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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery United Republic of Tanzania [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The United Republic of Tanzania,
located in E Africa [map],
was formed in 1964 by the union of the republics of Tanzania is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Boys are trafficked within the country for forced labor on farms, in mines, and in the informal business sector. Tanzanian girls from rural areas are trafficked to urban centers and the island of Zanzibar for domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation; some domestic workers fleeing abusive employers fall prey to forced prostitution. In some regions, unregistered employment agencies are involved in recruiting minors from rural areas to work as house girls in the capital, where they are subject to exploitation. Tanzanian men are reportedly trafficked to South Africa for forced labor, and girls are trafficked to Oman, the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), and possibly other European or Middle Eastern countries for forced domestic labor and involvement in sexual exploitation. Small numbers of Somali children are trafficked to Tanzania for labor and sexual exploitation. Citizens of neighboring countries may be trafficked through Tanzania for forced domestic labor and sexual exploitation in South Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2008 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Helping
Children Reclaim Their Lives In rural Tanzania, one out of
three children between the ages of 10 and 14 work outside the family. They
labor as farm workers, miners, domestic servants, and prostitutes, often
under abusive and exploitive conditions. DETRIMENTAL WORKING CONDITIONS - Commercial agriculture in
Tanzania employs large numbers of these youngsters. They provide much of the
manual and machine-based labor on tobacco, coffee, tea, sugarcane, and sisal
plantations. (Sisal is a fibrous crop from which rope is manufactured.) For
example, in one area of the coastal region, 30 percent of the sisal
plantation workers are children aged 12 to 14. They labor up to 11 hours per
day with no specific rest periods, six days a week. Their wages are half that
of adults, while nourishment and lodging are inadequate. Only half have
completed primary school. Some plantations require as much as 14-, 16-, or
even 17-hour work days. Mines and quarries also employ large numbers of youth
who spend most of their days toiling above or below ground in very hazardous
conditions. They risk injury from dust inhalation, blasting, mine collapse,
flooding, as well as illness from silicosis. ***
ARCHIVES *** U.S. Dept
of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are reportedly trafficked internally to work in the
fishing industry, mines, commercial agriculture, and domestic service. Children are trafficked from rural areas
for exploitation in the commercial sex sector. It is reported that girls are trafficked
from Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Most
victims were trafficked internally; boys were trafficked for exploitative work
on farms, in mines, and in the large informal sector, while girls from rural
areas were trafficked to the towns for involuntary domestic labor. Many of
these domestic workers have fled abusive employers and turned to prostitution
for survival. Most victims came from the regions of Iringa, Mwanza, Dodoma
Kigoma, Children in low-income families
were at significant risk of being trafficked, and girls were more vulnerable
than boys since girls were considered more of an economic burden on their
families. Girls who completed primary school but did not enter secondary
school were at particularly high risk. The country was also experiencing a
boom in the number of child-headed households as more adults succumbed to
HIV/AIDS-related disease and death, leaving their dependents at very high
risk for child labor and trafficking. Trafficking methods varied. Some
trafficking victims left their homes with assistance from their family; some
left on their own to escape life in rural areas; and some were transported by
someone who had offered to help them find city work, legitimate or otherwise.
There were reports that men recruited village girls who had completed primary
school but were not entering secondary school. The men offered the girls
money and employment and promised the girls a better life if they accompanied
them to urban areas; however, these girls reportedly ended up in prostitution
or domestic labor. Another method of trafficking involved low-income parents
entrusting a child to a wealthier relative o r respected member of the
community, who was charged with caring for the child as one of his or her
own. Some persons took advantage of this traditional practice and placed the
child in a situation where he or she was at risk of being exploited or
abused. Sometimes placement and transport to households was organized by
small-scale freelance agents who recruited children from rural villages. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2001 [64] The Committee notes with
concern that there have been reported incidents of the sale, trafficking and
abduction of children, especially girls, primarily for domestic labor. Trafficking
in humans: Another threat calling for public intervention Habiba Shegere, 14, (not her real
name also an orphan) from Dodoma is one of the victims of human trafficking
brought to Dar es Salaam by a man who went to her village making all good
promises about prosperity in town. The man said he would take care of
the girl and enroll her with a tailoring vocational training college to help
her become a competent tailor, earn a living to support the grand parents
back in the village. She was taken to a strange family
instead of a tailoring school where she worked as a house maid for eight
months without being paid anything.
She worked for 18 hours a day no payment in return for explanation
that she took meals, shelter and better looking second-hand cloths from the
host family. After sometime someone
advised her to be bold enough to register complaints to the police. Unfortunately she ended up in more
misery than ever as the policeman found on duty was spiteful. He kept her
waiting for hours and finally advised her to accompany him to his house for
the night. After two weeks a concerned
neighbour reported the matter to the police and local leaders as she always
heard someone weeping in the house of the policeman. The local leaders forced open the door to
rescue Habiba who was found terribly depressed. She complained of serious abdominal pains.
