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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Tanzania.htm
Tanzania is a source, transit, and
destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes
of forced labor and sexual exploitation. The incidence of internal
trafficking is believed to be higher than that of transnational trafficking.
Tanzanian girls from rural areas are trafficked to urban centers and the
island of Zanzibar for domestic servitude; some domestic workers fleeing
abusive employers fall prey to forced prostitution. Tourist hotels reportedly
coerce some girls employed as cleaning staff into prostitution. Boys are
trafficked within the country for forced labor on farms, in mines, in the
informal business sector, and possibly on small fishing boats. Smaller
numbers of Tanzanian children and adults reportedly are trafficked to
surrounding African nations, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom,
Sweden, and possibly other European countries for domestic servitude and
sexual exploitation. - U.S. State
Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Helping Children Reclaim Their Lives [PDF] 14 February 2006 www.tanzaniagateway.org/docs/reducing_childlabor_tanzania_through_Education.pdf [accessed 28 December 2010] In rural DETRIMENTAL WORKING CONDITIONS - Commercial agriculture in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/tanzania.htm [accessed 28 December 2010] 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 Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61596.htm [accessed 28 December 2010] 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) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8 June 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/tanzania2001.html [accessed 28 December 2010] [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. Diverse Human Trafficking Trends in East African Region
Highlights Urgent Need for Greater Protection International Organization for Migration IOM, 12-10-2010 www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/media/press-briefing-notes/pbnAF/cache/offonce/lang/en?entryId=28484 [accessed 20 December 2010] In Adult victims were identified in
the domestic sector, as well as the mining, agricultural and hospitality
industries. The IOM assessment established
that Ugandan children are trafficked to all the countries in the region with
Uganda also a destination for trafficked victims from Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda. Trafficking in humans: Another threat calling for public
intervention Bilham Kimati,
Guardian, 17 December 2007 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] Habiba Shegere,
14, (not her real name also an orphan) from 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 Lisa Schlein, Voice of www.ginsc.net/main.php?option=view_article&mode=0&article=4825&lang=ge [accessed 28 December 2010] 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 impact [access information unavailable] "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 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7716 [accessed 28 December 2010] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/africa/tanzania-and-zanzibar [accessed 28 December 2010] The Guardian, 25 June 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may possibly
still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] Geoffrey Ijumba
from UNICEF in Wanyenda: A New Life for a Child Victim of
Prostitution Rose www.dol.gov/ilab/grants/sga0106/Tanzania-FeatureStory-Wanyenda.htm [accessed 28 December 2010] 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 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 [PDF] 14 February 2006 www.tanzaniagateway.org/docs/reducing_childlabor_tanzania_through_Education.pdf [accessed 28 December 2010] In rural DETRIMENTAL WORKING CONDITIONS - Commercial agriculture in U.N. Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=45464 [accessed 28 December 2010] Kena, 13, left her home in the
northeastern Tanzanian port town of At first, life in 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). U.N. Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=32259 [accessed 28 December 2010] 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 All material used herein
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