IOM Human Trafficking and Exploitation Prevalence Survey reveals shocking facts | World - Geo.tv

IOM Human Trafficking and Exploitation Prevalence Survey reveals shocking facts | World - Geo.tv:

Egypt’s chaos fuels Africa’s human trafficking | Africa | DW.DE | 27.08.2013

Egypt’s chaos fuels Africa’s human trafficking | Africa | DW.DE | 27.08.2013

Adrian Kriesch:

"Egypt’s political unrest has brought suffering not only to its own people but also to hundreds of African refugees. Their goal is Israel but many end up as hostages on the Sinai Peninsula."

Read with the full article here:  http://www.dw.de/egypts-chaos-fuels-africas-human-trafficking/a-17050151

Rabbi Julie Schonfeld: The Faith Community's Role in Ending Modern-Day Slavery

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-julie-schonfeld/the-faith-communitys-role-in-ending-modern-day-slavery_b_3063126.html

 

Rabbi Julie Schonfeld

Executive Vice President, Rabbinical Assembly

 Posted: 04/11/2013 4:32 pm

Source: The Huffington Post

The voices of courageous survivors of human trafficking and the efforts of the many non-governmental organizations dedicated to ending this crime too often go unheard. As faith and community leaders, and as the members of the President's Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, we are compelled to come together to raise up a unified moral voice to mobilize the public to join us in our opposition to modern-day slavery. But just as importantly, we call upon the White House to use its unique role as leader and convener to mobilize even larger numbers of people and resources across the country -- and across the globe -- so that together, we can bring the struggle against modern-day slavery to the scale it demands.

We share President Obama's conviction that "our fight against human trafficking is one of the great human rights causes of our time." It is a high-profit and low-risk endeavor that allows criminals, through their cruel enslavement of innocent people, to profit by $32 billion per year.

This week, the advisory council came together at the White House to release our report, Building Partnerships to Eradicate Modern-Day Slavery, and to present the recommendations we make in the report to President Obama on how to eliminate modern-day slavery. My esteemed fellow members of this advisory council and I, national religious and community leaders, are utilizing this moment to initiate a national call to action for our government to work with the American public -- NGOs, charitable organizations, business leaders, universities and other educational institutions, and the faith community, to eradicate modern-day slavery -- a heinous crime trapping an estimated 21 million people across the globe in servitude.

Each of the advisory council's 10 recommendations is interrelated and build upon central themes. We envision a robust partnership with the White House as leader and convener in bringing to scale the growing sector of modern-day abolitionists in every sector fighting modern-day slavery. We commit ourselves and call upon people of conscience around the country to join this growing movement of modern-day abolitionists committed to eradicating the horror of slavery, growing every day around the globe.

Many of these enslaved people are forced to work in labor and supply chains that produce cheap goods consumed by the American public. Among the advisory council's recommendations is the formation of a set of definitive standards for companies and industries to follow for eliminating slavery in supply chains. The council recommends these standards can be developed as a result of the implementation of President Obama's executive order issued during the Clinton Global Initiative last September, prohibiting the U.S. government from purchasing goods or services from contractors who engage in any form of human trafficking. Using Energy Star or USDA organic as a model, we believe that U.S. government leadership on this issue can galvanize and bring to scale the work already being done by deeply committed people working in the field.

The Council also calls upon faith and community leaders to educate and work together in order to help curb the demand for commercial sex that is trapping innocent people in lives of unspeakable cruelty, both in the United States and around the world. We have also made recommendations that look at how government and law enforcement can work more effectively together to provide more effective and expansive victims' services, and create a single national hotline for human trafficking.

But the release of our report is but the first step.

As a rabbi, I recognize that the Jewish community has an abiding obligation to fulfill our moral mandate to emulate the Godly qualities described in the Bible -- where God "saw our suffering and brought us out of Egypt with an outstretched arm." The Jewish community joins Americans of all faiths in acting upon our belief that human beings are inherently free and may never be viewed as property, much less subject to the horrors of labor and sexual exploitation.

