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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Zimbabwe.htm
Zimbabwe is a source, transit, and
destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes
of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Large scale migration of Zimbabweans
to surrounding countries has increased – as they flee a progressively more
desperate situation at home – and NGOs, international organizations, and
governments in neighboring countries report that some of these Zimbabweans
face human trafficking. Rural Zimbabwean men, women, and children are
trafficked within the country to farms for agricultural labor and to cities
for forced domestic labor and commercial sexual exploitation. NGOs believe
internal trafficking increased during the year, largely due to the closure of
schools, worsening political violence, and a faltering economy. - |
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Reports of Rape and Torture Inside
Zimbabwean Militia Michael Wines, The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/world/reports-of-rape-and-torture-inside-zimbabwean-militia.html [accessed 17 January 2011] For Ms. Siyangapi's secret was not merely her own. Her appearance
was also testimony to one of the least documented — and most brutal —
practices of the military enforcers of Amnesty
International documented cases of rape within the Youth Service in a report
released in April. The Amani Trust, perhaps the
most active human rights group currently in Tanya: It’s Better to Die of AIDS Than
Hunger www.newint.org/features/2005/04/01/harare-zimbabwe/ [accessed 17 January 2011] ‘Soon after the
death of my father I was evicted from the house where my parents lodged in Mbare. I went to stay with my grandmother who lives
in Mabvuku. There were 10 of us children
staying there and we had all been left by deceased relatives. Life was
difficult because, being an old woman, my grandmother had no means of
sustaining herself and all of us at the same time.’ ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/zimbabwe.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The traditional practice of offering a young girl as
payment to settle inter-family feuds continues to occur in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61600.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The traditional practice of offering a young girl in marriage as
compensatory payment in interfamily disputes continued during the year.
Arranged marriage of young girls also continued. The legal age for a civil
marriage is 16 for girls and 18 for boys. Customary marriage, recognized
under the Customary Marriages Act, does not provide for a minimum marriage
age for either boys or girls; however, the SOA prohibits sexual relations
with anyone younger than 16 years of age. Child welfare NGOs reported that
they occasionally saw evidence of underage marriages, particularly in
isolated religious communities or among HIV/AIDS orphans but lacked
meaningful statistics on its prevalence. Musasa
Project reported an increase in instances where families pledged girls in
marriage and even unborn babies in exchange for economic protection. Such
girls often "married" well before the age of 12. There was little
information on the extent of trafficking beyond anecdotal reports of girls
exchanging sex for passage across the South African border, women lured to
other countries with false job promises, immigration officials of neighboring
countries sexually abusing children during deportation, children working as
domestic or agricultural workers, and employers requiring sex from
undocumented Zimbabwean workers in South Africa under threat of deportation.
There also were anecdotal reports that victims were trafficked to border
areas and into Anecdotal
information suggested that citizens who emigrated to seek a better life were
exploited while employed illegally in a neighboring country, when being
deported, or after being lured to another country by false employment
schemes. The groups at highest risk were HIV/AIDS orphans and displaced
persons. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7
June 1996 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/crc-Zimbabwe96.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] [13] The Committee
notes with concern the persistence of behavioral attitudes in the society as
well as cultural and religious practices, which, as recognized by the State
party, hamper the implementation of children's rights. Mention can be made in
this regard of the difficulties in ensuring birth registration in remote
areas of abandoned and refugee children, as well as of the situation of
female victims of practices such as ngozi (girl
child pledging), lobola (bride price) and early
marriage, and of disabled children. Human trafficking: A women’s issue Veritas, The Zimbabwean,
Sept. 22, 2010 [accessed 17 January 2011] Women comprise at
least 56 per cent of the world’s trafficking victims. The feminisation
of poverty and the feminisation of migration mean
that women from poorer and developing countries are particularly vulnerable
and the proportion of women trafficked is higher in these countries. Human
trafficking is modern day slavery. Its victims are men, women and children in
search of better prospects in life. Lured with promises of better jobs or
education, they often end up in prostitution or forced labour. Public awareness seems sparse. The media
does not seem to view it as a serious threat in Combat Human Trafficking The Herald, 208.84.116.223/forums/index.php?showtopic=19220&st=250 [accessed 17 January 2011] [Scroll down to
COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING Markets for body
parts in the southern Zimbabwe - A centre for Human Trafficking Saul Chaminuka,
The Zimbabwean, www.zimbabwesituation.com/nov23a_2006.html#Z7 [accessed 17 January 2011] The Zimbabwean
government has rejected assertions by the International Organization for
Migration (IOM) that human trafficking is a growing phenomenon in the
southern African country, despite the existence of enormous evidence on the
ground. Voice of www.voazimbabwe.com/content/a-13-56-74-2006-09-28-voa59-68950037/1457688.html [accessed 4 September 2012] The The White House
said Hunger forces Zim
girls into forced marriages ZimOnline, www.mg.co.za/article/2006-05-17-hunger-forces-zim-girls-into-forced-marriages [accessed 17 January 2011] Faced with
starvation after six years of poor harvests, Zimbabweans are resorting to
centuries-old traditions of "forced marriages", known in the local
Shona language as "kuzvarira", for
survival. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 7 Civil Liberties: 6 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/zimbabwe [accessed 28 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 17 January 2011] Nip Human Trafficking in the Bud Hatred Zenenga,
Editorial, The Herald ( www.zimbabwesituation.com/mar30_2004.html#link16 [accessed 17 January 2011] Reports of organised human trafficking and smuggling gangs in But for the
majority of the victims of human trafficking, promises of wealth and better
life often turn out to be modern-day slavery.
Young men and women are lured by agents who cash in on the dreams of
the poor to make it big in developed countries or African countries with
opportunities like Section IV Clinical and therapeutic
responses
[PDF] Linda Richter, Andrew Dawes, Craig Higson-Smith, eds, "Sexual
Abuse of Young Children in Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 13 September 2011] [Sect IV, Ch 19] CASE STUDIES OF
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN ZIMBABWE (BY CLARE RUDD) – INTRODUCTION - In this chapter,
case studies concerning children who were seen at the clinics are presented. Reports of Rape and Torture Inside
Zimbabwean Militia Michael Wines, The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/world/reports-of-rape-and-torture-inside-zimbabwean-militia.html [accessed 17 January 2011] For Ms. Siyangapi's secret was not merely her own. Her appearance
was also testimony to one of the least documented — and most brutal —
practices of the military enforcers of Amnesty
International documented cases of rape within the Youth Service in a report
released in April. The Amani Trust, perhaps the
most active human rights group currently in Tanya: It’s Better to Die of AIDS Than
Hunger www.newint.org/features/2005/04/01/harare-zimbabwe/ [accessed 17 January 2011] ‘Soon after the
death of my father I was evicted from the house where my parents lodged in Mbare. I went to stay with my grandmother who lives
in Mabvuku. There were 10 of us children
staying there and we had all been left by deceased relatives. Life was
difficult because, being an old woman, my grandmother had no means of
sustaining herself and all of us at the same time.’ Earning a Life: Working Children in Michael Bourdillon,
11/02/2003 www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=1134&flag=report [accessed 17 January 2011] The important
question we need to address is not the fact that children work, but rather
the conditions under which they work. Stopping children from working for
their livelihood is likely to do them more harm than good. We need to prevent
not the work of children, but the abuse of working children. All
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