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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Kenya.htm
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
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** A generation betrayed [access information unavailable] 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. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/kenya.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor, March 8, 2006 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61575.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] 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) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
12 October 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/kenya2001.html [accessed 16 February 2011] [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. International Organization for Migration
IOM, 17 August 2007 allafrica.com/stories/200708170834.html [partially accessed 7 September 2011 -
access restricted] In addition,
internal trafficking of Kenyans is considered to be widespread, particularly
from rural to urban areas such as Passport forgery to blame for trafficking Susan Anyangu,
East African Standard Page: 11 on Sat 12th May 2007, under Governance www.marsgroupkenya.org/multimedia/?StoryID=175432&page=2 [accessed 28 November 2010] 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 Patrick Mathangani,
The Standard, May 11, 2007 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 7 September 2011] A new report by an
international trade unions’ umbrella organisation
says International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) says Kenyans were also trafficked
to 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 Trafficking victim tells her story Patrick Mayoyo,
Daily Nation ( www.afrika.no/Detailed/13575.html [accessed 16 February 2011] Lucy Kabanya, 39, was in high spirits at the A generation betrayed [access information unavailable] 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. Ngumbao Kithi,
The Nation ( At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 7 September 2011] "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 18 August 2006 -- Source:
www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143956960 [accessed 16 February 2011] 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. Child Trafficking in the Ambrose Musiyiwa
(amusiyiwa), OhmyNews,
2006-07-25 Click [here]
to connect. The URL is not shown
because of its length [accessed 23 April 2012] She was a teenage
orphan living on the streets of True to his word,
her "savior" brought her into the 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 The sequence of
events that has emerged during those interviews is both shocking and tragic.
It involves imprisonment, beatings, and systematic rape over a lengthy
period. Migration body to monitor human trafficking
impact [access information unavailable] "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 30 April 2006 -- Source:
www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143951784 [accessed 17 February 2011] 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. An African cleansing rite that now can kill Sharon LaFraniere,
The New York Times, May 12, 2005 www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/health/11iht-malawi.html?pagewanted=all [accessed 23 April 2012] In The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/kenya.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
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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 The most common
forms of trafficking in children from and within Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/kenya [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 17 February 2011] Knight Fellow accused of human trafficking Joaquín Hernández, The
Stanford Daily, February 26, 2004 At one time this article had been archived and
may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 7 September 2011] “ ‘Deya Babies’ Are
Victims of Trafficking Mwangi Githahu,
The Nation, www.religionnewsblog.com/8585/deya-babies-are-victims-of-trafficking [accessed 17 February 2011] 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 Document - 2004 UN Commission on the Status
of Women. Violence against Women: universal but not inevitable! Amnesty
International, 2004 [accessed 17 February 2011] 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 US names Kevin J Kelley, Daily Nation, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 7 September 2011] "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 The vicious circle of sexual exploitation Zachary Ochieng, News from www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_854.html [accessed 17 February 2011] A unique feature of
child prostitution in 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 Stephanie Armour,
www.usatoday.com/money/general/2001/11/19/cover.htm [accessed 17 February 2011] 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 Child Labour Persists Around The World:
More Than 13 Percent Of Children 10-14 Are Employed International Labour Organisation (ILO) News,
www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/news/WCMS_008058/lang--en/index.htm [accessed 7 September 2011] "Today's child
worker will be tomorrow's uneducated and untrained adult, forever trapped in
grinding poverty. No effort should be spared to break that vicious
circle", says ILO Director-General Michel Hansenne. Among the countries
with a high percentage of their children from 10-14 years in the work force
are: Mali, 54.5 percent; Burkina Faso, 51; Niger and Uganda, both 45; Kenya, 41.3; Senegal, 31.4; Bangladesh, 30.1; Nigeria, 25.8; Haiti, 25;
Turkey, 24; Côte d'Ivoire, 20.5; Pakistan, 17.7; Brazil, 16.1; India, 14.4;
China, 11.6; and Egypt, 11.2. All
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