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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the first ten
years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2009
Zambia is a source, transit, and destination country for
women and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation.
Child victims, primarily trafficked within the country for labor and sexual
exploitation, tend to be female, adolescent, and orphaned. In exchange for
money or gifts, relatives or acquaintances often facilitate the trafficking
of a child to an urban center for prostitution. Children are sometimes
trafficked as a consequence of soliciting help from strangers such as truck
drivers. Many Zambian child laborers, particularly those in the agriculture,
domestic service, and fishing sectors, are also victims of human trafficking.
Traffickers most often operate through ad hoc, flexible networks of
relatives, truck drivers, business people, cross-border traders, and
religious leaders. - U.S. State
Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Zambia
should save its own children... When Tomaida
Tembo received news of her impending trip to
Lusaka, she was 500 km away in Katete’s Kathumba village in the Eastern Province. The 11-year-old did not know how to
react. To make her travelling
easy, the distant cousin had sent enough money to cover her travelling expenses and a lot more to help her mother
settle down after her departure. That
was five years ago since the morning Tomaida left
the sanctuary of her mother on a journey that changed her life forever. Wondering on the cold streets of Lusaka, Tomaida awaits her next client on Addis Ababa drive. Activists Urge Zambian Government to Crack Down on Human
Trafficking www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-05/2007-05-01-voa41.cfm?CFID=132078934&CFTOKEN=90141369 Kafukanya says ***
ARCHIVES *** U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Street children are especially vulnerable to commercial sexual
exploitation, and the problem of child prostitution is widespread in
Zambia. Zambia is a source and transit
country for women and children trafficked for the purpose of sexual
exploitation. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Women
from the country were trafficked within the country and to other parts of
Africa and to Europe, and the country was used as a transit point for
regional trafficking of women for prostitution. Traffickers fraudulently
obtained Zambian travel documents for their victims before proceeding to
other destinations. During the year there were reliable reports that women
were trafficked to the country for commercial sex work. The government did not keep data
on trafficking cases and the law did not define the crime of trafficking,
making it difficult to profile the typical trafficker. A 2004 survey of service
providers, community members, and children located in four cities indicated
that traffickers come from a variety of backgrounds and include family
members, truck drivers, prostitutes, and business persons. Foreign
traffickers were said to have come from Asia, Europe, and North America as
well as from countries in the region. Traffickers often use promises of
employment to entice young girls and women to leave their homes and families
and then force them into prostitution. Zambian's
plight highlights Texas human trafficking problem At age 11, Kechepa
lived in Zambia, which is a country with no running water in many locations.
He roasted mice for food. But with dreams of a better life, he put his trust
into Keith Grimes. Grimes was a missionary for TTT: Partners and Education, which
was a non-profit organization based in "We noticed that all the
things they promised in Zambia were not being fulfilled," he said. Money from churchgoers was coming in by the
hundreds of thousands. Meanwhile, the boys felt like prisoners. They were not
allowed phone calls, pay and sometimes were denied food. "We didn't eat for two-and-a-half
days," Kechepa said. But Kechepa said
they were threatened deportation if they complained, which Kechepa said would turn them into outcasts in
Zambia. "And if you're deported,
your family is going to disown you, saying you shamed our name," Kechepa said. Director Amy Allais pours her soul into human trafficking ad A gripping commercial for The
International Organisation for Migration on human
trafficking is definitely a commercial Director Amy Allais,
from Fresh Eye Film Productions, poured her soul into. The commercial focuses on a young
girl, in Zambia, being lured into a trafficking ring under the false promise
of becoming a model in South Africa. Messages like: “you will be raped” and
“you will be a sex slave” become part of the dusty township landscape as the
ad unfolds. “The call centre is now receiving about
100 calls a day. We usually only receive no more than 50 calls a week. Who
says advertising doesn't work?” Activists Urge Zambian Government to Crack Down on Human
Trafficking www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-05/2007-05-01-voa41.cfm?CFID=132078934&CFTOKEN=90141369 Kafukanya says Human Trafficking - Danger to Social , Economic Growth www.osisa.org/node/8745 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Many of these children whose