I know I speak on behalf of the other members of the advisory council when I close with a pledge to continue to work as a collective front of advocates committed to bringing an end to modern-day slavery in order to successfully combat this complex situation which affects a diversity of individuals and communities, is exacerbated by rampant poverty, and preys on those in crisis seeking refuge in runaway and homeless youth shelters. We are committed to joining with the White House to accept leadership in this realm and to help us grow partnerships across different industries, faiths, and communities across the country -- and globe.

BBC News - Sinai torture for Eritreans kidnapped by traffickers

BBC News - Sinai torture for Eritreans kidnapped by traffickers

By Mike ThomsonBBC News, Sinai


Lamlam, 17, is one of thousands of people who make the treacherous journey from Eritrea to Egypt each year. Many fall victim to unscrupulous people traffickers, who kidnap them and demand ransom money from their families.

"The kidnappers would make me lie on my back and then they would get me to ring my family to ask them to pay the ransom they wanted," she says, lifting up the back of her shirt to expose a rash of deep scars.

"As soon as one of my parents answered the phone, the men would melt flaming plastic over my back and inner thighs and I would scream and scream in pain.

"This, they hoped, would put extra pressure on my mother and father to find the money."

To read the full article, go to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21670929

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Nepali slaves in the Middle East - video | World news | guardian.co.uk

Pete Pattison investigates the trafficking of people escaping poverty and conflict in Nepal. Unscrupulous agents take huge sums of money from them for work abroad then consign them to slavery and appalling conditions in the Middle East. Many are abused by their employers and some are killed at the hands of agents

* This video was funded by Anti-Slavery International and the International Trade Union Confederation

• Pete Pattison
• guardian.co.uk,
• Tuesday 12 April 2011

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Never Work Alone" Says New Report on Forced Labor

"Never Work Alone" Says New Report on Forced Labor Print This Page | Email to a Friend ITUC and ASI join forces to combat forced labor in Europe March 16, 2011—Extreme exploitation of migrant workers is a dire trend throughout Europe. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has released Never Work Alone – a guide for trade unions and other civil society organizations to jointly combat modern-day slavery and trafficking of workers. The new report, "Never Work Alone," is the result of a two-year project in which trade unions and NGOs have looked into one another’s actions and approaches to combat slavery and labor trafficking. The report is the result of a two-year project in which trade unions and NGOs have looked into each other’s actions and approaches to combat slavery and labor trafficking. It examines different approaches and shows four major common grounds for action, each documented with a series of best practices. The report explains the real potential for unions and NGOs to improve their combined outreach; to intervene together in individual or collective cases; and to organize joint campaigns, training, and other activities. Progress is already being made in building cooperation with unions and NGOs active in the area of forced labor that are addressing the trafficking issue and providing direct assistance to victims. “The cooperation between the ITUC and Anti-Slavery International is starting now to obtain significant results in Europe,” said ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow. “This type of cooperation needs to extend into other regions as well. This is all the more important given the impact that the economic crisis is having on working people and their families. Alarming reports of abuse of migrants from all parts of the world, working in conditions of forced labor, remind us of the urgency of this fight.” Today, millions of people are still subjected to modern forms of forced labor. The ITUC Congress in Vancouver last year highlighted that urgent efforts are needed “to eradicate the growth of trafficking and other abuses linked to globalization, which subject the most vulnerable of the world’s workers to the cruelest and most extreme form of abuse.” Cross-posted from ITUC Online, March 16, 2011 Read the full report Read the ITUC Congress Resolution on promoting and defending fundamental worker rights Learn more about Anti-Slavery International

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Shemot - The Jewish Standard

Rabbi Jarah Greenfield •

Published: 23 December 2010

 

 

As we return to the book of Exodus this week in Parshat Shemot, we recall the Israelites’ descent into Egyptian slavery by the hands of a new king “who did not know Joseph.” The patriarchal family has faded off slowly over the course of more than three chapters and now, suddenly, a robust and fertile Israelite population bursts forth. This generation plunges down into servitude just as quickly as we learn of the ascent of a new Egyptian king. This Pharaoh, characterized by his fear of the increasing population and his complete indifference toward their once-respected relative, Joseph, executes a scheme to subject the Israelites to ruthless oppression. Thus begins the story of “yetziat mitzrayim,” the exodus from Egypt.

