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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Bolivia.htm
Bolivia is principally a source country for men, women, and
children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and
forced labor. A large number of Bolivians are trafficked to Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Peru, Spain, and the United States for forced labor in
sweatshops, factories, and agriculture. In a case discovered in May 2008,
more than 200 Bolivian workers were trafficked to Russia for forced labor in
the construction industry. Within the country, young Bolivian women and girls
are trafficked from rural to urban areas for commercial sexual exploitation.
Members of indigenous communities are particularly at risk of forced labor
within the country, especially on ranches, sugar cane, and Brazilian nut
plantations. Bolivian children are trafficked internally for forced labor in
mining, agriculture, and as domestic servants.. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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ARTICLES *** Bolivia, U.S. cracking down on human trafficking Donna Boe, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] According to Rodriquez, two major
forms of human trafficking exist in Bolivia. Because people are desperate for
jobs, they flock to Argentina, Brazil, Spain and North America where some
find jobs, and others end up as indentured servants or worse. There is also a
tragic problem of disappearance of children, and the government is
establishing ways to locate these children and to find out what happened to
them. Trafficked in China, originally from Bolivia Oliver Poole. “Young Mother’s Dream of Fast Fortune Ended
in Nightmare” South China Morning Post (11 March 1997) jammedtruestories.blogspot.com/2008/09/trafficked-in-china-originally-from.html [accessed 23 January 2011] TESTIMONY OF PATRICIA - From her home in an
impoverished village in rural ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/bolivia.htm [accessed 23 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Some children are known to work as indentured domestic laborers and
prostitutes. Children are reportedly
trafficked internally to urban or border areas for commercial sexual exploitation. It is also reported that children and
adolescents are trafficked internally within Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61717.htm [accessed 23 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Faced
with extreme poverty, many citizens were economic migrants, and some were
victimized by traffickers as they moved from rural areas to cities and then
abroad. Women and children, particularly from indigenous ethnic groups in the
Altiplano region, were at greater risk of being
trafficked. Children were trafficked within the country to work in
prostitution, mines, domestic servitude, and agriculture, particularly
harvesting sugar cane and Brazil nuts. Weak controls along its extensive five
borders made the country an easy transit point for illegal migrants, some of
whom may have been trafficked. Commercial sexual exploitation of children
also remained a problem. While there were reports that some
adolescents were sold into forced labor, it appeared that most victims
initially were willing economic migrants who were duped or later coerced into
accepting jobs that turned out to be forced labor. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 28 January 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/bolivia2005.html [accessed 23 January 2011] [63]. The Committee is concerned
about the extent of sexual exploitation and trafficking of children for this
or other purposes, in particular economic exploitation, in the State party
and about the lack of effective programs to address this problem. Associated Press AP, www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394126/posts [accessed 23 January 2011] At least 1,700 women from Latin
America and the Caribbean are lured each year into sexual slavery in Donna Boe, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] According to Rodriquez, two major
forms of human trafficking exist in Bolivia. Because people are desperate for
jobs, they flock to Argentina, Brazil, Spain and North America where some
find jobs, and others end up as indentured servants or worse. There is also a
tragic problem of disappearance of children, and the government is establishing
ways to locate these children and to find out what happened to them. Trafficked in China, originally from Bolivia Oliver Poole. “Young Mother’s Dream of Fast Fortune Ended
in Nightmare” South China Morning Post (11 March 1997) jammedtruestories.blogspot.com/2008/09/trafficked-in-china-originally-from.html [accessed 23 January 2011] TESTIMONY OF PATRICIA - From her home in an impoverished
village in rural www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2006/June/200606051529441xeneerg0.8676874.html [accessed 23 January 2011] HUMAN TRAFFICKING “TIER 2 WATCH
LIST” - Even though
Bolivia moved up from its Tier 3 listing in the 2005 report, the country was
placed on the Tier 2 watch list for its failure to show evidence of
increasing efforts to combat trafficking in the areas of trafficking
prosecutions and victim protection. Human trafficking's dirty
profits and huge costs Inter-American Development Bank, Nov 2, 2006 www.iadb.org/news/detail.cfm?language=English&ARTID=3357&id=3357 [accessed 23 January 2011] CASES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE
CARIBBEAN - In Annual Report Of Activities By The Anti-Trafficking In
Persons Section Of The Organization Of American States - April 2005 To March
2006 [DOC] Organization of American States, Inter-American Commission
of Women, 27 March 2006 www.procuraduria.gov.do/PGR.NET/RemjaVI/Informes/Ingles.doc [accessed 23 January 2011] Between October 17 and 21, a series
of seminars, focusing on different topics, were held in the cities of
Trinidad, La Paz, and Cochabamba. La Paz hosted a
seminar on “Training for Journalists from the Bolivian Media in Trafficking
in Persons: Reporting and Spreading the News while Upholding Victims’
Rights,” at which communicators, journalists, and owners of media outlets
(written press, radio, and television) involved with the topic or who had
produced important work relating to it, were given training relating to
trafficking in human lives. In Due to Efforts against Trafficking in Persons U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, June 16, 2009 bolivia.usembassy.gov/traffpb.html [access date unavailable] Over the past year, despite
limited resources, Also, Bolivia made efforts to
prevent this crime by means of awareness seminars held throughout the country
and increased protection services for the victims. The Grounds for Bolivia’s New Military Bases Alex Sánchez, Research Fellow,
Council on Hemispheric Affairs COHA, 18 Oct 2006 www.coha.org/the-grounds-for-bolivia%E2%80%99s-new-military-bases/ [accessed 23 January 2011] The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/bolivia.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Women and children are
trafficked from Women and children are trafficked
to Argentina, Brazil, and Chile to work as domestic servants. Some women are
trafficked from Bolivia to Argentina, where they are forced to work in
textile factories, or to northern Chile, where they are made to work in
agriculture. Women are trafficked from
Bolivia to Brazil to work in textile factories, in homes, in the agricultural
sector, and in factories. Bolivian
women have been trafficked to Spain with promises of work, but instead they
have been forced into prostitution.
Bolivian children are reportedly trafficked to Spain for illegal
adoption. In July 2000, Bolivian nationals
trafficked 24 Bolivian girls to Argentina for the purpose of prostitution.
The recruiter (the mother of the brothel owner) recruited children from
outdoor markets in the rural areas of Bolivia. She told them and their
parents that the girls could work as criaditas, or
little maids, in Argentina. The parents authorized the children to leave
under the pretense that they were going on vacation, so that they could get
tourist visas. Tickets and visas were purchased through a travel agency. The
recruiter; the brothel owner’s husband, who had transported the children; the
owner of the travel agency; and the brothel owner were charged with forcing
minors into prostitution. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 3 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7570 [accessed 23 January 2011] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 23 January 2011] Library of Congress Call Number F3308 .B685 1991 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/botoc.html [accessed 23 January 2011] All material used herein
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