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The United Kingdom
(UK) is a significant destination and, to a lesser extent, transit country for
women, children, and men trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual
exploitation and forced labor, primarily from Eastern Europe, Africa, the
Balkans, and Asia (principally China, Vietnam, and Malaysia). Some victims,
including UK-resident children, are also trafficked within the country.
Migrant workers are trafficked to the UK for forced labor in agriculture,
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Emily Dugan, The Independent, 13 August
2007 www.alternet.org/economy/59724/britain%27s_invisible_labor_force%3A_african_children/ [accessed 19 April 2012] Dragan Nastic, UNICEF Nigeria is believed
to be the main source country on the continent, where destitute families are
either paid for their children or persuaded to give them away believing that
they will receive an education and a better life in the UK. On arrival, children as young as 10 are
kept undercover from British society and forced to work as domestic slaves or
prostitutes. Behind closed and often locked doors, they work long days for no
money, are kept from school and beaten if the work is not done. ***
ARCHIVES *** NSPCC opens first Press Release, 8 October 2007 www.ecpat.net/ei/Resource_newsclippings.asp?id=7 [accessed 2 January 2011] The NSPCC today (8
October 2007) launches the first advice and information line to protect
children trafficked to the “Identifying
trafficked children can be very difficult, even for a professional working in
social services or immigration. These children are incredibly vulnerable –
they might be regularly beaten, raped, denied food and basic comforts, and
have no access to healthcare or an education.
Trafficked children have often lost their trust in adults because of
the abuse they have suffered. They are afraid to ask for help for fear of
retaliation from their trafficker or being treated as criminals by the 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/2005/61683.htm [accessed 2 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Women were trafficked for sexual exploitation from Central and Eastern
Europe (primarily the Balkans and the former Soviet Union) and Asia,
including Trafficking victims
were most often subject to debt bondage, the withholding of travel documents,
false information about law enforcement and immigration penalties, or threats
of violence against them or their families. Traffickers less frequently
employed physical and sexual violence. Organized
international gangs allegedly were responsible for most trafficking for
commercial sexual exploitation. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] There were reports that children were trafficked into the country and
forced to work as domestic servants, beggars, pickpockets, drug couriers, or
in sweatshops and restaurants. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6
October 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/uk2000b.html [accessed 2 January 2011] [49] In the light
of the socio-economic situation in some of the more economically
disadvantaged 3/5 smuggled to UK for sex, servitude Press TV, Iran, Aug 26, 2012 www.presstv.com/detail/2012/08/26/258203/35-smuggled-to-uk-for-sex-servitude/ [accessed 27 August 2012] The United Kingdom
Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) said in its first official assessment of
human smuggling that 31 percent of the victims were targeted by sex gangs, 22
percent for Labour exploitation and 11 percent for
domestic servitude. The study was based
on data from police forces, the Gangmasters
Licensing Authority and the UK Border Agency, among others, also showed 17
percent of those smuggled into Britain were targeted for criminal
exploitation, five percent for multiple exploitation
and one percent for organ harvesting.
The report also found that 99 British citizens were also trafficked
inside the country in 2011 among them 52 for sexual exploitation with more
than 80 percent of them female children.
According to UKHTC, most victims of smuggling into Britain have been
from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Poland and Nigeria. Human trafficking gang sentenced to six
years NDS 7thspace.com/headlines/359712/uk_human_trafficking_gang_sentenced_to_six_years.html
[accessed 19 December 2010] The UK arm of the
gang, based in the Burngreave area of Sheffield,
had sought to lure genuine Polish workers to the UK on the promise of paid
work and a better life. In reality the workers would find themselves being
forced to work up to 12 hours a day and then housed in a derelict property at
night, unable to leave. The scam worked by
recruiting the workers via newspapers and the internet in Poland, and then
asking them to pay money up front for accommodation and the necessary
documentation they´d need to work in the UK - on average between £300-£500
each. On arrival they´d be picked up from the airport and then taken to the Halcar Tavern, Carwood Grove in
Worthing Herald, 21 May 2009 www.worthingherald.co.uk/news/local/worthing_care_home_couple_s_trial_for_human_trafficking_1_244508 [accessed 2 January 2011] David Scutt, prosecuting, said the couple were part of an
international trafficking network which lured poor Mauritian workers to the
country with the promise of wages four times what they could earn at home. CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW - He said a
recruitment agency on Mauritius provided cover letters allowing the workers
to enter the country as visitors – but, on arrival, they were put to work on
13-hour shifts caring for elderly people suffering from dementia, and paid
£450 a month – the sum they had been told would be their weekly wage. Migrants' work stocked supermarkets Martin Shankleman,
BBC employment correspondent, BBC News, 19 November 2008 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7738293.stm [accessed 2 January 2011] COORDINATED APPROACH - It was alleged
the workers, who had been recruited in eastern Europe, were trapped by the
gang who placed them in squalid accommodation and forced them to work for up
to 16 hours a day picking vegetables.
