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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the first ten years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2009
Chad is a source, transit, and destination country for
children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation.
Most trafficked children are subjected to domestic servitude, forced begging,
forced labor in cattle herding, fishing, and street vending, and for
commercial sexual exploitation. A 2005 UNICEF study on child domestic
workers, including those in domestic servitude, in Ndjamena
found that 62 percent were boys. Young girls sold or forced into marriage are
forced by their husbands into domestic servitude and agricultural labor.
Chadian children are also trafficked to Cameroon, the Central African Republic,
and Nigeria for cattle herding. Children may also be trafficked from Cameroon
and the Central African Republic to Chad’s oil producing regions for sexual
exploitation. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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Project - Chad [DOC] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Children from Chadian children trafficked to the
Children are trafficked internally
within the country. One farmer in the south of Young girls known as tallanis, who sell foodstuffs on city streets, are
sometimes kidnapped for occult practices or sexual exploitation or both.
Also, poor families from rural areas send their children to live with
relatives or friends in the city so that the children may be educated. Often
the girls are financially or sexually exploited. Girls are also brought from
the countryside to work in drinking establishments, where clients sexually
exploited them. ***
ARCHIVES *** U.S. Dept
of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - There are reports of child trafficking in Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Several human rights
organizations reported on the problem of the mahadjir
children who attended certain Islamic schools and were forced by their
teachers to beg for food and money. There was no reliable estimate of the
number of mahadjir children. During the year the
High Islamic Council held a public meeting with imams from around the country
to discuss the treatment of children under Islam. TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Although
the law prohibits trafficking in persons, persons were trafficked within the
country. Children were trafficked for forced labor, primarily as herders or
domestic workers (see section 6.d.). A 2004 NGO survey of 500 child herders
who had been returned to their parents indicated that there may have been
between 1,500 and 2 thousand children between 6 and 17 years of age who had
been trafficked as child herders. Local authorities, religious groups, and
NGOs rescued 256 children in 2004-05. The government arrested
traffickers during the year. In May a citizen was arrested in SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
There were cases in some southern regions in which families sold their
children. In some areas local authorities fined
parents caught selling their children into forced labor. To avoid detection,
some families worked with intermediaries to pass children from families to
the farm owners. During the year there were reports
that in the southern part of the country families contracted out their
children to Arab nomadic herders to help care for their animals, and the
children often were abused and returned with little financial compensation
for their work. There were also credible reports
that children were forced into slavery. According to a 2004 UN news service
report, aid workers in the country estimated that families have sold as many
as two thousand children--some as young as eight--into a system of slavery in
which they worked as child cattle herders. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 1999 [35] While taking note of the
existing awareness and political will regarding the problems caused by the
involvement of children in armed conflict, the Committee remains seriously
concerned about the lack of resources available to support the rehabilitation
and social reintegration of demobilized child soldiers. The Committee is
particularly concerned about the situation of traumatized or permanently
disabled former child soldiers and their lack of access to compensation or
other support services. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure
the enforcement of its legislation banning the recruitment of children under 18 years. It also encourages the redoubling of
efforts to allocate the necessary resources, if necessary with international
assistance, to the rehabilitation and social reintegration of former child
soldiers, and in particular to provide compensation and support services to
traumatized or permanently disabled former child soldiers UN expert
urges France, Chad to probe children case Some members of the French NGO,
named Arche de Zoe, were
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Six members of the group -
arrested on 25 October - have been charged with abducting minors for the
purpose of changing their civil status (giving them new parents), a crime
that carries a penalty of five to 20 years of forced labour. Although the information has not
yet been verified, there is speculation in this case that the children were
willingly handed over, in which case abduction would be difficult to prove, Ndiaye said.
Trafficking legislation usually encompasses the illegal recruitment of
children from "vulnerable" parents, who may agree to give up their
children because they cannot care for them, he said. A conviction in child trafficking also
allows authorities to seize any assets used in the commission of the crime, Ndiaye said, which can deter future incidences. Protection
Project - Chad [DOC] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Children from Chadian children trafficked to the
Children are trafficked internally
within the country. One farmer in the south of Young girls known as tallanis, who sell foodstuffs on city streets, are
sometimes kidnapped for occult practices or sexual exploitation or both.
Also, poor families from rural areas send their children to live with
relatives or friends in the city so that the children may be educated. Often
the girls are financially or sexually exploited. Girls are also brought from
the countryside to work in drinking establishments, where clients sexually
exploited them. Freedom
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Liberties: 6 Status: Not
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