IOM Human Trafficking and Exploitation Prevalence Survey reveals shocking facts | World - Geo.tv:
Showing posts with label Libya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Libya. Show all posts
Friday, August 19, 2016
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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
Source: guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Jubilee Market Aims To Help Human Trafficking Victims - The Granbys, CT Patch
An interview with a local woman that is reaching out globally and helping thousands through her Granby based non-profit.
Source: thegranbys.patch.com
Jubilee Market Aims To Help Human Trafficking Victims - The Granbys, CT Patch
Each year an estimated 600,000-800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders. Most of these victims are women and children and are forced into prostitution.
Liz Glover, Founder and President of the Granby-based non-profit organization The Jubilee Market, was staggered by these statistics three years ago.
A mother of two, Glover decided to take the step to help these men, women and children through the creation of her non-profit, The Jubilee Market. Glover now puts her "God-given skill" to work internationally.
“I love to sew, draw, paint (murals on walls), make jewelry, decorate, and love to design window treatments- I invented and patented a drapery rod," she said. "I am hoping to use it in our organization to help establish sustainable income for those who have been rescued from prostitution and need jobs and job skills."
What does the organization do?
The Jubilee Market collaborates with other organizations in India working in the red light districts. The organizations search for women and girls in need of assistance or rescue.
- Purchase equipment and supplies for those organizations like sewing machines, jewelry making tools, knitting tools, and other equipment
- Supply textiles, gemstones, yarns, and to organizations that make products
- Teach women and children skills and trades
- Provide transportation, marketing assistance, and other tools needed to sell products they make to generate a sustainable income
- The Jubilee Market sells the products on their website, boutiques like Bleu Willow, and booths at women’s events and conventions.
- They provide opportunities for people in the U.S. to use their resources to help women and children in need
- The Jubilee Market contributes to organizations that build safe homes for exploited women and children
Who are Glover’s influences or role models in life?
My influence for the foundation of our organization is Jewels 4 God, Intl. from VA. They allowed me to join them on my first trip to India. They teach girls jewelry making and market and sell the jewelry for them. We teach all skills....jewelry, sewing, knitting, crocheting, business skills.
My role models are my parents. My Dad was a Pastor and my mom was an amazing help to him in all that he set his hand to do. My Dad was also an entrepreneur. He loved business. My parents loved people and devoted their lives to directing their feet to the right path.
If someone wrote a biography about you what would the title be?
'She lived her faith and why?' I believe that God's word, the Bible, teaches us that we are to be doers of his word and not just hearers only.
Share with us a little unknown fact about yourself.
I survived stage 3a colorectal cancer and finished my last chemo treatment in May 2010. I had an ileostomy reversal surgery in July 2010. I am cancer free and grateful to be able to continue the work that was set before me. I traveled to India on Christmas day 2010 and returned back to the U.S. on Jan 25 2011.
What lessons have you learned in life?
My life is not my own. I have a responsibility to share what has been entrusted to me...my skills, abilities, time and resources.
What aspirations or goals do you have for this endeavor?
I want to save the world.
I don't want to make an impact just in my little corner. This problem of slavery involves women...sisters...in every corner of the earth. I believe I can make a difference. But not by myself. I have been called "Mighty Mouse" because I am small and I do all that I can do with all of my might, however, to make a real impact it will take an army of people and a host of organizations all joining and networking together to make an impact. We cannot do it alone.
We have been given invitations to come to the Philippines, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Mexico and various other parts of India to work with organizations who are desperate for help. I could easily take 10 trips with 10 teams this year if we had the resources. We are also made aware of the huge trafficking issue here in the U.S. There are 5 or 6 homes of HOPE that I personally know of that could be established nationwide today if the resources were available. I believe they are available. I believe we could be far reaching if everyone joined the fight.
What do you want people to take away from this conversation?
We need each other. In relation to the plight of the impoverished of the world, the biggest mistake that we make is to think that we can’t make a difference because the problem is too big and our efforts are too insignificant. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And my something combined with your something is enough and could even become “everything”.
As we grow, please grow with us. It will take an army of 'doers' to make a difference.
Source: thegranbys.patch.com
Jubilee Market Aims To Help Human Trafficking Victims - The Granbys, CT Patch
Monday, August 9, 2010
When Children Cry.wmv | UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency | Causes
Image by World Economic Forum via Flickr
Can you help spread this important message?
Angelina Jolie cares.. When Children Cry cares about all of our differently abled, damaged, broken, neglected & abused.When Children Cry.wmv | UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency | Causes
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
UNICEF fights child trafficking and exploitation in Niger
Sandra Bisin, UNICEF
AGADEZ, Niger (November 10, 2009) — It's 6 a.m. at the Agadez bus station, and the members of the town's Child Protection Committee are keeping a close watch on the waiting passengers for the bus heading towards the northern town of Dirkou.
This city is the last stop in Niger for illegal migrants on their way to neighboring Libya. Among them are children lured by false promises of a better future.
The Child Protection Committee identifies a 14–year–old boy and a trafficker. The trafficker is taken to the police station. The child is interviewed by police officers before being taken to a transit center run by Action Against the Use of Child Workers (AFETEN), a UNICEF partner organization.
"You can easily figure out fathers from traffickers," says committee Vice President Bilal Afournounouk. "Traffickers are constantly checking on the children and have a rather brutal behavior towards them. It is also easy to identify children aiming for illegal migration: They look scared and are afraid to move around."
Hoping to earn money
One of four other boys who are already staying at the center tells a familiar story about leaving home out of financial desperation.