The UK Border Agency Regional Director, Simon Excell,
branded the gang's alleged actions a "modern form of slavery". "Human trafficking of any kind,
whether for sexual or labour exploitation, is an appalling crime where people
are treated as commodities and traded for profit," said Mr Excell. 'Sex slavery' gang jailed in child prostitution
case Rachel Williams and agencies,
guardian.co.uk, 4 November 2008 www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/04/sex-slavery-gang [accessed 2 January 2011] A gang of human
traffickers, brothel keepers and pimps received substantial jail terms
yesterday over the ordeal of a teenage virgin tricked into travelling to the Their Slovakian
victim had cried in the dock as she described spending nearly a year-and-a-half
working as a prostitute after being lured to Scores rescued from trafficking BBC News, 2 July 2008 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7485339.stm [accessed 2 January 2011] Police say 167
victims, including 12 children, have been rescued in a major crackdown on
human trafficking. DESPICABLE CRIME - The Home Office
said Operation Pentameter Two was the most successful effort of its
kind. The majority of victims rescued
originated from Women captured by
human traffickers can be forced to have sex with up to 40 men a day by
violent pimps, police said. VICTIMS REMOVED - But Home Office
Minister Vernon Coaker said about half of the
victims had refused to cooperate with the authorities. The problem was
worse among child victims who were told by those exploiting them that it was
not in their best interests to co-operate. Man Jailed For 'Horrific' Trafficking
Offences 4RFV, www.4rfv.co.uk/nationalnews.asp?id=78363 [accessed 2 January 2011] Victims were
brought into the Moldovan sex slaves released in tiraspoltimes.com, Apr 22, 2008 www.netnewspublisher.com/moldovan-sex-slaves-released-in-uk-human-trafficking-raids/ [accessed 2 January 2011] A group of girls
from EUROPE'S LARGEST
SEX-TRAFFICKER -
Human trafficking networks and sex slavery gangs bring young women to the Human trafficking rife in borough, says
report Hannah Crown, www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/2184518.human_trafficking_rife_in_borough_says_report/ [accessed 2 January 2011] Human trafficking
is rife in It reveals a
shocking range of offences including sexual exploitation, ritual abuse,
forced labour, domestic servitude, forced marriages, and benefit fraud. The study also says there is a lack of hard
evidence on the issue and said the borough's counter-trafficking response was
"greatly impeded" by a lack of clear policy and a "pervasive
attitude that it was someone else's problem". Fighting the evil new slave trade Michael Kelly, Sunday Sun, 2 March 2008 [accessed 3 January 2011] Most of the women
have been tricked into coming into the The other side of
trafficking is worker exploitation.
All kinds of people, including children, are smuggled illegally into
the The Child Slaves - Criminals turn from
drugs to trafficking Kate Smith, Herald www.heraldscotland.com/the-child-slaves-1.828431 [accessed 3 January 2011] Child-trafficking
in Despite the The Met's Human Trafficking Team (HTT) has
had its first human trafficking sentencing LAWFUEL, Legal Newswire, 16 February 2008 www.lawfuel.com/show-release.asp?ID=17055 [accessed 3 January 2011] In interview the
victim, at the time 31 years old, told police that she knew both Saisho YANKOV (male) and Asie
ISUFOVA (female) from On the fifth day
they told her the only work they had been able to find was prostitution. She
told them she didn't want to do this but YANKOV then made threats against her
family back in Children for sale: David Harrison, The Telegraph, 27 Jan 2008 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576727/Children-for-sale-UKs-new-slave-trade.html [accessed 3 January 2011] The illicit trade
in children - sold by their parents, some while still babies, to criminal
gangs and people traffickers - has been uncovered by a Sunday Telegraph
investigation. An undercover reporter
was offered several children for sale by their parents in Impoverished
African parents are being lured by the traffickers' promises of "a
better life" for their children, thousands of miles away in cities
including Sex Slaves Bought For £7000 Freed In Police
Raid Tom Hamilton, Daily Record, Dec 27 2007 [accessed 3 January 2011] Three women held as
sex slaves in The Tales of sex and sadness from inside Amelia Hill, The Observer, 23 December 2007 www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/dec/23/communities.socialexclusion [accessed 3 January 2011] 'I'D BEEN DREAMING OF A FUTURE AS A WIFE AND A MOTHER' - 'I had been working
as a waitress, dreaming of a future as a wife and mother,' 'He beat me and
made me live with another girl who spied on me. She wouldn't leave me for a
second and reported to this man if I did anything that looked like trying to
escape. He forced me to work in the brothel, but the clients complained because
I just cried all the time. The manager asked me what was wrong. I didn't have
the language to express myself, but eventually I managed to explain. I don't
think she felt sorry for me, but she saw that I wasn't going to earn her
brothel any money because I would never willingly work. She helped me to
escape and I went to the police. This has damaged my life in all directions.
I have no dreams now and no hopes. I have nothing.' Helping children turn life around Paul McMillan, Evening Chronicle, Dec 10
2007 [accessed 3 January 2011] While runaways and
vulnerable children are not new, the spectre of
people trafficking has reared its head on Tyneside
in recent years. In March this year
a report by ECPAT – End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the
Trafficking of Children – revealed 13 youngsters, including Chinese and Somalians, had flown into Three Chinese girls
– Weng Mei Fang, 16, Lin Xiu
Ming, 17, and He Yun Jin, 17 – disappeared from Elswick
Lodge hostel in Park Close, Elswick, Police uncover human trafficking misery Michael Howie, Home Affairs Correspondent,
The Scotsman, 05 December 2007 news.scotsman.com/prostitution/Police-uncover-human-trafficking-misery.3587165.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] A Romanian woman
who was raped and forced to work as a prostitute is among 20 victims of human
trafficking identified by police in the central belt in the past eight weeks. Most of the women
are from the Far East - mainly A barbaric trade in human misery right on
our doorsteps Chris Bond, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/A-barbaric-trade-in-human.3490580.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] "One of the
first victims we helped in the "She was
phoned up by someone and asked if she would like to sell ice cream for the
summer in British Police Crack Down on Human
Trafficking Mandy Clark, Voice of www.voanews.com/content/a-13-2007-11-13-voa51-66802857/373948.html [accessed 3 January 2011] Joanne says she was
freed after 11 months because her health began to fail and she was no longer
of use to her trafficker. She says he let her go, but gave her devastating
news. "He said, 'I have HIV and I'm pretty sure I have infected you.' I
went to a clinic and found out I was HIV positive which leads to AIDS and I
totally lost my mind." Sold into slavery The Northern Echo, 17th October 2007 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/1765911.sold_into_slavery/ [accessed 3 January 2011] At the back is a
young Chinese woman, the wife of the owner who was sold to him for £10,000.
