Human Trafficking in [Tanzania Street Children in [Tanzania] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Tanzania] [other countries] |
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
first ten years of the 21st Century -
2000 to 2009
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 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Helping Children Reclaim Their Lives [PDF] www.tanzaniagateway.org/docs/reducing_childlabor_tanzania_through_Education.pdf In rural 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 www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/12/17/104460.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 Tanzania www.ginsc.net/main.php?option=view_article&mode=0&article=4825&lang=ge www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-12/2007-12-16-voa39.cfm?CFID=24449110&CFTOKEN=99111202 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 "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 ipp.co.tz/ipp/guardian/2004/06/25/14188.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Geoffrey Ijumba
from UNICEF in 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 [PDF] www.tanzaniagateway.org/docs/reducing_childlabor_tanzania_through_Education.pdf 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 as
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