Human Trafficking in [Namibia Street Children in [Namibia] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Namibia] [other countries] |
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the first
ten years of the 21st Century
- 2000 to 2009
Namibia is a source, transit, and
destination country for children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor
and commercial sexual exploitation. Namibian children are trafficked within
the country for domestic servitude and forced agricultural labor, cattle
herding, vending, and commercial sexual exploitation. In some cases, Namibian
parents may have unwittingly sold their children into trafficking conditions,
including child prostitution. There have been reports of Namibian children
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Namibia:
Human Trafficking A Headache for Police allafrica.com/stories/200809240219.html
"After 10 years of Interpol
working group meetings on trafficking, I would argue that we still know
amazingly little. We have only a vague idea of the scale of the crime and the
way it is organized. We know fairly little about the traffickers. We
understand fragments of the recruitment process, we know a little about how
the money is moved but not enough to make an impact through the seizing of
assets." Kvigne
said the gaps in understanding this problem could be attributed to the
diversity of the crime as it differs from one country to another. Deputy Inspector General for
Administration at the Namibian Police, Major General James Tjivikua said trafficking has become a major concern in
the region. Tjivikua
added that the trafficking of persons especially women and children is
worsened by a number of factors, the leading cause being that of profit. The trafficking of human beings is a
multi-faceted area of crime incorporating crimes as diverse as trafficking
for forced labour into the agriculture sector or
manufacturing industries, trafficking in human organs and sexual services for
promised better opportunities. The
clandestine nature of human trafficking makes the scale of the illicit
industry difficult to assess and there are few reliable statistics on the
number of persons trafficked in the Southern African region. ***
ARCHIVES *** U.S. Dept
of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs [PDF] INCIDENCE AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In 1999, approximately 15.5
percent of boys and 13.9 percent of girls ages 5 to 14 were working in
Namibia. The majority of working children were found in the agricultural
sector (91.4 percent), followed by services (8.2 percent), manufacturing (0.4
percent), and other sectors (0.1 percent). Children work in commercial and
subsistence agriculture, the informal sector, and domestic service. Children
find self-employment in basket weaving, traditional beer making, selling
fruits and vegetables, barbering, milking cows, and farming communal land. To
support their households, children also tend livestock, hunt, fish, and
gather wild foods. Children from Angola, Zambia, and other countries
neighboring Namibia reportedly enter the country illegally and work on
communal farms. Children from poor rural households frequently assist
extended family in urban centers with house cleaning, cooking, and child
care, in exchange for food, shelter, and sometimes clothes and money.
Numerous HIV/AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children are reportedly
engaged in commercial sexual exploitation. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The law specifically
prohibits trafficking in persons, and there were no reports of persons being
trafficked to, from, or within the country; however, child prostitution
occurred. The law also prohibits slavery, kidnapping, and forced labor,
including forced prostitution, child labor, and alien smuggling. Traffickers
were subject to fines of up to $166,000 (N$ one million) or up to 50 years'
imprisonment. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 1994 [DOC] [10] Equally, the Committee is concerned at the
situation of children in especially difficult circumstances, including the
incidence of child labour, particularly on farms
and in the informal sector, and the number of children dropping out of
school. Namibia:
Human Trafficking A Headache for Police allafrica.com/stories/200809240219.html
"After 10 years of Interpol
working group meetings on trafficking, I would argue that we still know
amazingly little. We have only a vague idea of the scale of the crime and the
way it is organized. We know fairly little about the traffickers. We
understand fragments of the recruitment process, we know a little about how
the money is moved but not enough to make an impact through the seizing of
assets." Kvigne
said the gaps in understanding this problem could be attributed to the
diversity of the crime as it differs from one country to another. Deputy Inspector General for Administration
at the Namibian Police, Major General James Tjivikua
said trafficking has become a major concern in the region. Tjivikua added
that the trafficking of persons especially women and children is worsened by
a number of factors, the leading cause being that of profit. The trafficking of human beings is a
multi-faceted area of crime incorporating crimes as diverse as trafficking
for forced labour into the agriculture sector or
manufacturing industries, trafficking in human organs and sexual services for
promised better opportunities. The
clandestine nature of human trafficking makes the scale of the illicit
industry difficult to assess and there are few reliable statistics on the
number of persons trafficked in the Southern African region. The
Protection Project - Namibia [DOC] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - There is little evidence that trafficking for prostitution is widespread in Namibia; however, at least one case has been reported, which involves the transport of young Namibian women to South Africa for forced prostitution. In 2002, a member of parliament appealed to other legislators to enact a bill to outlaw domestic and other forms of abuse with respect to children who were being trafficked for the sex trade at a farm in the Aris area near the outskirts of Windhoek. There, parents and grandparents were reportedly forcing their children into prostitution in return for alcohol. Freedom
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