She works as his slave in sweatshop conditions and is regularly beaten. It is
one of these beatings which will eventually lead to her death. "We found she was suffering from
trench foot and she had been kept in a box six feet by six feet,"
recalls Grahame Maxwell, Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police and programme director for the UK Human Trafficking Centre
(UKHTC) in The www.derryjournal.com/journal/Derry-charity-worker-welcomes-team.3360263.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] "The numbers
are quite significant and it is growing. This place is ripe for it at the
minute because it is very easy for people to be in the shadows. Between the
last two to four months people have been coming to us that have been
abandoned - we try to ensure that they are safe and secure. We have to identify
where they come from - a lot don't want to get into trouble. They have left
their families behind in often small villages and don't want to give too much
information about the traffickers because they are worried about what will
happen to their families." The
charity worker said once the problem is exposed they easily disappear. "That is the worrying thing - often we
don't know where they go. They are cases for concern because of the
duplication of identification, the language difficulty and the fear factor." Police unite to tackle human trafficking [video] STV video [accessed 3 January 2011] Anna was promised a
better life far from her home in Albania - but then forced into having sex
with up to 30 strangers each and everyday. She said: "You
have to work even if you're sick they don't care - you just have to make the
money for them because they need cars then need nice houses, nice
clothes." National police campaign to target sex
trafficking Matthew Weaver and agencies, The Guardian,
3 October 2007 www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/oct/03/ukcrime.prisonsandprobation [accessed 3 January 2011] The government
estimates that up to 4,000 women and girls are forced into prostitution after
being trafficked from abroad. Last
year Pentameter rescued 88 women and girls, including some as young as 14,
who had been forced into the sex industry. Crime gangs 'expand sex slavery into
shires' Sean O’Neill, Crime Editor, The Times,
September 28, 2007 [accessed 28 August 2012] Immigration from
Eastern Europe has brought a supply of women deceived into thinking good jobs
await them. Instead they are sold to vice gangs for £500 and forced into
prostitution. An investigation by The Times has found that one rural force
has identified 80 brothels this year. What is less
expected is that the brothel where she was kept as a sex slave is not in Port is prime target for child traffickers Ceri Rees, Daily Echo,
27th September 2007 www.thisisdorset.net/news/1720518.port_is_prime_target_for_child_traffickers/ [accessed 3 January 2011] Criminal gangs are
targeting vulnerable ports, such as Poole, to traffic children they can
exploit for labour and illegal activity into the Trafficked children 'should remain' Metro, 20 Sep 2007 www.metro.co.uk/news/66849-trafficked-children-should-remain [accessed 3 January 2011] Children trafficked
into "It should
meet victim's needs and should not be granted in exchange for co-operation
with the law-enforcement authorities.
"The length of the permit should be compatible with the best
interests of the child." Children trafficked from Asia to Nina Lakhani, The
Independent, 23 September 2007 [accessed 3 January 2011] Hundreds of young
children illegally trafficked into the Gangs can reap up
to £300,000 profit a year from a three-bedroom house converted into a
cannabis factory. Children are brought in by gangs to tend the plants. Many
have been found unable to escape through doors or windows sealed and wired to
give off dangerous electric shocks. Others fear reprisals against relatives
if they try to escape. Police are currently raiding up to three houses a day
where children are being discovered Police chiefs told to declare war on organised people trafficking Sean O’Neill, The Times, September 20, 2007 www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2493384.ece [accessed 3 January 2011] — More than 10,000
women from Eastern Europe, Africa and the — Groups of
Romanian children are being smuggled into the country and forced to earn
their keep as pickpockets in — Unknown numbers
of men and women, many from Asia, are enslaved as bonded labour to pay off
debts of up to £10,000 to the criminal syndicates that smuggled them into
Britain; Ms Spence, who has produced a detailed report on the impact of
demo-graphic change on policing in her county, said that the Government was
out of touch with what was happening. Sex workers helping with human trafficking Source: Town Crier - Northants,
[accessed 3 January 2011] Sex workers have
given police vital information to help with a crackdown on the human
trafficking trade in Cambridgeshire. The established sex workers have told
police working on Operation Radium that they want to help young girls being held
prisoners as sex slaves by criminal gangs working in the county. Emily Dugan, The Independent, 13 August
2007 www.alternet.org/economy/59724/britain%27s_invisible_labor_force%3A_african_children/ [accessed 19 April 2012] Dragan Nastic, UNICEF Nigeria is believed
to be the main source country on the continent, where destitute families are
either paid for their children or persuaded to give them away believing that
they will receive an education and a better life in the UK. On arrival, children as young as 10 are kept
undercover from British society and forced to work as domestic slaves or
prostitutes. Behind closed and often locked doors, they work long days for no
money, are kept from school and beaten if the work is not done. 'Evil and disgusting' trade in sex slaves The Evening Telegraph, 06th August 2007 www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/environment/evil_and_disgusting_trade_in_sex_slaves_1_82719 [accessed 3 January 2011] Sickened police
officers visited 36 suspected city brothels in a matter of weeks in search of
human sex slaves. Their campaign –
Operation Radium – was launched in May in a bid to identify 100 of the
establishments in Cambridgeshire and find out if
they were selling the services of kidnapped foreign women. In the space of just six months, a total of
seven women – five in Human trafficking: Case studies Peterborough Evening Telegraph, August 6,
