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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Republic
of Kenya [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The Republic of Kenya [map], located in E Africa, is bordered by Somalia (E), by the
Indian Ocean (SE), by Tanzania (S), by Lake Victoria (Victoria Nyanza) (SW),
by Uganda (W), by Sudan (NW), and by Ethiopia (N). Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for men,
women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and
commercial sexual exploitation. Kenyan children are trafficked within the
country for domestic servitude, street vending, agricultural labor, and
commercial sexual exploitation, including involvement in the coastal sex
tourism industry. Kenyan men, women, and girls are trafficked to the Middle East,
other African nations, Europe, and North America for domestic servitude,
enslavement in massage parlors and brothels, and forced manual labor. Foreign
employment agencies facilitate and profit from the trafficking of Kenyan
nationals to Middle Eastern nations, notably Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., and
Lebanon, as well as Germany. Chinese, Indian, and Pakistani women reportedly
transit Nairobi en route to exploitation in Europe's commercial sex trade.
Brothels and massage parlors in Nairobi employ foreign women, some of whom
are likely trafficked.
- U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2007 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Kenya:
Tackling Human Trafficking Through a National Plan of Action 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. ***
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- Select Gender, Country ( 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 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 A new report by an international
trade unions’ umbrella organisation says Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates and Yemen are notorious destinations for women trafficked from
Kenya. 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. Nation Newspapers carries a story
today where the German ambassador
to Kenya laments on the practice of child trafficking. More than
20,000 children are trafficked annually in Kenya! 20,000! Where are the
parents whenever this practice is going on? 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 "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 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 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 Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 3 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide 2004 Immigrant worker from Kenya suing journalist for human
trafficking 2004 'Deya Babies' Are Victims of Trafficking 2004 Individuals from countries including 2004 Women as property … on death of husband, a woman may be
inherited by his brother 2004 “90 percent … forced into prostitution against their will”
- Missionary with 24 years in 2004 US gives 2002 In some sectors, children are 70% of labor force, many
working in violation of interntl laws 2002 2001 Among recent cases - 1998 Report on mission … on the issue of commercial sexual
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