"I left my family to go to Libya because I had seen older boys leave our village and come back with a lot of money," says the boy, Mamane, age 16. "It is because of poverty that my parents decided to send me abroad. I was supposed to get a job as a domestic worker or in the plantations, and send them money every month.
"My family spent a fortune to pay the guide," he adds. "They sold five goats and one cow to pay for my passage to Libya. Unfortunately, our guide disappeared when we reached Agadez, with all the money my parents had given him and I was told to come to this center."
UNICEF Niger supports two AFETEN transit centers, in Agadez and Niamey, for young migrants and children who are victims of economic exploitation. The centers provide short–term shelter, food, health care and psychological support. The program also offers training in income–generating activities, as well literacy classes.
Unaware of the perils
Poverty is the key motivation for parents to send their children abroad. But they are unaware of the perils most children face in transit and at their destinations. An estimated 200,000 children are victims of child trafficking in Africa each year. Research has shown that most of the children trafficked to Libya are exploited as laborers in plantations or as child domestic workers.
The boys who are brought to the center are told of the realities that they might have faced.
"I have explained to them the perils of the journey, the living and working conditions for migrants in Libya, the harsh reality and the fact that some children will never return," says the head of AFETEN, Moutari Mamane. "They were quite shocked. They had no idea that the passage to Libya is a terrible ordeal for most people."
"Too many risks"
Although not yet totally convinced that he is on the right path for a better and safer future, Mamane, the 16-year-old would-be migrant, agrees he should stay with his family.
"I have understood that it is not good for a child to go to Libya," he says. "There are too many risks. One can even die during the journey. When I am back in my village, I will tell the other boys about what I have learned."
Between 2006 and 2008, with UNICEF support, a total of 348 children (including 10 girls) were supported at Agadez's transit center and repatriated to their villages; nine Child Protection Committees were created in the northern region of Agadez; and 18 children had the opportunity to engage in income-generating activities (mostly agriculture) when back in their villages.
Mamane says that the number of children transiting via Agadez for illegal migration has significantly decreased since their committee started operating two years ago. "Before, we used to identify up to 40 children in one day," he notes. "These days, we rather identify four to six children in one day."
http://www.unicefusa.org/news/news-from-the-field/child-protection-committees.html
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=ea542fd7-94e8-442a-8c8e-ac3db376cf26)
AGADEZ, Niger (November 10, 2009) — It's 6 a.m. at the Agadez bus station, and the members of the town's Child Protection Committee are keeping a close watch on the waiting passengers for the bus heading towards the northern town of Dirkou.
This city is the last stop in Niger for illegal migrants on their way to neighboring Libya. Among them are children lured by false promises of a better future.
The Child Protection Committee identifies a 14–year–old boy and a trafficker. The trafficker is taken to the police station. The child is interviewed by police officers before being taken to a transit center run by Action Against the Use of Child Workers (AFETEN), a UNICEF partner organization.
"You can easily figure out fathers from traffickers," says committee Vice President Bilal Afournounouk. "Traffickers are constantly checking on the children and have a rather brutal behavior towards them. It is also easy to identify children aiming for illegal migration: They look scared and are afraid to move around."
Hoping to earn money
One of four other boys who are already staying at the center tells a familiar story about leaving home out of financial desperation.
"I left my family to go to Libya because I had seen older boys leave our village and come back with a lot of money," says the boy, Mamane, age 16. "It is because of poverty that my parents decided to send me abroad. I was supposed to get a job as a domestic worker or in the plantations, and send them money every month.
"My family spent a fortune to pay the guide," he adds. "They sold five goats and one cow to pay for my passage to Libya. Unfortunately, our guide disappeared when we reached Agadez, with all the money my parents had given him and I was told to come to this center."
UNICEF Niger supports two AFETEN transit centers, in Agadez and Niamey, for young migrants and children who are victims of economic exploitation. The centers provide short–term shelter, food, health care and psychological support. The program also offers training in income–generating activities, as well literacy classes.
Unaware of the perils
Poverty is the key motivation for parents to send their children abroad. But they are unaware of the perils most children face in transit and at their destinations. An estimated 200,000 children are victims of child trafficking in Africa each year. Research has shown that most of the children trafficked to Libya are exploited as laborers in plantations or as child domestic workers.
The boys who are brought to the center are told of the realities that they might have faced.
"I have explained to them the perils of the journey, the living and working conditions for migrants in Libya, the harsh reality and the fact that some children will never return," says the head of AFETEN, Moutari Mamane. "They were quite shocked. They had no idea that the passage to Libya is a terrible ordeal for most people."
"Too many risks"
Although not yet totally convinced that he is on the right path for a better and safer future, Mamane, the 16-year-old would-be migrant, agrees he should stay with his family.
"I have understood that it is not good for a child to go to Libya," he says. "There are too many risks. One can even die during the journey. When I am back in my village, I will tell the other boys about what I have learned."
Between 2006 and 2008, with UNICEF support, a total of 348 children (including 10 girls) were supported at Agadez's transit center and repatriated to their villages; nine Child Protection Committees were created in the northern region of Agadez; and 18 children had the opportunity to engage in income-generating activities (mostly agriculture) when back in their villages.
Mamane says that the number of children transiting via Agadez for illegal migration has significantly decreased since their committee started operating two years ago. "Before, we used to identify up to 40 children in one day," he notes. "These days, we rather identify four to six children in one day."
http://www.unicefusa.org/news/news-from-the-field/child-protection-committees.html
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