2007 www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/environment/human-trafficking-case-studies-1-82718 [accessed 4 September 2012] Victim A managed to
escape from a horrific cycle of abuse which involved being beaten and raped
up to 25 times a day after she climbed through the window of a Two arrested for human trafficking Edward Chadwick, The www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/1583699.two_arrested_for_human_trafficking/ [accessed 3 January 2011] A Hungarian man and
his girlfriend have been arrested after a teenage girl they forced to work as
a prostitute was rescued from a A police source
said: "This young woman was duped in to coming to the country and has
been kept against her will. F1 fuels human trafficking, activists say The Gazette ( www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=2d953737-bd6e-4f81-b64c-c2755eb489cc [accessed 3 January 2011] Last year, Falling Short of the Mark: An International
Study on the Treatment of Human Trafficking Victims [PDF] The Future Group, March 2006 www.oas.org/atip/canada/Fallingshortofthemark.pdf [accessed 3 January 2011] UNITED KINGDOM - The United
Kingdom has failed to meet the international standards set in the Trafficking
Protocol related to the protection of victims of human trafficking, and is
currently reviewing its policy in this area in light of its recent
ratification of the Trafficking Protocol. It is also considering becoming a
signatory to the European Trafficking Convention. Trafficking victims are
dealt with on a case-by-case basis and routinely deported. Only minimal
support has been provided to victims in recent years, and only general laws
exist for their protection during investigations. RESIDENCE - The Authorities 'failing to stop child trafficking' Gemma onestopcafe.suddenlaunch3.com/index.cgi?board=mis&action=display&num=1180349592 [accessed 26 August 2011] A lack of police
and immigration officers is allowing the trafficking of children into Rape revealed human trafficking BBC News, 19 April 2007 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/6573725.stm [accessed 3 January 2011] SOLD SEVERAL TIMES - Mr Steer said that during her time in the UK the woman,
who suffers from epilepsy, was sold several times and operated in the
Manchester area, before she was finally trafficked to the restaurant. When she arrived in
the Police target global sex trafficking gangs Stefano Ambrogi
and John Sinnott, Reuters, London, 7 March 2007 uk.reuters.com/article/2007/03/07/uk-britain-trafficking-idUKL0773024320070307 [accessed 18 February 2013] Police launched a
special unit to target the growing menace of human trafficking in the capital
on Wednesday, vowing to smash foreign criminal gangs that sell their victims
into the sex trade or use them as forced labour. Many young women
smuggled illegally into the UK end up working as prostitutes while other
migrants are forced to work for little or no pay. Some victims, who
arrive penniless and unable to speak English, have been found to be as young
as 14. Citing an extreme
case, police said that hours after being sold at the
airport a young woman was raped by her new owners and then held in appalling
conditions at different locations where she was repeatedly gang-raped. "They (the
victims) have a really torrid time of it: they are duped and coerced into
coming to the UK with promises of a better life, a good job or
marriage," Metropolitan Police Commander Sue Wilkinson told reporters. "But instead,
they find that they've placed themselves into the hands of these ruthless
networks ... either in a situation of forced labour
or sex trade and have no idea how to get help." Paul Whitehouse, Yorkshire Post, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Britain39s-shame-over-21st-century.2077506.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] Britain is a key
staging point in a flourishing international slave trade that has seen up to
14,000 women and children brought here for the sex industry and vast numbers
enslaved in forced- labour rackets. A report by the
York-based Joseph Rowntree Foundation today reveals
modern-day slavery as a high-profit international trade and paints a damning
picture of the way the Government has dealt with the issue, which has
escalated over the past decade. Sex traffic: Danielle was 15 when she was
sold into slavery in the Sophie Goodchild
and Kurt Barling, The Independent, 25 February 2007 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/sex-traffic-danielle-was-15-when-she-was-sold-into-slavery-in-the-uk-437760.html [accessed 3 January 2011] Danielle was
excited at the prospect of leaving her home in Danielle suspected
nothing until the stranger took her passport once they passed through customs
and left her with two Albanians and a Lithuanian woman. It turned out that
she had been sold for £3,500. The "holiday job" was working in a
brothel in Stories of human trafficking The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk/slideshow/page/0,,2013927,00.html [accessed 3 January 2011] [roll mouse over
images to reveal the story behind each image] Amnesty
International, Anti-Slavery International, London-based feminist charity
Eaves and Unicef Here is a selection
of photographs from the exhibition and the stories behind the images. Sex trade moves its modern-day slaves into
the suburbs David Harrison, The Telegraph, 18 Feb 2007 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1543012/Sex-trade-moves-its-modern-day-slaves-into-the-suburbs.html [accessed 3 January 2011] Graeme Maxwell,
Yorkshire police's deputy chief constable and programme
director for the UK Human Trafficking Centre, said: "The traffickers and
pimps are taking the girls to rented flats and houses in areas all over the Latest anti-human trafficking tactics
shared at seminar Elysa Batista, www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/jan/26/latest_antihuman_trafficking_tactics_shared_semina/?local_news [accessed 3 January 2011] In Tyneside centre of slave-girls scam Paul McMillan, The Evening Chronicle, Jan
15 2007 [accessed 3 January 2011] Among its findings,
under-age forced marriages of Somali girls were confined to Trafficking victims to get housing and
medical aid Patrick Wintour,
political editor, The Guardian, 13 January 2007 www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/jan/13/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices [accessed 3 January 2011] Victims of human
trafficking in As many as 4,000
victims of trafficking - mainly young women - were involved in enforced prostitution
