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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the first ten years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2009
Yemen is a country of origin and, to a much lesser extent,
transit and destination country for women and children trafficked for the
purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Yemeni children, mostly
boys, are trafficked across the northern border with Saudi Arabia or to the
Yemeni cities of Aden and Sana’a for forced labor, primarily as beggars, but
also for domestic servitude or work in small shops. Some of these children
are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation in transit or once they
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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 Makkah and Madinah. ***
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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 State of
children in Yemen deteriorates, Children’s Parliament www.yobserver.com/culture-and-society/10015711.html
CHILD TRAFFICKING - The report addresses the important
issue of child trafficking in Yemen, where children are exposed to many
dangers and serious harm as they are sold to people in Saudi
Arabia. Poverty, the absence of
basic services such as education and health, lack of awareness concerning the
risks of child trafficking and family dissolution have been identified as the
main reason for the spread of trafficking, the report says. The Children’s Parliament has called on
the government to improve the situation of children in Yemen, to implement
severe punishments for smugglers, and to conduct awareness campaigns
concerning the dangers of this problem. New study shames human traffickers www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143968455 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Countries in the 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 www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=806&p=front&a=2 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 www.yobserver.com/cgi-bin/yobserver/exec/view.cgi/1/3667 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 Rude awakening yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=738&p=culture&a=1 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
“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
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