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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Chile.htm
Chile is a source, transit, and destination country for
men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual
exploitation and labor trafficking. Within the country, many victims are
Chilean women and girls who respond to false job offers and subsequently are
subjected to forced prostitution. Chilean women and girls also are trafficked
for involuntary prostitution and labor exploitation to neighboring countries
such as Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia, as well as Western Europe. Foreign
women from Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and Paraguay, in addition to
Asian countries such as China, are lured to Chile with fraudulent job offers
and subsequently coerced into prostitution or domestic servitude. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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ARTICLE *** iAbolish Country Report: iabolish.org | The American Anti-Slavery Group www.iabolish.org/slavery_today/country_reports/cl.html [Last access date unavailable] COUNTRY BACKGROUND - Slavery has a legacy in THE PROCESS OF ENSLAVEMENT - Chile is a destination for
Bolivian minors who are lured into the country under false pretenses and
promises of higher wages in a country economically more stable than Bolivia.
Chile is also a country where human traffickers facilitate and promote the
movement of people from Asia to American cities, such as Los Angeles and
Houston, for the purposes of debt bondage and sexual exploitation. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/chile.htm [accessed 28 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In 2003, the Government of Chile estimated that there were
approximately 3,700 children involved in some form of commercial sexual
exploitation. Children are also
trafficked internally for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61720.htm [accessed 28 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Within
the country victims reportedly were trafficked from rural areas to such urban
areas as Anecdotal reports suggested that
young women were the primary targets for trafficking to other countries.
Traffickers reportedly used newspaper advertisements for models and product
promoters to lure girls, ages 11 to 17, into prostitution. Law enforcement
agencies indicated that traffickers looking for children also targeted
economically disadvantaged families, arguing to the parents that they were
giving the child an opportunity for a better life. Men from less-affluent
rural areas may be recruited into abusive labor situations in deep-sea
fishing or ranching operations. Concluding Observations of the
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1 February 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/chile2002.html [accessed 28 January 2011] [49] The Committee, while noting
that the State party has ratified ILO Conventions No. 138 concerning Minimum
Age for Admission to Employment and No. 182 concerning the Prohibition and
Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour and
increased the minimum age for admission to work to 15, expresses its deep
concern at the large number of children, including those under 15, who are
exploited economically, especially in the farming sector, and the large
number who have to leave school because they cannot conciliate work and
school. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7585 [accessed 28 January 2011] Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide [accessed 28 January 2011] Library of Congress Call Number F3058 .C5223 1994 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cltoc.html [accessed 28 January 2011] iAbolish Country Report: iabolish.org | The American Anti-Slavery Group www.iabolish.org/slavery_today/country_reports/cl.html [Last access date unavailable] COUNTRY BACKGROUND - Slavery has a legacy in THE PROCESS OF ENSLAVEMENT - Chile is a destination for
Bolivian minors who are lured into the country under false pretenses and
promises of higher wages in a country economically more stable than Bolivia.
Chile is also a country where human traffickers facilitate and promote the
movement of people from Asia to American cities, such as Los Angeles and
Houston, for the purposes of debt bondage and sexual exploitation. The Protection Project - Human Rights Reports of The The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/chile.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - One study reported that 50
percent of foreign women working in eastern A Chilean woman was allegedly
involved in a network that was suspected of trafficking young Chilean women
for prostitution in Japan. Known as
the “Chilean Geisha,” she made a fortune with her best-selling memoirs, her
music albums, and even a movie about her life. Corporación
La Morada, one of Chile’s leading women’s
organizations, filed a lawsuit against the “geisha” for trafficking in
persons; in June 2004, the government’s Council for the Defense of State
joined the legal action against her. Child trafficking projects in Central and South America stopchildtrafficking.org,
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