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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Kazakhstan [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] Kazakhstan is a source, transit, and destination country for
men and women from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Ukraine trafficked
to Russia and the U.A.E. for purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual
exploitation. Kazakhstani men and women are trafficked internally and to the
U.A.E., Turkey, Israel, Greece, Russia, and Germany for purposes of sexual
exploitation and forced labor. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2007 [full country report] |
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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs 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. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 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) - 2003 [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 Russia on Human Trafficking 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 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 Kazakhstan).Local
authorities plan to hold actions with the help of mass media in order to
raise public awareness, arrange seminars and so on. They also intend to strengthen
control over illegal migration of foreign citizens to the region, check
activity of employment agencies and organizations rendering services to the
population on preparation of documents of Kazakhstan’s citizens leaving
abroad. Kazak Women
Sold as Sex Slaves When teenagers Lyuda and Sveta
were offered work in Kazakhstan
Ups Efforts To Combat Human Trafficking 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. Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide Stop
Violence Against Women – Country Page U.S. Library of Congress
- Country Study ARCHIVES 2005 Forced Labor In The Russian Federation [PDF] 2004 2004 2004 Corrupt
officials limiting effectiveness of Kazakhstan’s efforts to combat human
trafficking 2003 After drugs & weapons, human
trafficking is the third most profitable crime in 2003 Law enforcement agencies draw up a series
of measures for fighting human trafficking 2003 2003 Rated Tier 3 because of diminished response to human
trafficking issue previous year |
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