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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early
years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Fiji.htm
Fiji is a source country for children trafficked for the
purposes of labor and commercial sexual exploitation, and a destination
country for women from the People’s Republic of China, Thailand and India
trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. Some women
from the P.R.C. and India who migrate voluntarily to Fiji for work have been
in the past and may still be coerced into forced labor in sweatshops. Fijian
boys and girls are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation by family
members, other Fijian citizens, foreign tourists, and sailors on foreign
fishing vessels. Staff at local hotels procure
underage girls for commercial sexual exploitation by guests, while taxi
drivers, nightclub staff, and relatives frequently act as facilitators. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full
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culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Fiji. Some of these links may lead to websites
that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false. No
attempt has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** The Protection Project - The
www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/fiji.doc [Last accessed
2009] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE – FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - The report also warned that the sale of children in
Fiji could become a problem if loopholes in the adoption law were not
amended. Although baby and child trafficking from Fiji appeared to be rare,
the potential existed for such trafficking to increase. There have been a
number of cases of older children being taken from their parents to live in
Australia and New Zealand. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2005 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2005/tda2005.pdf [accessed
10 November 2010] CHILD LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - The worst forms of child labor
may be prosecuted under different statutes in Human Rights Reports » 2006
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78773.htm [accessed
5 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – A
November 2005 law prohibits trafficking in persons, and there were no
substantiated reports of trafficking to or from the country during the year.
There were some reports of children trafficked within the country during the
year. Many observers cited poverty as the primary underlying reason for
sexual exploitation of children. The antitrafficking
law provides for penalties of up to 20 years' imprisonment and fines up to
$442,000 (F$750,000) for convicted traffickers. The government did not sponsor or provide
assistance to any programs specifically to combat or prevent trafficking in
persons. Human trade victims spared
Margaret
Wise, www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=156837 [accessed
5 February 2011] Victims of human trafficking can
rest assured that the Director of Public Prosecution will not pursue cases
against them. Instead the DPP will
use all its powers against human trafficking facilitators. The office of the DPP is committed
to entering a nolle prosequi
against the victims of human trafficking who have been mistakenly charged for
unlawful possession of travel documents or similar offences." The Trip to Trong & Rani
tronie.myfundrazor.org/tronie-foundation/2006/10/trip-to-fiji.html [Last access date unavailable] Last June a team of builders from
the The Protection Project - The
www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/fiji.doc [Last accessed
2009] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE – FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - The report also warned that the sale of children in
Fiji could become a problem if loopholes in the adoption law were not
amended. Although baby and child trafficking from Fiji appeared to be rare,
the potential existed for such trafficking to increase. There have been a
number of cases of older children being taken from their parents to live in
Australia and New Zealand. 3rd Meeting of the CSCAP Study Group on Human Trafficking Discovery Suites, Pasig City, The Philippines 8-9 July 2006 [PDF] Dr
Kate McMillan, [accessed
5 February 2011] EXPERT PRESENTATIONS - A second presentation was given
by Sean Evans, Law Enforcement Adviser from the Pacific Island Forum
Secretariat. He began by reporting that Niue is the
only Pacific Island country within the Forum to have ratified the Protocols
to the UN Convention on Transnational Crime. However, the Pacific Islands
Forum has also done a lot of work in developing model legislation, and a
number of countries have anti-trafficking legislation before their
parliaments. Evans illustrated the types of trafficking issues that are being
seen in the Pacific by reference to cases of deceptive recruiting from China
into Palau, of Thai women being forced into prostitution in Fiji, and women being forced into
work at sweatshops in U.S. Samoa and Fiji. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free 2009
Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7607 [accessed
5 February 2011] All material used herein
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