parents have died from HIV/AIDS or related diseases lack parental care and
guidance, cultural, social and family ties and life skills that are usually
passed on from generation to generation. They are deprived of their childhood
love and care and many of them lose the opportunity to go to school. They
become victims of human trafficking because they tend to be attracted to big
cities and towns, with the view of earning a living. Child
Trafficking: Does It Exist In Zambia? When 16-year-old Fridah Bwalya (not real name)
visited a local restaurant on what had started as a normal day, little did
she know that her life would change forever. AIDS
Now Compels Africa to Challenge Widows' 'Cleansing' In Malawi and in a
number of nearby nations including Zambia and Kenya, a husband's funeral has
long concluded with a final ritual: sex between the widow and one of her
husband's relatives, to break the bond with his spirit and, it is said, save
her and the rest of the village from insanity or disease. Widows have long
tolerated it, and traditional leaders have endorsed it, as an unchallenged
tradition of rural African life. Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 3 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free Twelve suspected human traffickers arrested www.times.co.zm/news/viewnews.cgi?category=4&id=1092743245 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Ms Mbangweta said the suspects were
allegedly enticing Zambians by promising them lucrative employment and
businesses in various parts of the world. She said the group had also used
fake passports and the department was making arrangements for one-way travel
documents to send them back. She said
the ring had set up several command posts where agents were being paid
handsomely for facilitating the exit from Zambia of people to go and offer
cheap labour and engage in other dubious acts in
other parts of the world. The
Invisible people - Africa feeds new slavery [scroll down] The African Gender Institute has launched a new report based on a study of human trafficking and prostitution in Zambia. Some of the findings: In Zambia women and children are trafficked by road, rail and throughout Africa to Europe, Australia and the US. Attached to prostitution and trafficking are violence and sexual abuse. The Protection Project - Zambia [DOC] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE
TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - HIV/AIDS, coupled with poverty, has contributed to the proliferation
of street children and child labor in Zambia. About 80 percent of Zambia’s
population lives in degrading conditions. Poverty pervades both rural and
urban areas, pushing most women, adolescents, and children into the informal
sector of the economy, where they sell a variety of goods, their labor, or
their bodies. Prostitution is rife in major towns and smaller urban areas.
Nearly 1 million children are reportedly orphaned in the country, and 75,000
live on the streets. Nearly half of Zambian children, regardless of orphan
status, are not enrolled in primary s.
- htsccp Zambia
should save its own children... When Tomaida Tembo received news of her impending trip to Lusaka, she
was 500 km away in Katete’s Kathumba
village in the Eastern Province. The
11-year-old did not know how to react.
To make her travelling
easy, the distant cousin had sent enough money to cover her travelling expenses and a lot more to help her mother
settle down after her departure. That
was five years ago since the morning Tomaida left
the sanctuary of her mother on a journey that changed her life forever. Wondering on the cold streets of Lusaka, Tomaida awaits her next client on Addis Ababa drive. Massive child labour in Zambia denounced With children working in dangerous
occupations including portering, street begging and
domestic labour, child labour
is a widespread problem in Zambia, ICFTU says. "In contravention of the ILO's two core conventions on child labour,
children are still toiling in even the worst forms of child labour such as small scale mining operations, agriculture
and stone crushing." The UN labour
agency, ILO, has published figures that estimate that over 550,000 children
were working in 2001. 85 percent of these were involved in the so-called
"worst forms of child labour." According
to the ICFTU report, "as the number of Zambians dying of HIV-AIDS
continues to increase, the numbers of orphans, and the number of households
headed by a child, increases as well. Nearly all of these children are
working." Neither were children safe from
the perils of prostitution. The report states that "there are reports of
forced prostitution [in Zambia], particularly of children, of the trafficking
of women and children to neighbouring countries for
the purposes of prostitution, and of combatants from neighbouring
Angola kidnapping Zambians and taking them back to Angola to perform various
forms of forced labour." - htcp All material used herein
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