in Tories call for action on human trafficking Elsa McLaren and agencies, Britain Times
Online, January 03, 2007 fightforjustice.blogspot.com/2007/01/tories-call-for-action-on-human.html [accessed 3 January 2011] The Conservatives
argue that removal centres, like the one in Harmondsworth, West Drayton, The party cited the
Poppy Project as better practice. Under that scheme victims of trafficking
for prostitution are placed in a 25-bedroom safe house and given a 28-day
period of reflection. If they decide to co-operate with a prosecution, they
can stay for up to 12 weeks before being deported. Bishop of Maria Mackay, Christian Today, December 21,
2006 [accessed 3 January 2011] The Bishop of
Liverpool has called on the government to ratify the 2005 Council of Europe
Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, which includes
measures to protect and support victims of trafficking. And Europe and the MPs urge immediate action on human
trafficking humantrafficking.org, October 18, 2006 --
Adapted from: "Sex trafficking 'must be tackled'" BBC News. 13
October 2006 www.humantrafficking.org/updates/434 [accessed 3 January 2011] "We should recognise women trafficked for prostitution through deception,
fear and violence as victims of this serious crime, and not immigration
offenders or criminals themselves. "Of even
greater concern is the lack of knowledge we have of the extent of the
trafficking of young children for domestic servitude or, even worse, labour
in the drugs trade." South African Press Association SAPA & Agence France-Presse AFP, www.iol.co.za/news/world/europe-s-first-human-trafficking-centre-opens-1.296106 [accessed 3 January 2011] "Some victims
do not even realise they are being trafficked until
they arrive and then find the job they were being promised as a waitress
turns out to be enforced servitude as a prostitute, including being beaten
and raped. "Today in Human trafficking problems in Scotland United Press International UPI, Edinburgh,
24 September 2006 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] McCormack, the head
of the organized immigration crime team, said a new trend is emerging, with
children from Caught in traffic Kate Foster with additional reporting by
Arthur MacMillan, news.scotsman.com/prostitution/Caught-in-traffic.2813071.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] The situation is
chilling - police and council officials openly admit they are not yet in a
position to be sure of the scale of the problem in Scotland - but they have
seen enough to know that foreign girls as young as 12 are being prostituted
north of the Border. They warn that The first signs of What sickens those
trying to tackle the problem most is the age of the girls involved. Teenagers
under the age of 16 are, police are now certain, being held captive in
private flats, and their pimps are seeking punters from the local population.
This is something which sickens those trying to tackle the problem. Human trafficking: the dark side of the EU
dream Ben Nimmo,
Deutsche Presse Agentur, rawstory.com/news/2006/Human_trafficking_the_dark_side_of__09222006.html [accessed 3 January 2011] The expansion of
the European Union in Central and The route to hell Louisa Waugh, The Scotsman, 22 August 2006 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] The majority of sex
workers in Charities criticise
government indifference to child trafficking Harvey Thompson, World Socialist Web Site
WSWS, 26 July 2006 wsws.org/articles/2006/jul2006/chld-j26.shtml [accessed 3 January 2011] Trafficked children
are transported from all over Africa, The victims are
often smuggled into Children from Eastern European
children tend to be used to beg and steal. Many more children are expected to
be used to these ends next year when Child Trafficking in the Ambrose Musiyiwa
(amusiyiwa), OhmyNews,
2006-07-25 Click [here]
to connect. The URL is not shown
because of its length [accessed 3 May 2012] She was a teenage
orphan living on the streets of True to his word,
her "savior" brought her into the Three months later,
when the 16-year-old Kenyan girl became pregnant, she was forced to continue
sleeping with a succession of men until she was almost due to give birth. The
heavily pregnant teenager was then removed from the brothel, driven out of
the town where she had been held, and dumped many miles away on the streets
of Hundreds of Child Slaves Trafficked into Martin Croucher,
Epoch Times en.epochtimes.com/news/6-6-6/42400.html [accessed 3 January 2011] Hundreds of
children as young as six years old are being trafficked into The parents of the
children 'sell' their children to the traffickers, sometimes for sums up to
£3000, believing that they are going to a better life. They are brought in on
fake passports and put to work immediately. 'Slaves auctioned' by traffickers BBC News, 4 June 2006 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5046170.stm [accessed 3 January 2011] COFFEE SHOP AUCTION - A CPS conference
on Monday is to discuss airport crime, and its director in west "We are now
seeing 'slave auctions' being held in public places at airports where brothel
keepers are bidding for women destined for prostitution." Appeal over NI human trafficking BBC News, 22 May 2006 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/5006460.stm [accessed 3 January 2011] There has been a
call for more resources to help stamp out people trafficking in Scotland's sex trade goes deeper
underground - Shock Scale Of Sick Trade Scottish Daily Record & Sunday,
February 22, 2006 fleshploitation.blogspot.com/2006/02/scotlands-sex-trade-goes-deeper.html [accessed 4 September 2012] We were told by the
girls how they were duped into applying for college places or jobs, then
stripped of their passports and passed from gang to gang and city to city. Many had no idea
where they were staying. Chief among the
slave traders are Lithuanian, Russian and the Albanian crime gangs so vicious
that even hardened Scottish criminals give them a wide berth. Richard Elias, Daily Record, Feb 22 2006 www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/2006/02/22/scotland-s-6000-sex-slaves-86908-16731536/ [accessed 3 January 2011] Brutal gangsters
imprison the terrified girls in brothels, rape them repeatedly to break their
spirits, and force them to have sex with up to 60 men each per day. Around
7000 women in Skelly said:
"Trafficked girls do not work on the street because there is a lack of
control there for the gangs.
