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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Kazakhstan.htm
Kazakhstan is a source, transit,
and destination country for men, women, and children from Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan trafficked to Russia and the UAE for the purposes
of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor in the construction and
agricultural industries. Women from Kazakhstan are trafficked to China and
Turkey for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Kazakhstan is a
destination country for a significant number of Uzbek men, women, and girls
trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced
labor, including domestic servitude and forced labor in the tobacco, cotton,
and meat processing industries. Men, women, and children are trafficked
internally for the purposes of forced labor and forced prostitution. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Kazak Women Sold as Sex Slaves Gaziza Baituova,
Institute for War & Peace Reporting IWPR correspondent in Taraz - The Women’s Reporting & Dialogue Programme, WPR Issue 2, 17 Nov 05 iwpr.net/report-news/kazak-women-sold-sex-slaves [accessed 16 February 2011] When teenagers Lyuda
and Sveta were offered work in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/kazakhstan.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Reports also indicate a rise in the number of children engaged in
commercial sexual exploitation, pornography and drug trafficking in urban
areas. Children working as domestic servants are often invisible and,
for this reason, also vulnerable to exploitation. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61656.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS –
Traffickers targeted young women in their teens and 20s for sexual
exploitation. According to NGOs, most women were recruited with promises of
good jobs or marriage abroad. Travel, employment, and marriage agencies often
recruited victims through advertisements promising lucrative jobs abroad.
Offers to participate in international beauty contests also were used.
Previously trafficked women reportedly recruited new victims personally. Many
trafficking victims appeared to be aware or at least to suspect that they
were going to work as prostitutes, but did not expect to work in slave‑like
conditions. Most trafficked persons traveled to their destinations on forged
passports obtained abroad, most often from Adolescents raised in orphanages,
regardless of gender, and residents of rural and economically disadvantaged
areas were particularly vulnerable to being trafficked. The country's relative
prosperity otherwise served as a factor against citizens being trafficked
through seeking employment abroad. During the year an orphanage director in
the southern part of the country was caught attempting to traffic teenage
girls to the UAE. The highly publicized case remained ongoing at year's end. Men and women were trafficked to
the country for labor exploitation; some evidence also suggested children
were trafficked from Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 June 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/kazakhstan2003.html [accessed 16 February 2011] [45] The Committee notes the
existence of the National Board on Adoption and of regulations for organizations
involved in domestic and inter-country adoption. However, taking into account the very large
number of abandoned children, the Committee is concerned at the lack of a
comprehensive policy regarding domestic and inter-country adoption, including
effective monitoring and follow-up of adoptions. [72] The Committee is concerned
at: (a) The growing involvement of
children in the sex industry and the apparent indifference of society towards
the issue of child prostitution, including reports of parents themselves
reportedly forcing their children to earn money through prostitution; (b) The lack of specialized centres to accommodate and provide qualified services,
including psychotherapeutic and rehabilitation and reintegration programmes, for child victims of sexual violence. EU Presses Vladimir Kovalev, February 23,
2007 – Source: Transitions Online—Intelligent www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/feb2007/gb20070223_311905_page_2.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] Like many struggling young people
in the former Soviet republics, 17-year-old Maryam
dreamed of a better life. She thought she was on her way to one when she
decided to leave her native Kazakhstan to work as a shop assistant in Russia.
Maryam said she was lured into the trap
by a man named Dastan, who paid her parents $300,
gave her a false passport, and accompanied her to Samara, a central Russian
city with a population of 1.3 million people. Her story is among those
included in a report by the Geneva-based International Labor Organization
(ILO) on human trafficking, released at the end of 2005. Atyrau authorities plan to prevent human
trafficking Andrey Sokolov,
Kazinform National Information Agency, July 14,
2006 www.kazinform.kz/eng/article/2143365 [accessed 16 February 2011] Presentation of plan of measures
on struggle and prevention of crimes connected with human trafficking for
2006-2008 took place in the Atyrau oblast (a region
of Kazak Women Sold as Sex Slaves Gaziza Baituova,
Institute for War & Peace Reporting IWPR correspondent in Taraz - The Women’s Reporting & Dialogue Programme, WPR Issue 2, 17 Nov 05 iwpr.net/report-news/kazak-women-sold-sex-slaves [accessed 16 February 2011] When teenagers Lyuda
and Sveta were offered work in Hellenic Resources Institute HR-Net, January 14, 2005 www.hri.org/news/balkans/rferl/2005/05-01-14.rferl.html#20 [accessed 16 February 2011] 12 criminal cases were opened
under the Criminal Code's "human trafficking" statute in 2004, twice
as many as in 2003, and five channels for trafficking Kazakh citizens abroad
for sexual and other exploitation were identified and blocked in 2004. The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/kazakhstan.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000
victims are trafficked annually from Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7635 [accessed 16 February 2011] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/kazakhstan [accessed 16 February 2011] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, July 21, 2010 [accessed 16 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DK851 .K34 1997 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/kztoc.html [accessed 16 February 2011] Forced Labour In The Elena Tyuryukanova, International
Labour Office, ILO, ISBN 92-2-117840-4 (print), ISBN 92-2-117841-2 (web pdf) www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---declaration/documents/publication/wcms_081997.pdf [accessed 16 February 2011] [page 107]
APPENDIX I - INTERVIEWS WITH VICTIMS OF FORCED LABOUR [page 108]
CASE 2 - A 16-year old
girl from [page 110]
CASE 3 - An 18-year old
woman from News Bulletin of the Embassy of the At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 7 September 2011] [3rd article]
Corruption is Limiting Kazakhstan’s Efforts Against Human
Trafficking Radio Free Europe/Radio [accessed 7 September 2011] Michael Chance, the head of the
International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Voice of Democracy iicas.org/libr_en/vd/libr_14_08_03_kp_0.htm [Last access date unavailable] NOW SHOW YOU MEAN IT - In the face of criticism from a
number of international human rights groups, President Nazarbayev
has signed legislation tightening prohibitions on trafficking in human
beings, Interfax-Kazakhstan reported. Government
officials say the problem has become acute, with Kazakh citizens falling into
the hands of traffickers when they abroad in search of work, and the country
itself has been a transit route for trafficked persons. After drugs and
weapons, human trafficking is the third most profitable crime in Kazakhstan,
according to Khabar.Kazakhstan. At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 7 September 2011] Dospolov said that the State Department
assertion was based partly on the fact that no sentences were handed down in
2002 for crimes related to human trafficking, but he argued that such crimes
can be difficult to investigate because the victims are sent abroad. News Bulletin of the Embassy of the At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 7 September 2011] The White House has notified the
U.S. Congress that US Human Trafficking Report Faults Georgia, EurasiaNet.org, August 20, 2003 www.eurasianet.org/departments/civilsociety/articles/eav082103.shtml [[accessed 16 February 2011] All material used herein
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