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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Botwwana.htm
Botswana is a source, transit, and, to a lesser extent,
destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purpose
of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Children are trafficked internally
for domestic servitude and cattle herding, while women report being forced
into commercial sexual exploitation at safari lodges. Botswana is a staging
area for both the smuggling and trafficking of third-country nationals,
primarily from Namibia and Zimbabwe, to South Africa. Zimbabweans are also
trafficked into Botswana for forced labor as domestic servants. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false. No
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** 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] 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 ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2006 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/tda/tda2006/botswana.pdf [accessed 23 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children in Human Rights Reports » 2008
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/118987.htm [accessed 23 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The law
does not prohibit trafficking in persons, although penal code provisions
cover related offenses such as abduction and kidnapping, slave trafficking,
and procuring women and girls for the purpose of prostitution. One suspected
trafficking case was prosecuted during the year on false documentation
charges, although anecdotal evidence suggested that additional trafficking
cases may have occurred and gone undetected. There were unconfirmed reports
that women and children from eastern Africa were trafficked through the
country to The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/botswana.doc [Last accessed 2009] Trafficking Routes and Forms of
Trafficking - More specifically, porous borders,
combined with recurrent civil and political unrest and a lack of economic
opportunity, have ensured a consistent southward flow of both legal and
illegal migrants in southern Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 2 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7572 [accessed 23 January 2011] 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] 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 Human trafficking ring smashed in Botswana Press TV, Apr 19, 2009 edition.presstv.ir/detail/91932.html [accessed 23 January 2011] The Reducing Exploitive Child Labour in www.reclisa.org/content/index.cfm?navID=2&itemID=14 [Last access date unavailable] The ILO estimates that in 2000
there were 30,000 economically active children in Child labour persists in Botswana
mainly because of limited public awareness and research concerning children's
participation in exploitive labour; Inadequate harmonization and definitions
and laws protecting core labour standards, including those pertaining to
exploitive child labour, and limited capacity to enforce existing laws; poor
school transportation, infrastructure, and material conditions in rural
areas; and lack of vocational primary and secondary educational opportunities
for street children, abandoned children, child-headed households, pregnant
girls or teenage mothers, children of migrant workers, HIV/AIDS orphans, and older
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