"Instead, the girls are kept as virtual prisoners inside a house
or a sauna, where they are much easier to keep an eye on. They work very long
hours and are hardly allowed out at all." Many of the girls are virgins when they
arrive and the crooks gangrape them to "break
them in". Rape is also used as a
punishment for girls who disobey. Young women being trafficked into capital
to work as sex slaves Raymond Hainey,
The Scotsman, news.scotsman.com/edinburghssexindustry/Young-women-being-trafficked-into.2751914.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] In the other case,
a Lithuanian woman was lured to Her story came to
light after she was moved to Trafficked women tricked into prostitution Tryst Williams, Western Mail, Feb 7 2006 [accessed 3 January 2011] Eastern European
women have spoken of how they were duped into a life of prostitution on the
streets of One young woman
told the Week In Week Out team how she came to the Consultation on UK’s First National Action
Plan to Tackle Human Trafficking M2 Presswire, 5
January 2006 Click [here]
to connect. The URL is not shown
because of its length [accessed 19 April 2012] The Government’s
commitment to tackle the appalling modern day slave trade of human
trafficking moved up a gear today as Home Office Minister Paul Goggins launched a public consultation on a national
action plan which will build upon existing tough anti-trafficking measures. The consultation
paper outlines the work the Government has done so far to tackle human
trafficking, from legislation and law enforcement to support for victims, and
proposes an action plan for areas of future work. This plan will take a
comprehensive end-to-end approach covering the different elements of the
anti-trafficking strategy. Traffickers face action to curb sex trade David Harrison, The Telegraph, 01 Jan 2006 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1506740/Traffickers-face-action-to-curb-sex-trade.html [accessed 4 January 2011] The Government will
this week announce a crackdown on the sex trafficking gangs which bring
thousands of young women to The "action
plan" follows the Sunday Telegraph's undercover investigations into the
cruel and fast-growing trade condemned as "21st century slavery". Terry Vanderheyden,
LifeSiteNews, www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2006/mar/06030209 [accessed 4 January 2011] Of the countries
evaluated: 'I was raped and beaten. I lost the will to
run away' David Harrison, The Telegraph, 13 Nov 2005 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1502857/I-was-raped-and-beaten.-I-lost-the-will-to-run-away.html [accessed 4 January 2011] Working at two
flats and a "massage parlor" six days a week, she charges
£150-£400, depending on the time and services supplied - but has to hand over
almost all the money to her Russian pimp.
She is one of thousands of vulnerable young girls who have been
trafficked to Man denies trafficking prostitute BBC News, 10 November 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4426268.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] The jury was told
on Thursday that the three Albanian men bought the woman in Sex trafficking gang sent to jail BBC News, 1 December 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4487712.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] The police launched
Operation Rotunda in December 2004 after receiving a tip-off from the BBC's
Six O'Clock News, which had started an
investigation into the disappearance of a 16-year-old Lithuanian girl. The BBC learned the girl was ringing her
parents from An undercover
operation, lasting four months, revealed the scale of the operation and
revealed evidence of a number of women being forced to work as prostitutes
against their will, including one teenager who had been a virgin before she
was trafficked to the Sex-trafficked victims to be offered refuge Jenifer Johnston, Sunday Herald, 06
November 2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] It is thought
between 2000 and 6000 women and girls are trafficked into the Sex-trade children flown to region Paul Jeeves, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Sextrade-children-flown-to-region.1249308.jp [accessed 4 January 2011] Global crime syndicates
have begun to use Immigrants tell of forced prostitution and
slavery as trafficking gang is jailed Rosie Cowan, crime correspondent, The
Guardian, 2 November 2005 www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/nov/02/immigration.ukcrime [accessed 4 January 2011] Detectives believe
the gang brought at least 600 illegal immigrants to the Sex trade gang 'beggared belief' BBC News, 18 October 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/4353344.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] Sentencing, Judge
Barber said: "Their behavior absolutely beggared belief, they had taken
two young Lithuanian girls and transported them to Safety Fears For Women Rescued In Joint news release: Amnesty International
and Anti-Slavery International, 4 October 2005 old.antislavery.org/archive/press/pressrelease2005UKrescue.htm [accessed 4 January 2011] There is serious
concern over the treatment of the 19 women rescued from a Young Women Forced into Prostitution in the
LifeSiteNews, www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2005/oct/05100304 [accessed 4 January 2011] A special task
force of female officers led 19 women out of the Cuddles massage parlor in CPS continues fight against sex trade
traffickers The Crown Prosecution Service CPS, 16
September 2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] The latest Crown
Prosecution Service case against human traffickers ended today with the
sentencing of Viktoras Larcenko,
the last member of a gang convicted for smuggling girls from Man in sex slave case 'kind with a purpose' At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] The woman, who
worked as a teacher and gym instructor in 'Child sacrifices in Richard Edwards Crime Reporter, www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-19328071-child-sacrifices-in-london.do [accessed 4 January 2011] Boys from Africa
are being murdered as human sacrifices in What s New section: The People Traffickers [PDF] -- Source: The People Traffickers, The stopvaw.org/sites/3f6d15f4-c12d-4515-8544-26b7a3a5a41e/uploads/10-6-05.pub.pdf [accessed 4 January 2011] [page 5 and
continued on pages 8 to 12] Lithuanian
authorities believe native gangs are recruiting and organizing the
trafficking of women to the Police criticized for leaving pimp to rape
girl Vikram Dodd, The Guardian,
25 May 2005 At one time this article had been archived and
may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] A judge called
yesterday for an inquiry into police blunders which left a pimp free to
repeatedly rape and beat a teenage girl and force her to work as a
prostitute. Agrol
Xhabri, 22, was jailed for 12 years after abducting