The Torah, which will permit slavery by law later on, draws a distinction between the slavery embedded within its own legal system and the slavery imposed upon the Israelites in Egypt. One mark of that distinction is in the word, “befarech,” used twice to describe how the Egyptians oppressed the Israelites. “Befarech (ruthlessly), they made life bitter for them with harsh labor at mortar and bricks and with all sorts of tasks in the field.” “Befarech,” argue the various rabbinic commentators, means backbreaking physical work, forced labor performed under the threat of violence, or work accompanied by denial of rest and meager food.

“Befarech,” argues Maimonides, means endless servitude doing jobs that have no purpose. Whatever the nuance of the word, the unifying principle behind these interpretations is that Egyptian slavery was excessively cruel and degrading.

One unusual midrashic treatment of the word “befarech” renders it as “bepeh-rach,” (“with a soft mouth”), suggesting that what made the bondage so crushing was that the Israelites couldn’t even find words to describe it. Their oppression was so all-encompassing that they were reduced to silence. Unable to speak about their own suffering, they also lacked, prior to Moses, a voice from the outside that could speak on their behalf.

As Jews, we recognize the depth of this oppression not only from our sacred texts but also from our painful collective history. As Jewish Americans, we know that the origins of our country are inextricably linked to the systemic oppression of African slaves. We deplore the hideous contradiction of our country being founded upon the notion of human freedom while being built by slaves. However, as author Ron Soodalter discusses in “The Slave Next Door,” slavery still exists in our country today. Although legally sanctioned slavery in America ended in 1865, slavery itself has persisted, having become hidden from the public eye. Today, human trafficking impacts people from every race and religion. Some give over their entire life savings to come to America from impoverished countries hoping for a better future; some are sold to bosses who threaten violence if they try to leave; some are minors who are captured into the prostitution industry within 48 hours of being released from youth detention centers. Even though we do know that slaves work in agricultural labor, product manufacturing, domestic work, and prostitution, human trafficking is so insidious that we don’t know how many or which of our daily products are tainted by slave labor.

As author Michael Waltzer points out in his book, “Exodus and Revolution,” the reason an oppressive regime works is that it is somehow attractive. If it weren’t so, he argues, then it would have been much easier for the Israelites to escape from Egypt than it was. The bondage that degrades the slave also conditions him into a type of complacency about his own suffering. Hazal, our rabbinic sages, also understood the enduring harm of a spirit broken by slavery. Such utter complacency may be the most pernicious aspect of oppression, but its impact is not only upon the slave. It also impacts the society that permits slavery to exist, whether legal or illegal, whether visible or hidden.

The fact that we all buy products every day that have likely been tainted by slave labor makes us part of a society that not only permits slavery but also enables it. This realization means that, at minimum, we have an obligation to learn as much as we can about how human trafficking operates, so that we can begin to speak about it in our communities. Because the bondage of our ancestors happened “bepeh-rach,” imposing upon them a stifling silence, their suffering endured until someone else decided to speak up for them. Speaking for those who have no voice is a familiar trope in human rights work. Those of us whose fundamental rights are secure have an obligation to do so, regardless of whether that obligation is understood through our faith tradition or our commitment to the ideals of our forefathers when they wrote that every human being is endowed with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

