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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 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/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7578 [accessed 25 January 2011] 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.
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