She was taken to hospital only to be discovered that she had already been
infected with syphilis. IOM
Launches Campaign to Stop Human Trafficking in Tanzania Spokesman Jean-Philippe Chauzy
tells VOA most of the victims are young boys and girls that are trafficked
from rural to urban areas. "They
are routinely abused and exploited either as domestic workers or working in
commercial agriculture, in some cases, in fishing and mining
industries," said Jean-Philippe Chauzy. Migration body to monitor human
trafficking impact1 "Many girls are taken from
Iringa and brought to major cities to work as housegirls but they end up
being subjected to prostitution and other works which they did not expect,
this is internal trafficking," she said. Many young boys, she said, are
taken to work in the mining companies, something which not only denies their
rights but also are psychosocially affected. Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free Human Rights Overview
by Human Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide Tanzania blacklisted
over human trafficking Geoffrey Ijumba from UNICEF in Dar
es Salaam had wanted to know how the US could assist Tanzania with resources
to conduct research, surveillance and monitor TIP in the country. He said economic sanctions for failure to
curb TIP was not good, adding: “It will do more harm than good to the same
people we want to rescue. Instead,
Ijumba proposed more investment in education and legal system to ensure that
the problem of trafficking in persons is checked. Wanyenda:
A New Life for a Child Victim of Prostitution Wanyenda’s* ordeal dates back to
1997 when she was in her third year at the Igawilo primary school in the
Mbeya region of the southern highlands of Tanzania. Only 13 at that time, she
decided to drop out of school and leave home, like many of her friends before
her, to escape difficult living conditions. It happened one day when she was
going to school and met a boy from a nearby village who persuaded her to
escort him to the town where he lived. This boy, who was jobless, took her to
a slum area called Mabatini and she never came back. The boy would bring home two or
three of his friends and force Wanyenda to sleep with all of them for cash
payment. She was tortured, sexually abused and sometimes beaten by the boy if
she refused to provide the services. Whenever the boy was away, she received
customers on her own in order to earn some money for food. Helping
Children Reclaim Their Lives In rural Tanzania, one out of
three children between the ages of 10 and 14 work outside the family. They
labor as farm workers, miners, domestic servants, and prostitutes, often
under abusive and exploitive conditions. DETRIMENTAL WORKING CONDITIONS - Commercial agriculture in
Tanzania employs large numbers of these youngsters. They provide much of the
manual and machine-based labor on tobacco, coffee, tea, sugarcane, and sisal
plantations. (Sisal is a fibrous crop from which rope is manufactured.) For
example, in one area of the coastal region, 30 percent of the sisal
plantation workers are children aged 12 to 14. They labor up to 11 hours per
day with no specific rest periods, six days a week. Their wages are half that
of adults, while nourishment and lodging are inadequate. Only half have
completed primary school. Some plantations require as much as 14-, 16-, or
even 17-hour work days. Mines and quarries also employ large numbers of youth
who spend most of their days toiling above or below ground in very hazardous
conditions. They risk injury from dust inhalation, blasting, mine collapse,
flooding, as well as illness from silicosis. TANZANIA: Focus on
child labour Kena, 13, left her home in the
northeastern Tanzanian port town of Tanga two years ago. Coming from a poor
family, she was excited at the prospect of travelling, especially to a
distant place. Not only was she going to the country's commercial capital,
Dar es Salaam, but she had also been promised an education - something her
family could not afford. At first, life in Dar es Salaam
was good, and she was treated as one of the children in her new family, Kena
said. But not long after arriving in Tandika, one of the city's poorer
suburbs, she soon realised that she would not be spending her early mornings
walking to school. Instead, she was made to wash clothes, sweep the house and
cook for the two adults and four children she lived with. Despite being frequently abused
and beaten, Kena endured this treatment for 15 months, earning 2,500
shillings ($2.50) a month until she fled, eventually coming across a shelter
run by an organisation that cares for children who escape labour. MODERN-DAY SLAVERY - Mwaituka added that there was
also an increase in the number of girls being trafficked from various parts
of the country to Dar es Salaam, where they are sold to work as domestic
workers, sometimes for as little as 20,000 shillings ($20). TANZANIA: Child
labour common in Zanzibar A recent rapid assessment by the
International Labour Organisation (ILO), an associate organisation of the
United Nations, has found that child labour is "common" in
Zanzibar, with prostitution, fisheries and seaweed farming among the
"most hazardous" sectors in which children are involved. The report also found evidence of child
labour on clove plantations in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous island chain
within Tanzania, and in the hotel and tourism sector, for which it is also
famous, although the levels of child labour in these sectors were classified
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