When we refer to the inauspicious events of the Torah that describe the enslavement of the Israelites, we call it “yetziat mitzrayim,” the “going out” or “exodus” from Egypt. Inherent in the very name of the story is its redemptive feature, i.e., that servitude ends when the Israelites finally leave Egypt. We can take faith from “yetziat mitzrayim” that today’s slavery, too, can end if we take concrete steps to eliminate it. We can do so through giving tzedakah to survivors of human trafficking through human rights organizations, through volunteering professional legal and organizing skills, through education advocacy in your synagogue, and definitely through efforts to learn and teach others about the slave-trade industry in America. As we pray the words “mibeyt avadim peditanu” (“from the house of servitude You rescued us”), let us do so with the kavannah (intention) to do all that we can as Jews and American citizens to emancipate others living in our midst who have not yet been redeemed from bondage.

Source: The Jewish Standard

Shemot - The Jewish Standard

Government to establish shelter for victims of human trafficking | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt

Source: Al-Masry Al-Youm

Heba Helmy

Thu, 09/09/2010 - 15:09

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Moshira Khattab, the Minister of Family and Population (MFP), signed a cooperation protocol with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on 1 September to set up the first regional shelter in Egypt for the purpose of rehabilitating victims of human trafficking.‬ ‬

‪Human trafficking is the third-largest illegal trade in the world, following that of weapons and drugs. According to an International Labor Organization report, more than 12 million people are trafficked each year worldwide for forced labor and sexual exploitation. 
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Egypt is considered an exporter, transit point, and destination for victims of human trafficking. Human trafficking here takes the forms of child labor, domestic servitude, forced labor, forced marriage, the trafficking of organs, and sexual exploitation through seasonal marriages and prostitution.

Azza al-Ashmawy, the manager of the human trafficking unit at the ministry, said that the first phase of this ministry-funded project is scheduled to be completed by 15 November, 2010.

“The shelter is regional, so it is open to victims of different nationalities, not only Egyptians,” she said. Assistance will be provided to female victims subjected to any form of trafficking crimes, including sexual slavery, early marriage, and domestic servitude.
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According to al-Ashmawy, rehabilitation and eventual reintegration of the victims are the project's main purposes. “Those victims are in dire need of psychosocial support in order to get over their traumas,” she said. The shelter will expand their economic opportunities by providing vocational skills training. The eduction will, “help them to be self-dependent and reintegrate more easily into society," al-Ashmawy explained.

Kristin Dadey, head of programs at the IOM's counter trafficking unit, said that assistance to victims of trafficking is a critical component of any comprehensive approach to targeting human trafficking. Dadey added that providing victims with a safe and secure environment is an important step forward in Egypt's efforts to combat trafficking.

Victims will be provided with shelter, food, and other basic necessities, as well as counseling and access to medical and legal assistance. A victim's needs will be determined on an individual basis, depending on the particulars of their experience.

This is not the first cooperation between IOM and the minister. The two have an ongoing partnership to address the issue of Egyptian unaccompanied minors immigrating to Italy and other European countries.

Among the government's several efforts to combat human trafficking is the passing of the anti-trafficking Law 64/2010. The law states that those convicted of crimes related to human trafficking will be imprisoned.

In 2007, the Child Law was amended to raise the minimum age of marriage for girls from 16 to 18. “The amendment of the Child Law aims to confront the temporary or seasonal marriage through which underage girls are exposed to sexual and economic exploitation due to their deteriorated financial circumstances,” said al-Ashmawy.

The establishment of the National Coordinating Committee for Combating and Preventing Trafficking in Persons, in 2007, is another effective tool to raise awareness of human trafficking.

Egypt has improved its ranking in the 2010 US State Department's annual human trafficking report, yet the problem lingers.

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Egypt is transit for human trafficking - Bikya Masr

Jun 14th, 2010 | By Mohamed Abdel Salam 
CAIRO: Egypt’s Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights Wael Abu al-Majd said that Egypt has become a significant transit country for migrants, particularly with regard to trafficking in human beings, where Egypt receives annually “large numbers of girls from Eastern Europe and also from Africa who come to Egypt in order to infiltrate into Israel.”

