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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/SolomonIslands.htm
Scope and Magnitude. [June 2008]
There is anecdotal evidence that young women from Southeast Asian
countries such as Indonesia, the People’s Republic of China, the Philippines,
and Malaysia are trafficked to the Solomon Islands for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation. Reports also indicate that girls and women
are trafficked within the Solomon Islands for the purpose of commercial
sexual exploitation to logging camps. Child sex tourism appears to be a small
problem with some visiting nationals of the United Kingdom, Australia, and
France sexually exploiting local children. There are reports that boys and
girls are taken out to foreign and local fishing vessels by their parents for
commercial sexual exploitation with fishermen in exchange for fish. Children
are occasionally sold into commercial sexual exploitation to pay bills or to
earn school fees. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June,
2008 [full country
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CAUTION: The following links have been
culled from the web to illuminate the situation in the Solomon Islands. Some of these links may lead to websites
that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false. No
attempt has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Lure of Logging Creates Another Headache Alfred Sasako, Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 11 September 2011] As if this is not enough, the lure
of logging has created another problem. It is new and growing and is proving
to be a headache for the country’s policymakers. In logging camps dotted across the nation,
a new generation of children fathered by foreign loggers is growing. Mothers
are often under-age girls with little or no education at all. A girl’s marriage to foreign loggers was
often pre-arranged by parents who knew the foreigners had families back in
Malaysia or in the Philippines and that one day they would leave. Other young girls were often “trafficked” into logging camps often by operators of
prostitution rings. What many parents do not realise is that the number of children being born and
left behind in the Solomon Islands by loggers is on the rise. “These children simply have no one to look
after them in terms of clothing, feeding and schoolling
them,” I was told in Honiara recently.
“It’s a generation of fatherless children left behind by loggers who
have gone back to their countries after they’ve destroyed our forests. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2005 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2005/tda2005.pdf [accessed 22 December 2010] CHILD LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - The worst forms of child labor
may be prosecuted under different statutes in the Human Rights Reports » 2006
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78791.htm [accessed 22 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Although
the law does not prohibit trafficking in persons, there were no reports that
persons were trafficked to, from, or within the country. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 June 2003 www.universalhumanrightsindex.org/documents/829/552/document/en/text.html [accessed 22 December 2010] [52] The Committee is concerned
that:(a) Many children under 15 are working, often in very poor conditions
and for long hours;
(b) In order to overcome extreme poverty, many parents and
families require children to work, as illustrated by the prevalence of young
girls working as domestics, sometimes within the extended family; (c) The prevalence of child labour prevents
many children from attending school. Lure of Logging Creates Another Headache Alfred Sasako, Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 11 September 2011] As if this is not enough, the lure
of logging has created another problem. It is new and growing and is proving
to be a headache for the country’s policymakers. In logging camps dotted across the nation,
a new generation of children fathered by foreign loggers is growing. Mothers
are often under-age girls with little or no education at all. A girl’s marriage to foreign loggers was
often pre-arranged by parents who knew the foreigners had families back in
Malaysia or in the Philippines and that one day they would leave. Other young girls were often “trafficked” into logging camps often by operators of
prostitution rings. What many parents do not realise is that the number of children being born and
left behind in the Solomon Islands by loggers is on the rise. “These children simply have no one to look
after them in terms of clothing, feeding and schoolling
them,” I was told in Honiara recently.
“It’s a generation of fatherless children left behind by loggers who
have gone back to their countries after they’ve destroyed our forests. Delegates agree to strengthen efforts to reduce demand for
CSEC Joint Media Release: ECPAT International, UNESCAP, UNICEF
- 11 November 2004, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 11 September 2011] In the Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7703 [accessed 22 December 2010] All material used herein
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