Human Trafficking in [Kenya Street Children in [Kenya] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Kenya] [other countries] |
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
first ten years of the 21st Century -
2000 to 2009
Kenya is a source, transit, and
destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes
of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Kenyan children are trafficked within
the country for domestic servitude, forced labor in agriculture (including on
flower plantations), cattle herding, in bars, and for commercial sexual
exploitation, including involvement in the coastal sex tourism industry. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** A generation betrayed www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=419 At one
time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Nation Newspapers carries a story
today where the German ambassador to The ambassador states that the
practice of child trafficking and prostitution is rampant due to private
villas where these activities are carried out. Kenya currently has the
notorious reputation as a hot sex tourism destination. Most of these villas
are rented by visiting tourists. Anything can happen behind closed doors and
nothing can be done to these law breakers. At 20,000 a year, these are too
many children who fall through the cracks without the care of the government
or families. With unmonitored villas and houses, the practice continues
without interruption. ***
ARCHIVES *** U.S. Dept
of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Victims
were trafficked from South and East Asian countries and the Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2001 [59] The Committee notes with
appreciation that the State party has signed a memorandum of understanding
with ILO and that various ILO/International Program on the Elimination of Child
Labor (IPEC) programs to prevent and combat child labor are being carried
out. The Committee also welcomes the establishment of a National Steering
Committee on child labor. Nevertheless, and in the light of the current
economic situation, the increasing number of school drop-outs and the
increasing number of street children, the Committee is concerned about the
large number of children engaged in labor and the lack of information and
adequate data on the situation of child labor and economic exploitation in
the State party. The Committee notes also with concern that notwithstanding
various legal provisions there is no firm minimum age for admission to
employment and that child labor is still prevalent in the State party. Kenya: Tackling Human Trafficking Through a National Plan
of Action allafrica.com/stories/200708170834.html In addition, internal trafficking
of Kenyans is considered to be widespread, particularly from rural to urban
areas such as Nairobi and Mombasa for exploitation
in domestic labour and commercial sex. The majority
of Kenyan victims are either trafficked or introduced to their traffickers by
family members or friends, with the most common method of recruitment being
promises of good jobs or education. Once in a trafficking situation, victims
report overwork, physical and sexual abuse, non-payment or under-payment,
poor working conditions, and restricted or no access to schooling. Passport forgery to blame for trafficking Immigration Officer Mr Alfred Omangi said human
trafficking was on the increase and that the cartels were too advanced for
law enforcers. It has emerged that the
Immigration Department is not adequately equipped to detect forgeries. This,
plus the porous nature of Kenyan borders, is fuelling human trafficking. New study shames human traffickers www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143968455 At one
time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
A new report by an international
trade unions’ umbrella organisation says International Confederation of
Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) says Kenyans were also trafficked to Germany, Italy
and South Africa for domestic labour and
prostitution. Its report, ‘Trafficking in
Persons — The Eastern Africa Situation’, notes that women and children were favourite targets for well-organised
trafficking rings, which operate freely for lack of solid laws against the
vice. Dr George Gona,
an expert on trade unions at the University of Nairobi, said trafficking of
children within Kenya was also rampant.
Studies showed children were being removed from their rural homes to
urban centres to work as domestic helps and
prostitutes. Trafficking
victim tells her story Lucy Kabanya,
39, was in high spirits at the Moi International
Airport in Mombasa on July 8, last year. And she
had every reason to be, for she had just boarded a Condor Airline plane on
her way to Germany, courtesy of her German “boyfriend”. Various thoughts
flashed through her mind as the plane cut through the clouds on its way to
Frankfurt, where she was to spend a three-month holiday. But all hopes of an
exciting and wonderful stay in a foreign land were shattered on arrival in
Germany, when her host confiscated her travel documents and denied her food
for several days before informing her that she would work as a sex slave. A generation betrayed www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=419 At one
time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Nation Newspapers carries a story
today where the German ambassador to The ambassador states that the
practice of child trafficking and prostitution is rampant due to private
villas where these activities are carried out. Kenya currently has the
notorious reputation as a hot sex tourism destination. Most of these villas
are rented by visiting tourists. Anything can happen behind closed doors and
nothing can be done to these law breakers. At 20,000 a year, these are too
many children who fall through the cracks without the care of the government
or families. With unmonitored villas and houses, the practice continues
without interruption. Mombasa Hub for Human Trafficking www.propertykenya.com/news/440865-mombasa-hub-for-human-trafficking.php At one
time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
"The whole network starts
when girls leave home to come to the Coast in the guise of looking for a job,
they join prostitution - the dream of each woman is to get a white man and be
taken abroad," said Ms Akinyi. She said her organisation
was involved in rehabilitation and resettlement of women who have been
married abroad and turned into slaves. State
drafting laws to curb human trafficking www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143956960 Lack of proper laws and policies
is hampering the fight against child trafficking, Vice-President, Mr Moody Awori has said. Consequently, Awori