Abul-Magd stressed last week at an international conference organized by the National Council for Human Rights on “Egypt .. and the migration,” that the government alone is not capable of dealing with the transit phenomenon and “there must be concerted efforts both with the participation of businessmen or civil society organizations as well as the role of the media to eliminate this problem through the distribution of roles and responsibilities.”

The assistant foreign minister said that the law on trafficking in human beings, adopted by Parliament last month, “cannot cope alone with the problem of trafficking in human beings, but there must be some authorities and apparatus within the state to learn the dimensions of this crime and to be trained on how to deal with it, as well as to develop a national integrated plan on how to deal with this phenomenon regardless of criminalization and punishment.”

He argued that the new law on trafficking in human beings, which is involved in the preparation of humanitarian law that elevates the interests of victims and set up a fund to care for victims of refugees.


Abu al-Majd noted the shooting of African “infiltrators” to Israel through the Egyptian border.


“They violate laws on a daily basis and there are mafias and gangs of armed men who take the initiative and always shoot Egyptian soldiers at night and try to flee to Israel,” he said.


He added that 14 Egyptian troops were killed and 60 “infiltrators” were killed by those armed groups.

Hafez Abu Saada, the Chairman of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), asked the participants of the conference to bring the recommendation to Egypt “to demand the government to remove its reservations to the Refugee Convention and the integration of the international legislation, which has been ratified by Egypt in this regard in the legislative structure in Egypt.”

He noted that the Egyptian government arrests arbitrarily African migrants in different areas and “is a particularly egregious violation of human rights and requires the existence of a law on how to deal with refugees and educate police officers who do not know anything about the conventions on the treatment of migrants and asylum seekers.”

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Egypt is transit for human trafficking - Bikya Masr

UN urges Egypt to intensify efforts at combating human trafficking

May 7, 2010 07:59AM

The United Nations special rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, has commended the Egyptian Government for accelerating its efforts in the fight against trafficking in persons.

She however noted that some of the challenges remain to be addressed in order to protect and respect the human rights of trafficked persons. This is coming on the heels of the controversy that surrounds the marriage of a Nigerian legislature to a thirteen year old Egyptian girl. Ms. Ezeilo was speaking at the end of her 11-day fact-finding mission to Egypt, which was conducted at the invitation of the government.

The Special Rapporteur identified common forms of trafficking in persons in Egypt to include trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation of under aged girls through “seasonal / temporary” marriage, child labour, domestic servitude, other forms of sexual exploitation and prostitution.

She also stated that there are indications that trafficking for forced marriages, forced labour, transplantation of human organs and body tissues may be much more than current estimates, adding that the incidence of internal trafficking is much higher than transnational trafficking and the prevalence of street children increases their vulnerability to child trafficking.

Nigerian civil organization have called for Mr. Yerima to be investigated for trafficking having alledgedly paying a whopping sum of $100,000 as bride price for the girl. The group claims that the payment of such a huge sum as bride price is unrealistic and it amounts to forced child trafficking.

Ms. Ezeilo recommended that the government should provide comprehensive training programmes to enhance knowledge and awareness of human trafficking for the police, immigration/border guards, prosecutors and judiciary and civil society organizations, including the media on effective reporting and messages on trafficking in persons. The government was also encouraged to set-up a holistic and integrative national plan of action on combating trafficking in persons, which clearly sets out strategic objectives.


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The Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc has agreed on the proposed law to combat human trafficking which criminalizes the purchasing, selling, and transporting of any individual.

Tuesday, April 13,2010 18:03
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The Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc has agreed on the proposed law to combat human trafficking which criminalizes the purchasing, selling, and transporting of any individual.

