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hands of traffickers Published reports & articles from 2011 to 2025 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/SouthSudan.htm
Human traffickers
exploit domestic and foreign victims in South Sudan, and traffickers exploit
victims from South Sudan abroad. South Sudanese women and girls, particularly
those from rural areas or who are internally displaced, are vulnerable to
domestic servitude throughout the country. Male occupants of the household
sexually abuse some of these women and girls while traffickers force others
to engage in commercial sex acts. Prominent South Sudanese individuals in
state capitals and rural areas sometimes force women and girls into domestic
servitude. South Sudanese and
foreign businesspeople exploit South Sudanese girls in sex trafficking in restaurants,
hotels, and brothels in urban centers—at times with the involvement of
corrupt law enforcement officials. South Sudanese individuals coerce some
children to work in construction, market vending, shoe shining, car washing,
rock breaking, brick making, delivery cart pulling, gold mining, begging, and
cattle herding. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2021. Check out a
later country report here and possibly a full TIP Report here |
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CAUTION: The following
links have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in South
Sudan. Some of these links may lead to
websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even
false. No attempt has been made to
verify their authenticity or to validate their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEB-PAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of Human Trafficking are of
particular interest to you. Would you
like to write about Forced-Labor? Debt
Bondage? Prostitution? Forced Begging? Child Soldiers? Sale of Organs? etc. On the other
hand, you might choose to include precursors of trafficking such as poverty and hunger. There is a lot to
the subject of Trafficking. Scan other
countries as well. Draw comparisons
between activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLES *** Examining Human
Trafficking In South Sudan Elisabeth Petry, The Borgen Project, 17
February 2021 borgenproject.org/rhuman-trafficking-in-south-sudan/ [accessed 7 March
2021] 5 FACTS ABOUT HUMAN
TRAFFICKING IN SOUTH SUDAN 1. South Sudanese women
and girls are vulnerable to domestic servitude throughout the country. It is
not uncommon for male occupants of the household to sexually abuse the women
of the house or force them to engage in commercial sex acts. 2. East African
migrants and those transiting through South Sudan vulnerable to abduction,
sex trafficking and forced labor. 3. Unaccompanied
minors in refugee camps or internally displaced children are particularly in
danger of traffickers abducting them. 4. Internal factors
such as social stigma and fear of punishment can often discourage victims of
trafficking from reporting the crimes 5. The government
of the Republic of South Sudan thus far has had limited success in
implementing proper strategies to address the dangers of human trafficking. ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: South Sudan U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/south-sudan/
[accessed 25 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR Forced labor
occurred in domestic work, in agricultural labor on family farms and at
cattle camps. Most of those in situations of forced labor in cattle camps and
agricultural activities were victimized by their own family members.
Employers subjected women, migrants, and children (see section 7.c.) to
forced labor in mines, restaurants, street begging, criminal activities, and
sexual exploitation. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT Of children between
ages 10 and 14, more than 45 percent were engaged in some form of child
labor, largely in cattle herding, firewood gathering, or subsistence farming
with family members. The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated the prevalence
of child labor. Forced child labor occurred in brickmaking, cattle herding,
gold mining, and market vending. Child labor was also prevalent in construction, domestic work, street work, and commercial
sexual exploitation (see section 6, Children). Girls rescued from brothels in
Juba reported that police provided security for the brothels, and SSPDF
soldiers and government officials were frequent clients of child victims of
sexual exploitation. State and nonstate armed group
forcibly recruited of children for armed conflict (see section 1.g.). Freedom House
Country Reports 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/south-sudan/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 6 May 2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Trafficking in
persons for forced labor and sexual exploitation is widespread, with rural
women and girls, the internally displaced, and migrants from neighboring
countries among the most vulnerable to mistreatment. The use of child
soldiers is also a serious problem. In September 2019, the UN warned that
child recruitment was increasing, and that more girls were forced to provide
labor, including sex work. 2017 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2018 www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ilab/ChildLaborReport_Book.pdf [accessed 22 April
2019] www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2017/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 6 May
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 912] The national
army—the Sudan People’s Libration Army (SPLA)—and its
aligned forces recruited child soldiers as young as age 12, sometimes
forcibly or with the aid of senior politicians and community leaders, to
fight against armed groups. (6; 7; 8) In 2017, UNICEF verified 140 incidents
of recruitment and use of children, affecting at least 1,221 children (1,057
boys and 164 girls). About 65 percent of these incidents were attributed to
the SPLA and other government security forces, with the remaining attributed
to the SPLA-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) (First Vice President Taban
Deng Gai), the SPLA-IO (Riek
Machar), the South Sudan National Liberation Movement, and the South Sudan
Democratic Army-Cobra Faction. (25; 30) Boys were forcibly
recruited for use in armed conflict, including through abduction from their
homes and schools and as a result of coercive threats to confiscate their
family’s cattle. (7; 25; 33) UNICEF estimates 3,200 children have been
abducted since 2013, many of whom have been subsequently forced into combat
roles. (6; 7; 25) Children who joined willingly to protect their communities,
after the loss of family members or shelter, or with promises of food or
money for their families, were ultimately unable to leave the groups at will
and instead were forced into combat roles. (7; 25; 30) Children also cooked,
collected firewood, herded cattle, washed clothes, carried water and
ammunition, manned checkpoints, carried out patrols, stole cattle, served as
escorts and bodyguards to senior officers, perpetuated violence against
civilians, or recruited other children. (6; 25; 33; 34) The SPLA, other
government security services, and armed groups forcibly recruited girls to
serve as child soldiers and carry out support roles, during which time they
were often coerced into performing sex acts. (34; 6) In 2017, UNICEF and
ceasefire monitors noted an increase in the use of girls in armed forces.
With worsening economic conditions due to the ongoing conflict, families also
increasingly placed girls into prostitution to augment household income. (6;
7). ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Freedom House
Country Report 2018 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/south-sudan/freedom-world/2018 [accessed 12 July
2021] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS ENJOY
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Sex and labor
trafficking is widespread, with rural woman and girls, the internally
displaced, and migrants from neighboring countries among the most vulnerable
to exploitation. Armed groups involved in the civil war have routinely
recruited child soldiers. All
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