla
prostitution racket busted The minor girl, Mallika, hailing from
a poverty stricken family, was approached by a 'sympathetic-looking'
Bangladeshi woman, who offered to take the girl to Mumbai with the promise
that the family would see a change in their fortunes. At Apna Ghar, Mallika narrated her woeful
tale of being bought in from U.S.
Report On Human Trafficking Reveals
Scope Of Modern-Day Slavery He said several countries listed
in the bottom category last year, including Human
Trafficking Becomes Attractive They said tens of thousands
of women and children are trafficked out each year from Children from Pakistan, Bangladesh
and Sudan are still being smuggled to the United Arab Emirates to work as
camel jockeys, despite a law passed two years ago banning their use. It is not uncommon for child jockeys to
fall off and be injured while racing, and their illegal status means race
track owners are often reluctant to take them to hospital. Instead, says Ansar Burney, the boys often
arrive with broken hands or broken legs. And many, he says, have been
sodomized. Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide U.S. Library of Congress
- Country Study Four
Nations Move Against Trafficking in Response to U.S. Report Bangladesh,
Ecuador, Guyana and Sierra Leone have acted rapidly over the last few months
to reduce human trafficking in their borders. In so doing, they have avoided
U.S.-imposed sanctions, according to a White House announcement September 10.
The United States issued a warning
of sorts in June when it released its annual survey of human trafficking
activities worldwide. These four nations were cast in the lowest ranking,
reflecting their inaction in lawmaking and law enforcement to control human
trafficking through their borders. 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: a
nice job as their nanny and housekeeper, wages and opportunity. The dream
offer dissolved into a nightmare as soon as she reached sunny Southern
California. The couple informed her she owed them a huge sum for bringing her
into the country and forced her to work without wages for years in their
home, where she was repeatedly raped and beaten by the husband and abused by
the wife. After three failed attempts, and with the help of good Samaritans,
she finally escaped. TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS - In West Bengal, the organized traffic
in illegal Bangladeshi immigrants was a principal source of bonded labor.
Calcutta was a convenient transit point for traffickers who send Bangladeshis
to New Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh, and the Middle East. Ground-breaking
surveys expose plight of Bangladesh's working children The most detailed picture ever
compiled of the conditions endured by Bangladesh’s most disadvantaged
children - those working in what are classified as the worst forms of child
labour – has revealed that many are working 10 hours a day, 6 days a week,
sometimes for only food and a bed. Despite these gruelling hours the
vast majority receive little or even no wages. Youngsters recharging and
filling batteries averaged Tk.313 (US$ 5.30) a month while street children –
who earn by collecting old paper, street selling, shining shoes, portering or
begging - averaged just Tk.288
(US$4.85) a month. Those in the
transport sector did best, averaging Tk.1,417 (US$24) a month. Yet even these low earnings figures paint a
misleading picture of the children’s welfare. For example, while the average
monthly wages of those in auto workshops is TK. 470 (US$ 8), 40 per cent of
these children said they received no wages, just food and lodging. Help
Us Liberate The World's Slaves During my 31 years of Community
Service in India and Bangladesh, mainly involved in Community Development,
Rural Education, Leprosy Control and the support of Widows and Orphans, I was
stunned by another major problem, thought by many to no longer exist in this
21st. Century - SLAVERY - SLAVERY's MAIN VICTIMS ARE WOMEN - SPARE THEM A
KIND THOUGHT During my 31 years spent in India
and Bangladesh, particularly during two periods of famine, I saw hundreds of
people enslaved as "Bonded Labourers", most being forced to work in
such places as biri (cigarette) / carpet factories and brick kilns with females
also forced into prostitution (sexual slavery). Combating
Trafficking Of Women And Children In South Asia [PDF] [page 89]
4.5.2 ENFORCEMENT
OF LAWS AGAINST TRAFFICKING - The Government of Bangladesh itself acknowledges serious problems
in the enforcement of laws against trafficking, including the 2000 Act. In
its 1997 report to the CEDAW Committee, the Government noted that
implementation of the laws was weak, in part because members of law
enforcement were often themselves involved in trafficking activities, and
that the laws were sometimes misapplied with the result that victims were
charged with immoral behavior and put in jail. In general, the Government noted
that the judicial system is difficult for women to access, since court
proceedings are lengthy and court officials are often hostile or
unsympathetic to them. The Government acknowledged that law enforcement
authorities and the judiciary need to be better sensitized, and that the
repatriation of Bangladeshi women who have been trafficked to other countries
also needs to be facilitated. Child
Traffickers Prey on Bangladesh Nuru Miah's hands show the hazards
of his vocation: a small scar on the back of his right palm marks where a
camel once sunk its teeth. Nuru, now
around 10, spent two years as a camel jockey in the Dubai desert. How his parents were persuaded to send him
to the Persian Gulf is unclear, though promises of a better life, perhaps a
little money, are the conventional sales pitches. What is known is that he
was sent from his home, a village south of here, when he was about 7. Once he arrived in Dubai, his
meals were rationed to make sure he did not gain much weight. He was whipped
when he was disagreeable. Still, he was luckier than many of his peers. Other
little boys with whom he worked, he recalled, tumbled from the camels and
broke their bones. Nuru, the son of
landless peasants, is among an untold number of children who are taken out of
this country each year by traffickers. Some are kidnapped, others are sold. Choosing
Death by Fire Over Marriage - Forced Marriages Are Driving Some Women to
Self-Immolation The abduction came as a complete
surprise to Miah, a London-based community youth activist who had been dating
Shipa for several years. Shipa's
family had earlier accepted a marriage proposal put forth in the
"correct way" by Miah's family, and the young Briton was unaware
that her parents had no intention of actually allowing their daughter to
marry a man of her choice. On the morning of Oct. 12, 1995,
Shipa was whisked to a cousin's place near Heathrow Airport, then flown to
Bangladesh. She was not informed about her family's plans for her future
until just a few hours before boarding the plane. Factbook
on Global Sexual Exploitation - Bangladesh TRAFFICKING - Police estimate more than
15,000 women and children are smuggled out of Bangladesh every year. All material used herein
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