Hussein Mohamed Ibrahim, Deputy-Chairman of the MB parliamentary bloc, praised the drafted law. He maintained “We would like to see the government committed to the international conventions in protecting and maintaining human rights”. He praised the article which gave the judge the right to combat any crime in this field without considering the nationality of its perpetrator.

The session called for changing the name of the law from “combating human trafficking” to “combating human abuse”, since article 2 included acts which do not fall under human trafficking such as prostitution, child pornography and forced labor.

MB MP Gamal Qorani, stressed the need to activate this law, pointing out that the reason behind these crimes is poverty. He called on the government to fight this phenomenon and claimed that an important article in the law stipulates that the state protect its victims, looking after them and their welfare and provides adequate shelter for victim children. They also called for harshening the punishment if any crime against the victim leads to death or permanent disability.

Dr. Ibrahim el-Gafari, MB MP asserted the significance of implementing the law pointing out the rate of human trafficking in Egypt has greatly increased during the last 10 years.

Dr. Khalaf Abdel Aziz emphasized that Islam has ended slavery and dignified all humans regardless of creed. He warned of the increase of the phenomenon of street children which studies have verified that there are more than 2 million. He commended the role of the council in preventing Egyptian females from traveling to the gulf to work as servants. He also added that the marriage of underaged girls to wealthy men from the gulf is considered part of the human trafficking crime and called on the government to firmly combat this phenomenon.

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Sex trafficking victims speak out against trade - 2/25/10 - Los Angeles-Southern California-LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports - abc7.com

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Adrienne Alpert

WESTLAKE, Calif. (KABC) -- As many as 17,000 human slaves are trafficked into the United States every year. Los Angeles is a prime destination. With the city's diverse culture, people from foreign countries blend in. They blend in in agriculture, in sweatshops, and in an Eyewitness News second-part look at human trafficking, they blend in as the domestic slave next door.

The family who bought an 8-year-old girl for a domestic slave does not live in their house any more, but the home is still impressively big in an Irvine guard-gated community. A garage door hides the place where the girl lived.

The Egyptian girl slept inside the garage when she wasn't working a 16-hour day. In Egypt, Shyima was sold to cover a theft an older sister was accused of.

"I went there with my mom to visit and I never went back home," said Shyima.

Now age 20, Shyima can talk about the experience. She was a 10-year-old housekeeper. She cooked and cleaned for the family's five children, who emigrated from Egypt and had Shyima smuggled along to continue working for them, while she slept on a filthy mattress and had to wash her clothes with dish soap.

"Every country has outlawed slavery, and yet it's still taking place and, in fact, is growing," said Kay Buck, executive director, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST).

Buck cites the number of people working with little or no pay at 27 million worldwide.

"It's really the human rights issue of the 21st century," said Buck.

A neighbor finally called authorities three years ago, concerned about the little girl who was always working and never went to school.

Abel Ibraham was convicted and sentenced to three years in federal prison and deported. His now ex-wife, Amal Motlieb, served nearly two years, and she was deported. They were ordered to pay Shyima $76,000 for the two years she was their slave.

When asked when she finally realized it was wrong, Shyima said, "When I finally got taken away, and when they told me this is not legal here."

Fear keeps modern day slaves from running away, fear that facing the law will be worse.

"She said that the police would arrest me and put me in jail and a lot of bad people that could rape me," said Ima Matul, a former domestic slave. Ima was a 16-year-old slave from Indonesia working without pay as a nanny when she finally got help escaping.

She recently joined a panel on Eyewitness Newsmakers to speak out.

"I feel powerful to tell my story," said Ima.

The little girl who was a domestic slave wants to join that army and work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.


"ICE, yes, I'm going right into ICE for all immigration, helping with human trafficking and being out there to rescue others and be part of it," said Shyima.

She is Shyima Hall, adopted by a loving family. She's a college student with a bright future.

The Los Angeles Human Trafficking Task Force has a hotline to assist victims and prosecute traffickers: (800) 655-4095.

For more information about the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), visit www.castla.org
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