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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Lithuania.htm
Lithuania is a source, transit, and destination country for
women and children trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.
One estimate concluded that approximately 20 percent of Lithuanian
trafficking victims are underage girls. Lithuanian women are trafficked
within the country and to the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands,
Greece, Italy, France, and the Czech Republic for the purpose of forced
prostitution. Women from Belarus are trafficked to Lithuania for the same
purpose. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Trafficked to the West Jill McGivering, BBC News, Lithuania, 9
July 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4663841.stm [accessed 18 February 2011] Last summer, she
had been approached by a childhood friend, she told me. He said he knew someone who was recruiting
women to work as prostitutes in Within weeks she
arrived in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/lithuania.htm [accessed 18 February 2011] GOVERNMENT
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - In January 2002,
the government approved a Program on the Control and Prevention of
Trafficking in Humans and Prostitution for 2002-2004. The program concentrated on the causes of
prostitution and trafficking; preventive measures; and on providing social,
psychological, and legal support to victims of prostitution and
trafficking. With funding and
assistance from the World Bank, the government is implementing a National
Poverty Reduction Strategy in order to assist vulnerable populations,
including at risk children. In
partnership with government agencies, IOM launched a counter-trafficking
project aimed at establishing a coordinated system of assistance for
trafficking victims from the INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Organized crime figures are reported to use coercive
means to traffic Lithuanian girls into prostitution abroad, particularly to Western
European countries. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61660.htm [accessed 18 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Traffickers targeted the socially most vulnerable groups: young females
from poor or unstable families. Traffickers also commonly targeted young
women from ethnic minorities. Many were lured by deceptive offers of jobs
such as household helpers, bar dancers, nannies, nurses, models, or
waitresses, or through false marriage advertisements. In many cases close
relatives or friends made the offers. Victims' compliance was ensured via
threats and the withholding of their documents. Families often were unaware
of their predicament and believed that they had been kidnapped. Boarding
schools that also serve as orphanages were new targets of traffickers. Police reported
that nearly half of traffickers were linked to organized crime, including
international groups Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
26 January 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/lithuania2001.html [accessed 18 February 2011] [53] The Committee,
while noting the National Program against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation
and Sexual Abuse of Children of 2000, expresses its deep concern at the lack
of data, consistent policies, rehabilitation and reintegration programs, and
the reports of disappearances of minors, in particular girls, allegedly for
trafficking purposes. A barbaric trade in human misery right on
our doorsteps Chris Bond, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/A-barbaric-trade-in-human.3490580.jp [accessed 18 February 2011] "One of the
first victims we helped in the "She was
phoned up by someone and asked if she would like to sell ice cream for the
summer in London and was told she would earn about £300." The traffickers signed a consent form and
her parents, believing it was a good opportunity, approved the trip. "She was flown to Gatwick and sold in
a coffee shop from one trafficker to another for £3,000, her passport was
taken off her and sold for £4,000.
"Later the same night, she was taken to a flat and brutalised and raped, and from that moment on she was
forced to act as a prostitute." CESCR Concluding
Observations: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights CESCR, 14-05-2004 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/dc6f7a5b9f384505c1256e98004990ac?OpenDocument [accessed 18 February 2011] [19] The Committee
notes with concern that trafficking in women and children continues to be a
problem in the State party, which is a country of origin and transit, in
spite of the existence of the "Program on control and prevention of
prostitution and commercial trade in people for 2002-2004" and that the
new Criminal Code provides for criminal liability for a number of
trafficking-related crimes, including trade in people (art. 147), profiting
from another person's prostitution (art. 307), and procuring to prostitution
(art. 308). Moreover, the Committee regrets that the lack of information on
the number of people trafficked does not give an accurate picture of the
extent of the problem. The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/lithuania.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS
THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE – After 1990, the
three Sex traffic: Danielle was 15 when she was
sold into slavery in the Sophie Goodchild
and Kurt Barling, The Independent Click [here]
to connect. The URL is not shown because
of its length [accessed 23 April 2012] Danielle was
excited at the prospect of leaving her home in Danielle suspected
nothing until the stranger took her passport once they passed through customs
and left her with two Albanians and a Lithuanian woman. It turned out that
she had been sold for £3,500. The "holiday job" was working in a
brothel in Birmingham. Sex trade gang 'beggared belief' BBC News, 18 October 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/4353344.stm [accessed 18 February 2011] Sentencing, Judge
Barber said: "Their behavior absolutely beggared belief,
they had taken two young Lithuanian girls and transported them to CPS continues fight against sex trade
traffickers Crown Prosecution Service CPS, 16 September
2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8 September 2011] The latest Crown
Prosecution Service case against human traffickers ended today with the
sentencing of Viktoras Larcenko,
