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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Senegal.htm
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 commercial sexual exploitation -- including
exploitation by foreign sex tourists -- within Senegal. Children are also
trafficked for forced labor in gold mines within Senegal. - |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Lives of Street Children in The World Bank News, February 13, 2007 [accessed 21 December 2010] 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 ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/senegal.htm [accessed 21 December 2010] 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 Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61589.htm [accessed 21 December 2010] 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] UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 29 September
2006 [accessed 21 December 2010] [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 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 27 November 1995 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/crc-senegal95.htm [accessed 21 December 2010] [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 The World Bank News, February 13, 2007 [accessed 21 December 2010] 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 Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 3 Civil Liberties: 3 Status:
Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7697 [accessed 21 December 2010] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 21 December 2010] 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 4 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 material used herein
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