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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Republic
of Senegal [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The Senegal is a source, transit, and destination country for
children and women trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial
sexual exploitation. Trafficking within the country is more prevalent than
trans-border trafficking and the majority of victims are children. Within
Senegal, religious teachers traffic boys, called talibe, by promising to
educate them, but subjecting them instead to forced begging and physical abuse.
A 2007 study done by UNICEF, the ILO, and the World Bank found that 6,480
talibe were forced to beg in Dakar alone. Women and girls are trafficked for
domestic servitude and sexual exploitation, including for sex tourism, within
Senegal. Transnationally, boys are trafficked to Senegal from The Gambia,
Mali, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea for forced begging by religious teachers.
Senegalese women and girls are trafficked to neighboring countries, the
Middle East, and Europe for domestic servitude and possibly for sexual
exploitation. Women and girls from other West African countries, particularly
Liberia, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria may be trafficked to Senegal for
sexual exploitation, including for sex tourism. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking
in Persons Report, June, 2008 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Lives of Street Children in Senegal to Improve through New Campaign CHILD TRAFFICKERS TARGETED - Poor parents who cannot afford to care for their children often entrust them to religious leaders known as marabous to educate them and teach them the Koran. Child traffickers posing as marabous will often kidnap the children from villages and take them to Dakar where they are forced to beg for handouts in the streets. Under threat of beatings, the children must give the money to their “masters.” ***
ARCHIVES *** U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - In March 2004, the government participated in a workshop
in Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Reliable
statistics on the extent of the trafficking problem were unavailable.
However, studies have shown the extent of trafficking in and through the
country to be significant, particularly with regards to child begging.
Talibés were trafficked from surrounding nations, such as The Gambia, Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2006 [DOC] [60]
The Committee notes with appreciation the establishment of projects with a
view to improving the curriculum of education of talibés. However, the Committee is concerned by the
large number of working children and in particular by the current practice of
the Koranic schools run by marabouts who use the talibés on a large scale for
economic gain, by sending them to agricultural fields or to the streets for
begging and other illicit work that provides money, thus preventing them from
having access to health, education and good living conditions. [62] The Committee notes the measures taken by the State party
to prevent girls from being used as domestic servants (petites bonnes) and
subjected to economic exploitation and sexual abuse. However, the Committee is concerned by the
growing extent of this reality which threatens the health, physical integrity
and education of the girl child. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 1995 [15] The Committee is seriously
worried at the difficult living conditions faced by a great number of
talibés, who are deprived of the enjoyment of their fundamental rights under
the law. Lives
of Street Children in Senegal to Improve through New Campaign CHILD TRAFFICKERS TARGETED - Poor parents who cannot afford
to care for their children often entrust them to religious leaders known as
marabous to educate them and teach them the Koran. Child traffickers posing as
marabous will often kidnap the children from villages and take them to Dakar
where they are forced to beg for handouts in the streets. Under threat of
beatings, the children must give the money to their “masters.” Freedom
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