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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Burundi.htm
Burundi is a source
country for children trafficked for the purposes of child soldiering,
domestic servitude, and commercial sexual exploitation. Human trafficking of
Burundian adults and children with albinism to Tanzania for the forcible
removal of body parts may occur; so-called Tanzanian traditional healers seek
various body parts of persons with albinism for traditional medical
concoctions commonly purchased to heal illness, foster economic advancement,
or hurt enemies. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Burundian's ordeal in Lebanon BBC News, 27 June 2007 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6241214.stm [accessed 25 January 2011] First of all they
refused to pay me the amount we had agreed before I left. When we arrived home, my boss told me I
would be paid $50 a month whilst before I left we agreed I would be paid
$100. After three months, I asked for
my payments so that I could send money to my brothers and sisters. My boss gave me only $150. I complained I
should be given $300. She said I was being paid $50 a month. We went through
lots of ordeals. The husband or son of
the lady I worked for would often rape me. And there was no way you could
complain: I felt they would not hesitate to kill me. You just kept quiet. We were often beaten
and tortured. They chose food for us, they would decide the clothes that we
would put on, but being beaten was the most common practice. There was little difference between
prostitution and working as a maid because even when you chose house work,
you would often be raped there. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/burundi.htm [accessed 25 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Rebel forces continue to force or abduct children to
serve as child soldiers or perform related activities. Child soldiers from Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61557.htm [accessed 25 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The Ministry for National Solidarity, Human Rights, and Gender was
responsible for combating trafficking. During the year The government
supported public awareness campaigns and programs to prevent trafficking and
continued to demobilize and provide assistance to former child soldiers from
the FDN, GP, and six former rebel groups. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6
October 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/burundi2000.html [accessed 25 January 2011] [71] The Committee
is concerned about the participation of children in the State party's armed
forces, either as soldiers, or as helpers in camps or in the obtaining of
information. The Committee is also concerned about reports of widespread
recruitment of children by opposition armed forces. The Committee is further
concerned at reports of sexual exploitation of children by members of the
armed forces. The Committee is deeply concerned about violations of the
provisions of international humanitarian law relating to the treatment of
civilians in armed conflict. Diverse Human Trafficking Trends in East
African Region Highlights Urgent Need for Greater Protection International Organization for Migration
IOM, 12-10-2010 www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/media/press-briefing-notes/pbnAF/cache/offonce/lang/en?entryId=28484 [accessed 25 January 2011] In Adult victims were
identified in the domestic sector, as well as the mining, agricultural and
hospitality industries. Migration body to monitor human trafficking
impact [access information unavailable] "Many girls
are taken from Iringa and brought to major cities to work as housegirls but
they end up being subjected to prostitution and other works which they did
not expect, this is internal trafficking," she said. Many young boys,
she said, are taken to work in the mining companies, something which not only
denies their rights but also are psychosocially affected. The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/burundi.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Women and girls
are trafficked to European cities and to Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/burundi [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide [accessed 25 January 2011] Child Soldier Use 2003 - A Briefing for the
4th UN Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict Coalition to Stop the Use of Child
Soldiers, January 2004 www.hrw.org/reports/2004/childsoldiers0104/4.htm [accessed 25 January 2011] GOVERNMENT FORCES - The government
of NON-STATE ARMED
GROUPS
- Child recruitment by armed opposition groups escalated during the year
because of increased instability brought about by the change in government. The main
Hutu-dominated armed political group, the CNDD-FDD (Nkurunziza faction),
which has rear bases in eastern DRC, reportedly continued to recruit and
abduct children, including from schools and from refugee camps in
neighbouring Burundian's ordeal in Lebanon BBC News, 27 June 2007 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6241214.stm [accessed 25 January 2011] First of all they
refused to pay me the amount we had agreed before I left. When we arrived home, my boss told me I
would be paid $50 a month whilst before I left we agreed I would be paid
$100. After three months, I asked for
my payments so that I could send money to my brothers and sisters. My boss gave me only $150. I complained I
should be given $300. She said I was being paid $50 a month. We went through lots
of ordeals. The husband or son of the
lady I worked for would often rape me. And there was no way you could
complain: I felt they would not hesitate to kill me. You just kept quiet. We were often beaten
and tortured. They chose food for us, they would decide the clothes that we
would put on, but being beaten was the most common practice. There was little difference between
prostitution and working as a maid because even when you chose house work,
you would often be raped there. Travel advice by country - Country
Profiles: Burundi Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 15 July
2008 [accessed 25 January 2011] [scroll down] HUMAN RIGHTS - The human rights
situation in History of Gascoigne, Bamber. “History of www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad25 [accessed 25 January 2011] The immediate
effect of the attempted coup is the flight abroad of Mwambutsa, leaving his
18-year-old younger son in A republic is
proclaimed, and it is one in which the Tutsi are now unmistakably in power.
The subsequent decades reveal that it is a power which they wield with
ruthless brutality. The worst blot on All material
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