| SuchFriendsAreDangerous |
04.01.2008 12:34 PM |
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Originally Posted by mangajunky
Now hold on just a minute - you're saying three of the following countries: France, Cambodia, Egypt, Italy, and Japan there is legalized slavery?
You must be totally wrong. There is no way that three of those countries have legalized slavery.
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legalized no, slavery yes. it has a new euphamistic name in the 21st century called human traficking. of course, intellectually, this term is synonomous with slavery, and you will find it often in text books and monographs on 19th century slave trade.
http://www.humantrafficking.org/
http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/
Italy is a transit and destination country for women, children and men trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Most victims are women and children from Nigeria, Romania, Moldova, Albania, and Ukraine though in smaller numbers there are also victims from Russia, Bulgaria, Latin America, North and East Africa, the Middle East, and China. Children constitute 7 to 10 percent of victims. There has been an increase in Romanian minors trafficked to Italy for sexual exploitation, an unintended consequence of a EU-mandated closure of Romanian orphanages. The number of Roma children trafficked for forced begging has also risen. Men from Poland and the P.R.C. are trafficked to Italy for forced labor, mostly in the agricultural sector.
The Government of Italy fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. Italy has taken aggressive steps to enforce its anti-trafficking laws and to provide protection to victims. To further strengthen further its response to trafficking, Italy should take steps to ensure that Article 18 benefits are administered equally to labor trafficking victims, ensure that victims are not penalized for crimes committed as a result of being trafficked, and launch demand reduction campaigns.
Cambodia is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Cambodian women and children are trafficked to Thailand and Malaysia for sexual exploitation and forced labor in factories or as domestic servants, while Cambodian men are trafficked for forced labor in the agriculture, fishing, and construction sectors in these countries. Cambodian children are trafficked to Vietnam and Thailand for forced begging. Cambodia is a transit and destination country for the trafficking of Vietnamese and Chinese women and children for sexual exploitation. Sex trafficking of women and children occurs within Cambodia's borders, from rural areas to cities such as Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Sihanoukville.
The Government of Cambodia does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. Cambodia is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for the second consecutive year because it failed to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons, particularly in addressing reports of public officials' complicity in trafficking. Although senior level government officials are committed to anti-trafficking efforts, there are reports that public officials' complicity in trafficking limited the government's success in combating trafficking. The government also failed to pass a much-needed comprehensive anti-trafficking law that has been in the drafting process for the past seven years. Cambodia should pass and enact comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation and make greater efforts to prosecute and convict public officials who profit from or are involved in trafficking.
Arab Republic of Egypt [ Country-by-Country Reports ]
The Arab Republic of Egypt [map], located NE Africa and SW Asia, is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea (N), Israel and the Red Sea (E), Sudan (S), and Libya (W). Egypt's capital and largest city is Cairo. Over the last decade, Egypt has made great strides towards the achievement of child rights. The majority of its inhabitants are concentrated into about 5% of the total land area, putting a heavy burden on public services and causing massive migration to Cairo and Alexandria. Approximately 23% of the population live below the national poverty line, and despite free education, 60% of adult females and 36% of adult males are illiterate. The development of an export market for natural gas is a bright spot for future growth prospects, but does little to reduce Egypt's persistent unemployment.
Egypt is a transit country for women trafficked from Uzbekistan, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, and other Eastern European countries to Israel for the purpose of sexual exploitation, and may be a source for children trafficked internally for commercial sexual exploitation and domestic servitude. Reports indicate that some of Cairo's estimated 1 million street children - both girls and boys - are exploited in prostitution. In addition, wealthy men from the Gulf reportedly travel to Egypt to purchase "temporary marriages" with Egyptian women, including in some cases girls who are under age 18, often apparently as a front for commercial sexual exploitation facilitated by the females' parents and marriage brokers. Some Egyptian cities may also be destinations for sex tourism. Children were also recruited from rural areas for domestic service in cities; some of these children may face conditions of involuntary servitude, such as restrictions on movement, non-payment of wages, threats, and physical or sexual abuse.
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