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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Venezuela.htm
Venezuela is a source, transit, and destination country
for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual
exploitation and forced labor. Venezuelan women and girls are trafficked
within the country for commercial sexual exploitation, lured from poor
interior regions to urban and tourist areas such as Caracas and Margarita
Island. Victims are often recruited through false job offers, and
subsequently coerced into prostitution. Some Venezuelan children are forced
to work as street beggars or as domestic servants. Venezuelan women and girls
are trafficked transnationally for commercial
sexual exploitation to Mexico, in addition to Caribbean destinations such as
Trinidad and Tobago, the Netherlands Antilles, and the Dominican
Republic. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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CAUTION: The following links have been
culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Venezuela. Some of these links may lead to websites
that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false. No attempt has been made to validate their
authenticity or to verify their content. *** FEATURED
ARTICLE *** VenInfo.org, 2006 www.libertadlatina.org/LL_EN_News_06_2010.htm [accessed 16 January 2011] [scroll down] IS ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/venezuela.htm [accessed 16 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - 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/2005/61745.htm [accessed 16 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – There
were reports that the country was a source, destination, and transit country
for trafficked men, women, and children. An underdeveloped legal framework,
corruption among immigration authorities, and the ease with which fraudulent
passports, identity cards, and birth certificates could be obtained created
favorable conditions for trafficking. No overall statistics on trafficking
were available from government or NGO sources. Human rights NGOs received
complaints that women were trafficked to Europe for purposes of prostitution.
Subgroups particularly at risk included women from poor areas. Undocumented
or fraudulently documented Ecuadorian and Chinese nationals transited the
country and reportedly were forced to work off the cost of their
transportation in conditions of servitude. Organized criminal groups,
possibly including Colombian drug traffickers, Ecuadorian citizens, and
Chinese mafia groups, reportedly were involved in trafficking activities Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8 October 1999 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/venezuela1999.html [accessed 16 January 2011] [24] The Committee welcomes the measures taken to
eliminate irregularities in the procedures concerning adoption (e.g., direct
placement of children, known as entrega inmediata), but it remains concerned that the State party
has not reformed its domestic legislation relating to inter-country adoption
in accordance with the obligations established under the Hague Convention of
1993 on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of
Inter-country Adoption [33] While the Committee notes the
information submitted by the State party on the trafficking and sale of
Ecuadorian children and welcomes the measures undertaken by the State party's
authorities to combat this phenomenon, the Committee is of the opinion that
measures in this regard need to be strengthened. Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic,
Social, and Cultural Rights 21 May 2001 www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,CESCR,CONCOBSERVATIONS,VEN,3cc7f9e86,0.html [accessed 26 August 2011] [16] The Committee is alarmed about the high rate of
domestic violence and the extent of child prostitution and trafficking in
children, and regrets the lack of available statistics on the number of
street children. The Committee is deeply concerned about the extent of the
sex trade involving children and the inability of the State party to address
these issues. FM Rodríguez rejects OAS report
on human trafficking El Universal EU Daily News, english.eluniversal.com/2006/06/08/en_pol_art_08A719169.shtml [accessed 16 January 2011] Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Alí Rodríguez Araque Wednesday rejected as biased, influenced and
judgmental a report on Annual Report Of Activities By The Anti-Trafficking In
Persons Section Of The Organization Of American States - April 2005 To March
2006 [DOC] SIXTH MEETING OF MINISTERS OF JUSTICE OR OF MINISTERS OR
ATTORNEYS GENERAL OF THE AMERICAS, April 2005 to March 2006, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic, 13 April 2006 www.procuraduria.gov.do/PGR.NET/RemjaVI/Informes/Ingles.doc [accessed 16 January 2011] VENEZUELA - At its 35th regular session,
held in Fort Lauderdale, the General Assembly of the Organization renewed the
mandate of holding a Meeting of National Authorities on Trafficking in
Persons in its resolution AG/RES. 2118 (XXXV-O/05) “Fighting The Crime Of
Trafficking In Persons.” In turn, the OAS Permanent Council, meeting on
August 25, 2005, adopted the resolution “Convocation of the Meeting of
National Authorities on Trafficking in Persons,” CP/RES. 889 (1503/05), which
was later reviewed at the sessions held on November 30, 2005, and January 24,
2006, and in which it was agreed that the meeting would take place on Isla Margarita in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on
March 14-17, 2006. The meeting on Isla Margarita
was attended by national authorities from the member states, civil society,
and international agencies including the IOM, the ILO, and the UNODC; it was
also the first hemispheric forum at which the countries of the Americas met
to discuss issues related to the implementation of legal instruments for
tackling human trafficking, preventing the phenomenon, punishing traffickers,
providing protection and victim assistance, and exchanging information,
experiences, and international cooperation. One of the outcomes of this
meeting was the production of a document containing its conclusions and
recommendations, which will be presented at the REMJA VI meeting to be held
on April 24-26 next in the Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7733 [accessed 16 January 2011] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/americas/venezuela [accessed 16 January 2011] Library of Congress Call Number F2308 .W4 1993 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/vetoc.html [accessed 16 January 2011] Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation Between Survivors' Rights International SRI, July 17, 2003 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] BACKGROUND - Women and children are also
trafficked into VenInfo.org, 2006 www.libertadlatina.org/LL_EN_News_06_2010.htm [accessed 16 January 2011] [scroll down] IS What a difference a year makes: The Philip Stinard, VHeadline.com,
June 17, 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] Venezuelan Vice Foreign Minister Arevalo Mendez Romero was correct to brand this report as ?cynical and arrogant,? even
if you ignore that fact that the Venezuelan Statement to UN The Dominion Daily Weblog,
September 15, 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] The reason given to justify this
decision consists of an alleged negligence on the part of the Government of the
Domestic media spin suggests Cuba is trafficking teenage
women to Venezuela Patrick J. O'Donoghue,
VHeadline.com, August 27, 2003 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] In a misleading title Venezuelan
tabloid El Mundo reads: report reveals sexual trafficking
from The report does not offer proof or
confirm the spin that the Cuban government is responsible for the
trafficking, or maliciously that it forms part of the current cultural and
economic agreement signed by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez Frias. All material used herein
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