on Thursday said the Attorney General was drafting laws to curb trafficking
of persons. He said poverty, lack of education and high number of HIV/Aids
orphans exposed many people to human trafficking. She was a teenage orphan living on
the streets of Nairobi when a man approached her and promised her work in the
United Kingdom. He told her she would be working as a house girl. True to his word, her
"savior" brought her into the U.K. -- but instead of placing her
with a family the man took her to a brothel, where she was systematically
raped, beaten, and forced to work as a prostitute. Three months later, when the
16-year-old Kenyan girl became pregnant, she was forced to continue sleeping
with a succession of men until she was almost due to give birth. The heavily
pregnant teenager was then removed from the brothel, driven out of the town
where she had been held, and dumped many miles away on the streets of
Sheffield. Migration body to monitor human trafficking impact "Many girls are taken from Iringa and brought to major cities to work as housegirls but they end up being subjected to
prostitution and other works which they did not expect, this is internal
trafficking," she said. Many young boys, she said, are
taken to work in the mining companies, something which not only denies their
rights but also are psychosocially affected. Law
needed to fight human trafficking, says Tobiko www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143951784 The Government is under pressure
to come up with a comprehensive national policy and legislation to counter
human trafficking in the country. The Director of Public
Prosecutions, Keriako Tobiko,
said yesterday that the lack of a counter trafficking legislation posed a big
problem towards the prosecution of offenders. AIDS
Now Compels Africa to Challenge Widows' 'Cleansing' In The Protection Project - Kenya [DOC] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Young Kenyan women and children are
commonly lured with false promises of employment abroad, but they end up in
the sex industry instead. Parents
often pay significant sums to send their children to the United Kingdom
believing that the children will have a better life there. On arriving,
however, Kenyan and other girls from African countries are coerced into
prostitution or forced labor. The most common forms of
trafficking in children from and within Kenya are theft of toddlers,
abduction of children for forced marriage, confinement of child domestic
servants, abduction of children for use in occult practices, and illicit intercountry adoptions.
Child labor is prevalent in Kenya, with an estimated 41.3 percent of
children between 10 and 14 years of age being exploited for cheap labor. In additional, many pregnant women are
reportedly involved in baby trafficking, in which babies who are days old are
sold by the mother or by other individuals. Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free Human Rights Overview by Human Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide Knight Fellow accused of human trafficking daily.stanford.edu/article/2004/2/26/knightFellowAccusedOfHumanTrafficking At one
time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
“ ‘Deya Babies’ Are Victims of Trafficking Archbishop Deya,
whose wife is being questioned, continues to maintain that he can and did
create “miracle babies” for childless couples by exorcising demons to make them
fertile, some charities have come out and said in no uncertain terms that his
actions are, in fact, a front for trafficking babies from Kenya to the UK. Document - 2004 UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Violence against Women: universal but not inevitable! www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/IOR41/004/2004/en/dom-IOR410042004en.html The contents of this article had
appeared under a different title and may possibly still be accessible [here] VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE FAMILY - In some countries, personal status
laws may condone violence against women. Some obedience and modesty laws
require a wife’s submission to her husband and give the husband an explicit
or implicit right to discipline his wife, and in some countries women are
considered to be the property of their fathers or husbands. In parts of
Kenya, for example, on the death of her husband, a woman is likely to be
"inherited" by his brother or a close relative. US names Kenya in slavery report www.ogiek.org/news/news-post-04-06-4.htm At one
time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
"Some trafficking offences
could be prosecuted under laws addressing child labour,
forced detention for prostitution and the commercial exploitation of
children, but no trafficking-related offences have been prosecuted", the
report says in its assessment of But in seeming contradiction to
these criticisms, the State Department says elsewhere in the same assessment
that Kenyan officials are increasingly engaged with the United States to
develop anti-trafficking programmes. The report
notes that a human trafficking unit was created in the police force last year
with US assistance. The
vicious circle of sexual exploitation A unique feature of child
prostitution in Kenya is that people take in destitute children but instead
of caring for them, they hire the children out as prostitutes from time to
time. Some children are also kept in brothels alongside adult prostitutes. Child marriages have also been
noted as a form of sexual exploitation. They are common among the pastoral
communities in districts including Kajiado, Transmara, Moyale, Wajir, and Mandera. According
to the report, some parents are known to marry off their young girls to older
men in order to pay the school fees of their male siblings. - htcp Part 1:
Some foreign household workers enslaved MEDIAN HOURLY WAGE: $2.14 - But according to a June study
on domestic workers by Human Rights Watch, problems persist. A review of more
than 40 cases found immigrants on special visas received a median hourly wage
of $2.14, which is 42% of the $5.15 federal minimum wage. The median workday
was 14 hours. AMONG RECENT CASES - • Alice Benjo
and Mary Chumo, both from Kenya, were "kept as
virtual slaves" at the home of their employer, an employee at the Kenyan
Embassy in Washington, according to legal documents. They worked for
Elizabeth Belsoi, a citizen of Kenya, in the suburb
of Bowie, Md. According to a lawsuit filed last year, they generally worked
more than 18 hours a day, couldn't use the phone and were unable to freely
leave the home. Belsoi
denied the charges through her lawyer, who says she fully complied with the
employment agreement. The lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed
sum. All material used herein
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