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Human trafficking
4/29/2008 2:30:39 PM
According to the CIA Factbook 2007, annually, close to two-thirds of the
global human trafficking victims are moved intra-regionally within East Asia and
the Pacific (260,000 to 280,000 people) and Europe and Eurasia (170,000 to
210,000 people). 80% of the victims are female and 75% of all victims are
trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation.
Countries like Mexico, Venezuela, Russia, China and India are examples of
countries that are on the CIA’s Watch List for failure to enforce measures to
prevent and prosecute those responsible for human trafficking,
protecting individuals, and failure of the government to provide critical law
enforcement data.
“Mexico is a source, transit, and destination country for persons trafficked
for sexual exploitation and labor. While the vast majority of victims are
Central Americans trafficked along Mexico''s southern border, women and children
are trafficked from rural regions to urban centers and tourist areas for sexual
exploitation, often through fraudulent offers of employment or through threats
of physical violence. The Mexican trafficking problem is often conflated with
alien smuggling and, frequently, the same criminal networks are involved.
Pervasive corruption among state and local law enforcement often impedes
investigations.”
CIA FACTBOOK 2007
China, India and Russia are also a source, transit and destination country
for women, men, and children trafficked for sexual exploitation and forced
labor.
“The majority of trafficking in China is internal, but there is also
international trafficking of Chinese citizens. Women are lured through false
promises of legitimate employment into commercial sexual exploitation in Taiwan,
Thailand, Malaysia, and Japan.”
CIA FACTBOOK 2007
“In India, the large population of men, women, and children - numbering in
the millions - in debt bondage face involuntary servitude in brick kilns, rice
mills, and embroidery factories, while some children endure involuntary
servitude as domestic servants; internal trafficking of women and girls for the
purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced marriage also occurs; the
government estimates that 90 percent of India''s sex trafficking is internal.”
CIA FACTBOOK 2007
“India is also a destination for women and girls from Nepal and Bangladesh
trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Boys from
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are trafficked through India to the Gulf
States for involuntary servitude as child camel jockeys. Indian men and women
migrate willingly to the Persian Gulf region for work as domestic servants and
low-skilled laborers, but some later find themselves in situations of
involuntary servitude including extended working hours, non payment of wages,
restrictions on their movement by withholding of their passports or confinement
to the home, and physical or sexual abuse.”
CIA FACTBOOK
2007
The current situation of Venezuela is the worse. “Women and children from
Colombia, China, Peru, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic are trafficked to and
through Venezuela and subjected to commercial sexual exploitation or forced
labor. Venezuelans are trafficked internally, to Western Europe (particularly
Spain and the Netherlands) and to countries in the Caribbean region for
commercial sexual exploitation. Venezuela is a transit country for illegal
migrants from other countries in the region and for Asian nationals, some of
whom are believed to be traffic victims.”
CIA FACTBOOK
2007
Still according to the CIA Factbook 2007, Venezuela does not fully comply
with the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking and is not
making significant efforts to do so.
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