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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Republic
of Yemen [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The Yemen is a country of origin for children,
mostly boys, trafficked for forced begging, forced unskilled labor, or forced
street vending. Yemeni children are trafficked across the northern border
into Saudi Arabia or to the Yemeni cities of Aden and Sana’a for forced work,
primarily as beggars. Unconfirmed estimates suggest that 10 Yemeni children
are trafficked into Saudi Arabia per day, according to the Ministry of Social
Affairs and Labor. Some of these children may be sexually exploited in
transit or once they arrive in Saudi Arabia. To a lesser extent, Yemen is
also a source country for women and girls trafficked internally and possibly
to Saudi Arabia for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, as well as
a possible destination country for women from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and
the Philippines. Yemeni girls are trafficked within the country for
commercial sexual exploitation; one study by ILO-IPEC indicates that girls as
young as 15-yearsold are exploited for commercial sex in hotels, casinos, and
bars in the governorates of Mahweet, Aden, and Taiz. In addition, street
children are vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation. - U.S. State
Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2007 [full country report] |
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SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi
and Yemeni officials said gangs in Yemen are kidnapping children and sending
them to Saudi Arabia as beggars. Some families "rent their
children" to these gangs for want of money. Children are mostly sent to
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of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are trafficked out of the country to work as street
beggars, domestic help, or as camel jockeys in oil rich Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS –
Trafficking was a relatively new phenomenon in the country, and there were no
reliable statistics available. During the year there were reports of foreign
Arab women, particularly Iraqis, who were possibly trafficked to the country
for the purpose of prostitution. They are located primarily in the southern
port city of Aden and in Sana'a. As the problem of sex trafficking was new,
authorities were unable to provide information on the scope and methods of
sex trafficking, but they suspected that women were brought or trafficked to
the country by organized syndicates. In 2004 the government took steps to
address this problem by instituting a new visa requirement for Iraqi citizens
traveling to the country. According to a local human rights
NGO, it was possible that citizen women were trafficked from their homes to
other regions within the country for the purposes of prostitution, including
those under the age of legal consent. The same NGO also believed that such
prostitution may have been organized and speculated that low-level government
and security officials operated or were complicit in sex trafficking within
the country. There were no official statistics
available on the number of children trafficked out of the country. Press
reports claimed that children mostly from northern governorates were
trafficked out of the country to work as street beggars, vendors, or domestic
help in Saudi Arabia at a rate of approximately 200 children per week. Children
were trafficked by individuals, other children, and loosely organized
syndicates who helped them cross the border by donkey, automobile, or foot. Government investigations revealed
that extreme poverty was the primary motivation behind child trafficking and
that the victims' families were almost always complicit. The traffickers were
almost always well known by, if not related to, the family; parents were
either paid or promised money in exchange for allowing their children to be
trafficked. Many cases were also later discovered to be instances of illegal
immigration. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2005 [70] The Committee is deeply concerned
at the information that many children are trafficked to New study shames human traffickers http://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143968455 Countries in the Middle East have
been named as the worst culprits of human trafficking. A new report by an international
trade unions’ umbrella organisation says Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates and Yemen are notorious
destinations for women trafficked from Kenya. Its report, ‘Trafficking in
Persons — The Eastern Africa Situation’, notes that women and children were
favourite targets for well-organised trafficking rings, which operate freely
for lack of solid laws against the vice. World Population Awareness - Children GANGS
SMUGGLING YEMENI CHILDREN TO Child
Trafficking: A Growing Problem In Yemen The first workshop on child trafficking in New Report Addresses ... Yemen’s Suffering Kids The problems of coming up with accurate numbers include the lack of facilities at borders required to determine children being sent abroad to work, the vast border region with Saudi Arabia which makes smuggling difficult to control, and few reports coming from families. Another difficulty is trying to distinguish between children traveling with their families or relatives and those being trafficked. Parents,
Children Complicit In Human Trafficking Human trafficking is an old
problem in Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 5 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Partly Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide “Trafficking is the worst form of
child labor in Yemen,” Thaira Shalan, Child Protection Officer at UNICEF
based in Yemen, told Yemen Times. “It is horrendous.” Children handed over by their families to
traffic agents are being smuggled into Saudi Arabia and are used for begging,
theft or prostitution. UNICEF has gathered information that shows many of the
children who are victims of trafficking have been abused. UNICEF discovered child
trafficking in Yemen a little over a year ago. While working with children
spending time in prison and child labor, it came across children who had the
experience of being shipped off to Saudi Arabia. “When we were working with street children,
we discovered that there was a problem of child trafficking in the country
that we were not aware of,” said Shalan. “These children started talking
about their experiences. They had already been in Saudi Arabia, they were
abused, and they talked to us about the horrendous conditions they went
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