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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Republic
of Tajikistan [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The Tajikistan is a source country for women trafficked through
Kyrgyzstan and Russia to the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), Turkey, and
Russia for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Women are also reportedly
trafficked to Pakistan for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced
labor. Men are trafficked to Russia and Kazakhstan for the purpose of forced
labor, primarily in the construction and agricultural industries. Boys and
girls are trafficked internally for various purposes, including forced labor
and forced begging. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June,
2008 [full country report] |
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jailed for forcing child into sex trade Last week a non-governmental
organisation said there was a growing trend in the abduction and sale of Tajik
boys for sexual exploitation abroad.
The Modar organisation said groups in the United Arab Emirates,
Turkey, Pakistan and other countries were prepared to pay as much as
$70 000 for a Tajik boy between the ages of 10 and 12. ***
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Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The
majority of trafficking victims were female, single, and aged 20 to 26. Many were
new arrivals to Women and girls were trafficked
from the country primarily for cheap domestic labor or sex work. Male
trafficking victims were primarily used for labor abroad in agriculture, factories,
or construction; some were held as slaves without pay. Traffickers included former field
commanders--so-called warlords‑ who rose to positions of power and
wealth during the country's civil war. Others, including women, were powerful
local figures who used their wealth to cultivate patron-client relationships
throughout their community to create a trafficking network. Recruiters were
also often individuals familiar to victims, such as neighbors, acquaintances,
or relatives. Victims commonly were recruited
through false promises of employment. Advertisement of such work was
conducted through social contacts; traffickers used their local status and
prestige to help recruit victims. There also were cases of false wedding
proposals and, on occasion, kidnappings in rural areas. Traffickers generally
transported victims by air to the Middle East and by train to Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2000 [32] The Committee is concerned
about the absence of national adoption standards, particularly in relation to
foster and adoptive family screening. The Committee is also concerned at the
absence of mechanisms to review, monitor and follow up adoptions, and of
statistics on foster care and adoption. [50] The Committee is concerned at
the increase in the prostitution and trafficking of children and women and
the absence of an effective, comprehensive and integrated approach to prevent
and combat these phenomena. The Committee is also concerned at the
insufficient data and awareness of the phenomena of commercial sexual
exploitation of children in Tajik
Officials Step Up Fight Against Human Trafficking The Dushanbe mayor's office has
set up a special commission to fight human trafficking, which officials say
has been increasing at an alarming rate.
Rajabmurod Tolibov, a member of the State Commission Against Human
Trafficking, told RFE/RL's Tajik Service that most of the victims of human
trafficking in Dushanbe are children and young women. The Tajik General-Prosecutor's
Office says that 24 criminal cases on the trafficking of children have been
opened during the past seven months.
Some Tajik 80 women who had reportedly fallen victim to traffickers have
been brought back from foreign countries in the past four years. Human
Trafficking Fuelled by Ignorance Gulchehra Mirzoeva, director of Modar,
an NGO that works on human trafficking, says most migrants do not have the
knowledge that they need to defend themselves abroad. Most of the million
migrant workers who leave Tajikistan every year do not know the language of
the country they end up in or its laws, she explains. That leaves them wide open to exploitation,
and the young are particularly at risk.
Mirzoeva believes that not enough is being done to raise awareness
among young people of the dangers of human trafficking. Criminal gangs are well aware of this
ignorance, and use it to “lure young people into slavery”, said Firuz Saidov,
an independent expert on social affairs. Japan appropriates
$1mn to combat human trafficking in Tajikistan The source drew attention to the
fact that the ILO and UNDP initiative is aimed at encouraging effort of all
national partners in the migration sphere in order to increase protection of
Tajik workers abroad and establish decent working conditions in the home
country. According to the ILO, pilot projects will be conducted in the Rasht
Valley (eastern Tajikistan), an economically underdeveloped area with the
highest migration rate in the country. According to the Tajik Labor and
Social Protection Ministry, about 600,000 Tajik workers are employed abroad. Human
Trafficking Business Booming In Tajikistan Twenty-six women were returned to The
Curse of Cotton: Central Asia's Destructive Monoculture The economics of
Central Asian cotton are simple and exploitative. Millions of the rural poor work for little
or no reward growing and harvesting the crop.
Forced and child labor and other abuses are common. Schoolchildren are still regularly required
to spend up to two months in the cotton fields in Domestic violence is another major issue in the region, and can be so severe that young wives in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan see no way out other than suicide - usually though the horrific method of self-immolation, which can result in terrible, if not fatal, injuries. Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide Stop
Violence Against Women – Country Page U.S. Library of Congress
- Country Study Human Rights
Overview - Tajikistan HUMAN TRAFFICKING - Human trafficking is a
significant problem in Tajikistan. According to the International
Organization for Migration, Tajikistan is a major country of origin for
trafficked women and children. Tajik authorities have undertaken some
positive steps to curb trafficking, including the creation of new
anti-trafficking department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In August
2003, Parliament adopted a bill criminalizing human trafficking, with
sentences from five to fifteen years. In December 2003, a Tajik woman was
sentenced to fourteen years in prison, and her property confiscated,
following conviction for trafficking women into the sex industry in the
United Arab Emirates. Four members of a trafficking group were convicted in
April 2004, and another fourteen cases have been opened by the Ministry of
Internal Affairs. Woman
jailed for forcing child into sex trade Last week a non-governmental
organisation said there was a growing trend in the abduction and sale of
Tajik boys for sexual exploitation abroad.
The Modar organisation said groups in the United Arab Emirates,
Turkey, Pakistan and other countries were prepared to pay as much as
$70 000 for a Tajik boy between the ages of 10 and 12. Tajikistan:
Human Trafficking A Growing Concern Madina remembers vividly her
ordeal at the hands of a human trafficker. This Tajik single mother was desperate
to secure a better life for herself and her two children. Responding to an
offer from a man she didn't know, she left Tajikistan with the hope of a
respectable job and a good salary. "I was working in a local
market [in Tajikistan]. One day a man talked to me and asked about my life. I
told him that it was too hard, that I had a lot of problems, that I had two
children and not enough money to feed them," she says. "I [am]
divorced from my husband. Then he said: 'If you want you can come with me abroad.
There are a lot of jobs [there] and I can help you to find one.' I believed
what he said and I followed him." Trafficking
in women is a problem for Tajikistan "The trafficking in women and
girls from Tajikistan for sexual exploitation is currently a problem. There
are cases in which some employment agencies, 'offering good jobs abroad',
actually buy young women in order to sell them to foreign partners as prostitutes.
These young women are turned into sex slaves once they arrive in another
country. The new 'owners' take their passports away to prevent them from
escaping. The women are raped, beaten and starved. Some women are paid for
their sex services, others are given a chance to buy their freedom, while
some are not paid at all," the report said, without giving any figures. IOM STUDY REVEALS
TRENDS IN TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN FROM TAJIKISTAN AUGUST 17, 2001 – (International Organization for
Migration – Dushanbe) An IOM study published today - "Deceived Migrants
from Tajikistan: A study in Trafficking in Women and Children" - reveals
that an estimated 1,000 women were trafficked from Tajikistan in the year
2000. Traffickers, usually Tajik women, rely on job promises carried by word
of mouth, the inexperience of victims and the support of a series of well
connected contacts, such as travel agencies and officials. The report also
found that although less frequent, abandoned children are also trafficked for
the purpose of sexual exploitation. All material used herein
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