the 17-year-old Latvian girl from her father's house in east Freedom for Thai sex slave women May 3 2005 -- Source: icSurreyOnline www.genderberg.com/phpNuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=122 [accessed 4 January 2011] Police who raided
the brothel, which was less than a mile from the town centre, uncovered
information about a sophisticated prostitution gang that illegally brings
girls from Asia into the Government officials in sex trafficking
ring arrested - Horrifying testimony of woman
sex-slave traded for a Mercedes shakes political establishment of Yugoslav
republic Vesna Peric
Zimonjic, Independent, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] The arrests are
only a small part of the scandal, according to sources in the Montenegrin
capital, Podgorica. It is an open secret in the
Balkans that people-trafficking rings run through The sex-slave
routes lead to Hundreds of children 'vanishing' BBC News, 13 May, 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4541603.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] Between July and
September 2001, 300 had disappeared, and police fear thousands may go missing
annually. Child welfare experts say
the figures hint at the scale of child trafficking, sometimes for labor or
benefit fraud. A previous BBC
investigation found some African children were being held by their parents'
creditors, so they could claim extra benefits. Slavery fears for 'lost' children Matthew Chapman, BBC Radio Five Live, 15
February, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] Neither the
Metropolitan Police or the Immigration Service would officially release the
findings but BBC Radio Five Live understands the children could not be found
at up to 30 of the addresses visited during that three month period. Police discovered that in some cases the
same address had been given by successive children who could not be traced. African trafficking ring linked to UK BBC News, 8 July, 2003 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] One father in Bafoussam said he cries every day for his missing
14-year-old daughter. He had persuaded
her to work as a babysitter for £10 a month after ill-health forced him to
give up his own job as a teacher. Far More Lithuanians Sold Into Prostitution
In Agence France-Presse AFP, 25-Feb-05 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] The number of young
Lithuanian women sold for sex in Britain has increased from "single
cases to dozens every month" since the Baltic state joined the European
Union last year, the head of Lithuania's Interpol bureau said. "Nightclub Girls Helped Me Escape
Captivity" The Star, www.thestar.co.uk/news/39Nightclub-girls-helped-me-escape.953265.jp [accessed 4 January 2011] The youngster, from
Tackle Child Exploitation, Ministers Urged Maggie Stratton, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Tackle-child-exploitation-Ministers-urged.951691.jp [accessed 4 January 2011] Based on reports
from social services, police and immigration, it is known at least 250
children were trafficked into the Migrants Subject To Forced Labor In The Union Network International UNI, 02/04/2005 www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-9316-f0.cfm [accessed 12 September 2011] This report reveals
that migrants who can legally work in this country are also shockingly badly
exploited because they are unable to enforce their legal rights because of
the power their employer has over them.
The report, 'Forced Labor and Migration to the UK' reveals abuse,
including very long hours, pay below the minimum wage and dangerous working
conditions in a range of sectors including construction, hospitality,
agriculture, food processing, horticulture, contract cleaning, nursing and
care homes. Employers and agencies who break the law are rarely prosecuted or even inspected
by the authorities. Migrant women forced into cheap sex trade Rosie Cowan, crime correspondent, The
Guardian, 11 February 2005 www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/feb/11/immigrationandpublicservices.immigration [accessed 4 January 2011] Sex Slaves Vice Baron Sentenced BBC News, 22 February, 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4288603.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] women kept by Ismailej, an illegal immigrant, were forced to work seven
days a week, for up to 13 hours a day, and give up their passports to satisfy
his "love of money". Brian
O'Neill, prosecuting, told the court that Ismailej
was the ringleader and that he did not regard the women as anything other
than chattels. The Felicity Lawrence, consumer affairs
correspondent, The Guardian, 2/3/2005 www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/feb/03/immigrationandpublicservices.politics [accessed 4 January 2011] A year ago this
Saturday, 23 Chinese cockle pickers died at It is not just the
sex industry that traffics and exploits migrants, but our key sectors - food
and agriculture, contract cleaning, hotels and catering, construction and
care homes. Moreover, the state uses migrants' forced labour in many cases -
when it outsources local authority care to the private sector, when it uses
agencies to recruit NHS nurses who end up living on £5 a week, when it uses
contract cleaners provided by the cheapest bidder for its offices, or when
subcontracted migrant labour is used on private finance initiative
construction. The Damning report on migrants delayed as
government fears poll backlash Hsiao-Hung Pai,
The Guardian, 3 February 2005 www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/feb/03/immigrationasylumandrefugees.immigrationandasylum [accessed 4 January 2011] The publication of
a ground-breaking report on forced labour and the exploitation of migrant
workers in It catalogues
coercive techniques used by private employers to force migrants to work for
low wages and in poor conditions, from physical and sexual violence to debt
bondage and blackmail. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil
Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/united-kingdom [accessed 28 June 2012] Human
Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/united-kingdom [accessed 4 January 2011] Illegal migrant jailed for sex-slave ring Helen Nugent, Times Online, February 23,
2005 moderntribalist.blogspot.com/2005/02/illegal-immigration-and-sex-slavery.html [accessed 3 May 2012] An illegal
immigrant who made a fortune from trafficking East European sex slaves was
jailed for 11 years yesterday. Vullnet Ismailaj, 27, an
Albanian, smuggled scores of young Lithuanian women into Slavery 'worse than ever' - Hague BBC News, 25 January, 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4204675.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] There is more
slavery now than there was at the height of the slave trade, former
Conservative leader William Hague has warned.
