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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/SouthKorea.htm
The Republic of
Korea (ROK) is a source country for the trafficking of women and girls within
the country and to the United States (often through Canada and Mexico),
Japan, Hong Kong, Guam, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, for the purpose
of commercial sexual exploitation. The ROK is a destination country for women
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links have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in the ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** South Korean labour laws reduce migrant
workers to slaves Mostly Water, 16 March 2004 [accessed 23 December 2010] To migrant workers,
the EPS is a law that allows slavery. According to the new law, migrant
workers can work in South Korea for only three years and for only one
employer. Since migrant workers cannot change their work place, the employer
basically has complete control over the wages and working conditions of
migrant workers; thus these workers are bound to the employer like slaves. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61613.htm [accessed 23 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Women from Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
31 January 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/korea2003.html [accessed 23 December 2010] [42] The Committee
remains concerned that, due to prevailing negative cultural traditions,
domestic adoptions may be arranged without authorization or involvement of
the competent authorities and that such arrangements do not necessarily take
into account the best interests of the child or, where appropriate, the views
of the child. The Committee also notes with concern the high number of
inter-country adoptions, suggesting that this form of adoption is not
necessarily a measure of last resort, and reiterates its concern, stated in
previous concluding observations, that the State party has not ratified the
Hague Convention of 1993 on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect
of Inter-country Adoption. Human trafficking in S. Korea Editorial, The Hankyoreh,
Feb.28,2009 english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_editorial/341437.html [accessed 23 December 2010] “Natasha,” 29, came
to Kang Shin-who, Asian Sex Gazette, 8
September 2006 www.asiansexgazette.com/asg/korea/korea02news89.htm [accessed 23 December 2010] Indonesia traffics
children who often become sexually enslaved, said the report, and women and
girls as young as 10 years old from Kyrgyzstan are transported for sexual
exploitation and end up in countries like South Korea, the report said. Source:
english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507030020.html www.worldsexguide.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11833 [accessed 23 December 2010] The number of
Korean women looking for work as prostitutes abroad or being trafficked for
the purpose is on the increase. Some 50 members of two gangs busted in Key US Gulf Allies Cited in Human
Trafficking Report Voice of www.voanews.com/articleprintview/548041.html [accessed 4 September 2012] Mr. Miller also
commended NBI Busts Mail-Order Bride Syndicate The Philippine Star, www.newsflash.org/2004/02/ht/ht004954.htm [accessed 23 December 2010] In his report to Wycoco, NBI Anti-Human Trafficking Division (AHTRAD)
chief Romulo Asis said the group’s modus operandi
was to entice Filipino women to apply for match-marriages with male
Koreans. Asis
said Korean clients would come to the Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 2 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/south-korea [accessed 28 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 23 December 2010] Library of Congress Call Number DS902 .S68
1992 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/krtoc.html [accessed 23 December 2010] Xinhua News Agency, September 13, 1994 www.migrationint.com.au/news/oman/oct_1994-23mn.asp At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Illegal foreign
workers deported from Moon Gwang-lip,
The Korea Times, 8 September 2004 www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=14444 [accessed 23 December 2010] In July, Lawrence
Summers, president of South Korean labour laws reduce migrant
workers to slaves Mostly Water, 16 March 2004 [accessed 23 December 2010] To migrant workers,
the EPS is a law that allows slavery. According to the new law, migrant
workers can work in South Korea for only three years and for only one
employer. Since migrant workers cannot change their work place, the employer
basically has complete control over the wages and working conditions of
migrant workers; thus these workers are bound to the employer like slaves. Sally Hardcastle, BBC News, 27 September
2001 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1566971.stm [accessed 23 December 2010] Garment workers
around the world are accusing South Korean companies of treating workers as
"virtual slaves" in factories abroad. The Secretary General of the International
Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation (ITGLW) has gone to Seoul to
protest about the treatment of workers in countries including Sri Lanka and
Bangladesh. The ITGLW, which
represents workers in the garment industry all around the world, alleges that
South Korean companies running factories abroad top the list of bad
employers. Global Dimensions in Mapping the Foreign
Labor Policies of Dong-Hoon Seol, Dept of Sociology, www.calstatela.edu/centers/ckaks/Global_Migration_Conf/Seol_paper.pdf [accessed 23 December 2010] ABSTRACT - This paper focuses
on global dimensions in mapping the foreign labor policies of Sex slaves William H. McMichael, Times staff writer, Songtan, prakorea.blogspot.com/2005/10/flesh-trade.html [accessed 23 December 2010] Lana came to The nine months she
has worked in clubs that dot the half-mile strip running straight away from
the front gate of the U.S. Air Force's Osan Air Base
have left her with eyes far too world-weary for a 24-year-old. Stripped of her passport by her bar owner,
in fear of corrupt South Korean police and deeply in debt to her new bosses,
she was forced to sell sex to American servicemen. She became, in essence, a sex slave. Thousands of Women Forced Into Sexual
Slavery For US Servicemen in Feminist News, Feminist Majority
Foundation, September 9, 2002 www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=6870 [accessed 23 December 2010] Since the mid
1990s, more than 5,000 women have been trafficked
into Malia Rulon,
Associated Press AP, Washington, August 7, 2003 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 11 September 2011] [scroll down] As a result of the
investigation, U.S. military officials in South Korea have made an additional
26 establishments suspected of being involved in prostitution and human
trafficking off-limits to U.S. servicemen. They also have increased
educational efforts for all service members on how to spot instances of human
trafficking. The report recommended
that the military create a standardized human trafficking curriculum; make
improvements to on-base entertainment and recreational facilities; and
continue coordination efforts with South Korean law enforcement officials. kalaniosullivan.com/KunsanAB/8thFW/Howitwasb11d6.html#Center At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 11 September 2011] Base Instincts Donald Macintyre/Tongduchon,
TIME Magazine, Aug. 05, 2002 www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501020812-333899,00.html [accessed 23 December 2010] "The women are
here because they've been tricked," he says, nonchalantly. "They're
told they're going to be bartending or waitressing, but once they get here,
things are different," he adds, with a knowing look. The fact that the women may have been
forced into prostitution doesn't seem to bother most of their
soldier-patrons. Nor, until recently, did it bother the military brass at the
bases. But now a U.S. Senator and 12 members of Congress are demanding
action. Alarmed by a Fox Television news report casing brothels where
trafficked women were allegedly forced to prostitute themselves to G.I.s, the
lawmakers sent a letter to the Pentagon in May, asking for an investigation. All
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