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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/France.htm
France is a destination country for
women and girls trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation from
Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, and Malaysia and
other Asian countries. Men, women and children continued to be trafficked for
the purposes of forced labor, including domestic servitude, many from Africa.
Often their “employers” are diplomats who enjoy diplomatic immunity. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Romanian Premier Interviewed in 'Le Monde' Radio Free Europe/Radio www.hri.org/news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-08-05.rferl.html#69 [accessed 5 February 2011] [69] ROMANIAN PREMIER INTERVIEWED
IN 'LE MONDE' - Prime
Minister Adrian Nastase said in an interview to the
French daily "Le Monde" on 2 August that Romania finds itself in an
"extremely delicate and difficult situation" as a result of the
Romany criminal networks allegedly engaging in human trafficking and forcing
handicapped children into begging in France. UN expert urges France, Xinhua News Agency, [accessed 5 February 2011] Some members of the French NGO,
named Arche de Zoe, were
arrested in ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61648.htm [accessed 5 February 2011] CHILDREN
- In October
authorities arrested 15 persons and rescued 7 babies in connection with the
baby trafficking ring discovered in 2004, and five persons were arrested. A
Roma family in TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – In 2003
police arrested 67 adults in a Roma encampment outside Paris and charged them
with organizing sexual enslavement of Roma children who were kidnapped from
Romania, brought to the country, raped to make them obey, and sent out on the
streets of Paris and its suburbs to steal and prostitute themselves.
According to press reports, the children were forced to earn $240 (200 euros)
a day or face severe physical punishment. The child‑traffickers
remained in jail awaiting trial at the end of the year. Police estimated that 90 percent
of the 15 thousand to 18 thousand female prostitutes working in the country
were trafficking victims, and that 3 thousand to 8 thousand children were
forced into prostitution and labor, including begging. Traffickers used various methods
to recruit and retain victims including force, fraud, confiscating the
victim's identification papers, isolating him or her culturally, and abusing
him or her physically or psychologically. Some victims came to the country
willing to work as prostitutes, not knowing they were going to become
trafficking victims. Traffickers kidnapped or "bought" some women
and girls and sold them to Balkans-based prostitution networks, which smuggled
the victims into the country. NGOs and police characterized the bulk of
traffickers in the country as "micro-trafficking networks" that
included both citizens and foreigners. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 30 June 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/france2004.html [accessed 5 February 2011] [52] The Committee welcomes the legislative
and other efforts aimed at providing protection of children from economic
exploitation. However, the Committee is concerned that illegal networks of
forced labor continue to operate and that foreign children fall victims to
networks that are not countered vigorously enough. [54] The Committee notes that,
following the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children in Conference puts focus on human trafficking, fastest
growing criminal industry United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - UNHCR, [accessed 5 February 2011] Government officials, judiciary
members, police officers and humanitarian aid workers have expressed concern,
during a conference in northern The UN refugee agency, which
co-organized last Thursday's gathering in "We are particularly worried
about the unaccompanied children who find themselves in this situation and
who are particularly vulnerable to exploitation. It is very difficult to keep
track of them and we don't know what happens to them once they leave UN expert urges France, Xinhua News Agency, [accessed 5 February 2011] Some members of the French NGO,
named Arche de Zoe, were
arrested in Police arrest ten Bulgarians for human trafficking to
France Agence France-Presse
AFP, April 20 2007 www.asser.nl/default.aspx?site_id=8&level1=10790&level2=10850&level3=&textid=29558 [accessed 31 August 2011] Ten Bulgarians involved in
trafficking women to Between 2002 and 2005, the group
transferred at least 105 Bulgarian girls to France and forced them to work as
prostitutes, Ivanova said. Bulgaria, France Crash Human Trafficking Channel FACE2FACE At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 5 September 2011] A channel for traffic in people to
Police in Bulgaria's Russe and French Marseille acted in close cooperation in
crushing the channel. Six people were questioned in the Bulgarian city and 5
homes were searched. A total of 20 cell phones, many personal belongings as
well as bank transfers documents were confiscated during the search. 65 convicted in French child abuse trial Jon Henley in www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jul/28/france.jonhenley [accessed 5 February 2011] Key figures in the largest child
abuse trial ever held in Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7609 [accessed 5 February 2011] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/france [accessed 5 February 2011] Domestic slavery: servitude, au pairs and mail-order
brides - Report Rapporteur: Mr
Giuseppe Gaburro, Italy, Group of the European
People’s Party, Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men, Doc.
10144, 19 April 2004 assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/doc04/EDOC10144.htm [accessed 5 February 2011] B. DOMESTIC SLAVERY AND SERVITUDE 11. In France alone, the CCEM has
taken up the cases of over 400 victims of domestic slavery since its creation
in 1994. RIGHTS OF THE CHILD - Report submitted by Juan Miguel
Petit, Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography - Addendum - Mission to France, 25-29 November 2002 [PDF] UN Economic and Social Council, E/CN.4/2004/9/Add.1, 14
October 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/cbba1e5f4208f627c1256df7002f3b5a/$FILE/G0316328.pdf [accessed 5 February 2011] SUMMARY - The report focuses on the sale
of children in the context of trafficking of children and child prostitution,
and on child pornography and its links with domestic child sexual abuse. Concerning the sale of children,
trafficking and child prostitution, the report relates information presented
to the Special Rapporteur by the Children’s Ombudsman (Défenseure
des enfants), the police, NGOs, as well as
government ministries. According to
this information, children are being trafficked into France primarily from
Eastern Europe, notably Romania, and from West Africa, but also from
Asia including such countries as India and China. Many, if not most, of these children are
under the control of trafficking networks and are forced into
prostitution. The Government of France
is starting to work with the authorities of the countries concerned, in
particular with Romania with which it signed a bilateral agreement in 2001
with respect to returning children. V.
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 73. Children are entering or travelling
through France for the purposes of theft, begging and prostitution. Many of them are trafficked by force while
others travel of their own volition - some later becoming caught up in
trafficking networks. The majority of
these children come from Eastern Europe - notably Romania - and from West
Africa. Romanian Premier Interviewed in 'Le Monde' Radio Free Europe/Radio www.hri.org/news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-08-05.rferl.html#69 [accessed 5 February 2011] [69] ROMANIAN PREMIER INTERVIEWED
IN 'LE MONDE' - Prime
Minister Adrian Nastase said in an interview to the
French daily "Le Monde" on 2 August that Romania finds itself in an
"extremely delicate and difficult situation" as a result of the
Romany criminal networks allegedly engaging in human trafficking and forcing
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