Mr Hague said criminal gangs were blighting
the Sex slaves trafficker is jailed for 18
years www.thestar.co.uk/news/Sex-slaves-trafficker-is-jailed.910281.jp [accessed 4 January 2011] Sex slaves
trafficker is jailed for 18 years An illegal immigrant has been jailed for 18
years for trafficking women from Eastern Europe and forcing them to work as prostitutes
in a Men jailed for selling teenager BBC News, 16 March, 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/4355805.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] Three illegal
immigrants have been jailed for a total of 40 years for selling a teenage
girl as a sex slave. The 16-year-old,
from Children groomed for sex trafficking Madeleine Brindley,
WalesOnline, Nov 9 2004 [accessed 4 January 2011] Children in Groundbreaking sentence increase for human
trafficker The Crown Prosecution Service CPS,
29/04/2004 www.cps.gov.uk/news/press_releases/118_04/ [accessed 4 January 2011] Roger Coe-Salazar,
District Crown Prosecutor for CPS Wood Green Trials Unit, said: "I did
not feel that the overall sentence of ten years adequately reflected the enormous
human misery he, and people like him, inflict on highly vulnerable young
women. Accordingly, we referred the matter to the Attorney General as an
'unduly lenient sentence' in the hope that the Court of Appeal would impose a
sentence that established a sentencing yard stick for this despicable crime.
We will continue with our work to seize the profits gained by Plakici through the exploitation of women." BBC News, 12 August, 2003 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3145687.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] TOURIST INFLUX - Last month the
BBC discovered an international child-trafficking ring based in Leading Joint statement by Amnesty International,
Anti-Slavery International, the National Federation of Women's Institutes and
UNICEF At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] Home Office
research in 2000, estimated that up to 1,420 women were trafficked into the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=50363 [accessed 12 September 2011] Malawian women are
targeted by trafficking groups because they do not require a visa to enter
the Upon arrival, as
the IOM discovered in the Raids net 13 suspected of human trafficking Sandra Laville,
The Guardian, November 5, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] They might be told
they are coming here to be a student, but they end up in bonded employment
working in a kitchen or as a fast food chef and paid minimal wages so they
can't discharge their debt. Child sex tourism One At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] CHILD SEX TOURISM - Child prostitutes' sad stories Kim Catcheside,
Social Affairs Correspondent, BBC News, 27 June, 2003 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3023874.stm [accessed 4 January 2011] They told Ms Turner
they had been kidnapped in She told
authorities that she and other girls had been picked up from local authority
hostels, and taken overland to UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=20782 [accessed 4 January 2011] Responding to a job
advertisement in a local paper, she accepted an au pair post in the "I borrowed
350 pounds and was given a menial job cleaning rooms in a small hotel. No one
wanted to hire me. I didn't have the right papers and I couldn't pay this
money back," she explained. Later, the Russian-speaking woman who had
met her at the airport introduced her to her Albanian boyfriend, who proposed
that Svetlana work at his sauna providing massages for visiting clientele.
"This was a shock for me. I didn't know what to do," she said.
"Suddenly I felt trapped." But Svetlana was
lucky. She was not subject to violence or rape when she refused to comply
with those who trafficked her to the UNICEF report reveals changing face of
child trafficking UNICEF via M2 Presswire,
July 29, 2003 www.unicef.org/media/media_13034.html [accessed 19 April 2012] The face of child
trafficking to the The report, Stop
the Traffic!, says that hundreds of known cases of trafficked children are
just the tip of the iceberg. Thousands may be trafficked to the The Government's
Sexual Offences Bill, currently in the House of Commons, makes it illegal to
traffic people into the Dying to Leave Thirteen, www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/dying-to-leave/human-trafficking-worldwide/united-kingdom/1473/ [accessed 26 December 2010] VICTIMS - Up to 15,000
women are trafficked annually into the Women from East
Asia, especially Women are not the
only victims. A 2003 UNICEF study determined that the While women and
children are trafficked primarily for sexual exploitation, men are exploited
in sweatshops or in the agricultural industry. The 58 Chinese men who died in
June 2000 while being smuggled into National Criminal Intelligence Service NCIS www.ncis.co.uk/ukta/2003/threat04.asp [access date unavailable] HUMAN TRAFFICKING 4.25 Human
trafficking is essentially concerned with the exploitation of migrants as a resource.
It takes various forms, including exploitation as cheap tied labour, for
example in illicit sweatshops producing counterfeit goods. However, many of
those who are trafficked are forced to work in the vice trade as prostitutes. TRAFFICKING FOR PROSTITUTION 4.26 Traffickers
use a number of methods to recruit migrants into the vice trade. Most involve
some form of deception, and exploit the lack of opportunities open to women
in source countries. Traffickers place advertisements in local newspapers and
media, advertising legitimate employment opportunities in the EU, for example
as maids, nannies, bar and catering staff, receptionists, clerical staff,
dancers and entertainers. Advertisements are also placed offering marriage
opportunities to women seeking EU husbands, and front agencies are also used
for this purpose. Other victims are knowingly recruited into the sex trade,
but are unaware of the conditions under which they will be forced to work.
Some trafficking victims are kidnapped, usually in the Balkans and Former
Soviet Union, but this is less common. TRAFFICKING IN
MINORS 4.33 Several
thousand unaccompanied minors arrive in the All
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