the last member of a gang convicted for smuggling girls from Trafficked to the West Jill McGivering,
BBC news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4663841.stm [accessed 18 February 2011] Last summer, she
had been approached by a childhood friend, she told me. He said he knew someone who was recruiting
women to work as prostitutes in Within weeks she
arrived in The People Traffickers The [accessed 18 February 2011] "The model is
often the same. The ones who try to recruit women on the streets tend to be
young men, in their early twenties. Often they are good-looking. Crossing Borders: The Trafficking of
Children into the End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography
and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes ECPAT-UK www.hackney.gov.uk/Assets/Documents/child-trafficking-in-uk-crossing-borders-2005.pdf [accessed 2 December 2010] The story of Elena,
a 15-year-old East European girl lured to the I've run out of tears, says girl sold
around Nigel Bunyan,
Telegraph, 11/05/2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8 September 2011] That night she had
been due to be passed on to her eighth owner in three months. Eventually, it
is thought, she was likely to have been sold on to traffickers in Concern rises on failure to arrest war
suspects Agence France-Presse AFP, February 26, 2005 www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/world/europe/25iht-briefs.html [accessed 18 February 2011] VILNIUS, LITHUANIA: The number of young Lithuanian women sold for sex in Britain has increased from "single cases to dozens every month" since the country joined the European Union last year, the head of Lithuania's Interpol bureau said Friday. "Nightclub Girls Helped Me Escape
Captivity" The Star, 23 February 2005 www.thestar.co.uk/news/39Nightclub-girls-helped-me-escape.953265.jp [accessed 30 August 2012] The youngster, from Freedom House Country
Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status:
Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/lithuania [accessed 26 June 2012] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, December
12, 2007 [accessed 18 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DK502.35
.E86 1996 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/lttoc.html [accessed 18 February 2011] Women's sex slave nightmare Rob Waugh, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Women39s-sex-slave-nightmare.909654.jp [accessed 18 February 2011] Two Albanian
illegal immigrants have become the first men in the Single, Europe-Wide Strategy against Human
Trafficking UN Information Service UNIS, www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/pressrels/2004/hrct653.html [accessed 18 February 2011] Developing and
coordinating a single Europe-wide anti-trafficking strategy should be
seriously considered, he said in his detailed explanation of Call for residency for human trafficking
victims At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8 September 2011] Eight men are to
appear this week in Oslo City Court on charges of human trafficking. This is
the first time a case concerning prostitution-related human trafficking is to
be tried by Norway’s justice system. Two girls from Lithuania claim to have
been brought against their will to Norway in autumn 2001 and forced to work
as prostitutes. The Queen's Speech in November 2003 saw the
introduction of The Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Bill ECPAT-UK Newsletter, March 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 September 2011] [scroll down to
Other News] OTHER NEWS - In July last
year, seven women from The Reintegration Problems of Victims of
Trafficking in People in Secretary of the Social Security and Labor
ministry Violeta Murauskaitë At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 September 2011] It is well known
that women victims often get physically and emotionally abused. If
psychological aid is provided in time, that means, a step into successful
psycho-rehabilitation process has been made. The motivation and
self-awareness of victims are very important, thus it is necessary to change
the way of thinking of the victim. During the rehabilitation process a change
in a life style of children and women as well as their emotional states are
emphasized. It is important to recreate social links with the corresponding
social background and to prepare victims for living on their own. Based on the Annual Report 2002 of the
Lithuanian Human Rights Association At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 September 2011] TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN
BEINGS
- In 2002 Lithuanian society still held the view that victims
of trafficking who were forced to work as prostitutes should be held
accountable for their own misfortune. The problem was often treated as a
problem of illegal immigration, and as a result of this, women were left
without any rights in the foreign country, and without protection. The
trafficking of foreign women to Lithuania to engage in prostitution was a
problem for Lithuanian law enforcement and this meant that attention which
perhaps should have focused on the women involved was instead directed at
combating the criminal activities of prostitutes and their managers. Recognition For Courageous Work Against
Drugs And Crime UN Information Service UNIS, www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/pressrels/2002/nar769.html [accessed 18 February 2011] The Missing Persons
Families Support Centre in A Form of Slavery: Trafficking in Women in
OSCE Member States [PDF] International At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 September 2011] [page 40] The National programme
against the commercial Sexual Exploitation and sexual abuse of Children Approved by Resolution no. 29 of 11 January
2000 of the Government of the At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8 September 2011] 12. The
commercial sexual exploitation of children is connected with organised crime; in this instance we are talking about
drawing children into prostitution and pornographic business. International collaboration by police
officers really helps to stop such criminal activity. Since 1991, Lithuania is a full member of
the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol). The Lithuanian National Bureau of Interpol,
in which an officer responsible for the investigation of problems of abuse
against children has been appointed since 1998, represents the Republic of
Lithuania in this organisation. All
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