Seinforma
Specialized Journalistic Sevices (SJS)
Servicios Especializados de Información
Servicios Especializados de Información
English
Español
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All Rights Reserved © Specialized Journalistic Services Copyright 2006-2009 Canada
Todos los Derechos Reservados © Seinforma Canada Copyright 2006-2009
Todos los Derechos Reservados © Seinforma Canada Copyright 2006-2009
Videos
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
Contest
____________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
The history of domination in Latin America. MONROE: Let's reformulate!
Erosión y desabastecimiento,
los beneficios del biodiesel
los beneficios del biodiesel
__________________
English
Español
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________
__________________
______________
______________
(Photo resisters.ca /Seinforma)
SPECIAL REPORTS
Special REPORTS
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) judged multinational corporations for human rights violation in Colombia
More...
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) judged multinational corporations for human rights violation in Colombia
More...
______________
Volunteering at Seinforma Canada
Human Trafficking: Crime without Punishment
Even though human trafficking has been included as a crime in legislations, half of the countries do not have an action plan against this crime, condemned by all but punished by few around the world. Central America and the Caribbean: the most permissible.
05/20/09
By: Miguel González / Cultural Editor Seinforma
Bogota.- Human trafficking is the third most profitable illegal business after drug and gun trafficking. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), this crime generates revenues for US$32 billion yearly, an average of US$13 thousand per victim.
Last February, the United Nations Office against Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published the Global Report on Human-Trafficking (1), denominating one of the forms of slavery of the XXI century. This report expresses that trafficking with the objective of sexual exploitation is the most common with 79%, followed by forced labor with an 18%.
The percentile difference consists in that there is little information regarding the other types of human trafficking as the ones related to organ trafficking, with the finality of mendicity, or sexual commerce to domicile, among others. The UNODC points out that also, 22% of the victims are children (Chart 1).
The situational report regarding human trafficking recollected information in 155 countries around the world and identified that 66% of victims are women, 13% girls, 12% men and 9% children. The period taken into account in the study goes from 2003 to 2007.
Only 11 countries provided information on the selected indicators and, from these, the investigators took a simple from 71 nations in order to elaborate the study. In the 111 countries they identified 21.400 victims in the year 2006 and in the sample of the 71 nations the number of registered cases passed from 11.700 in the year 2003 to 14.900 in the year 2006, which represents a 27% increase.
Within the data that was provided, it was identified that grown women and girls are the largest victims of trans-boundary trafficking. Even though the report from United Nations deals with fully identified cases, in March 2008, the First University Forum from the UNAM-Human Rights in Mexico was undertaken, in which the main topic was “Slavery in the XXI century. Human trafficking and the legislation needed to fight against it.”
The forum revealed alarming numbers; for example, “it is estimated that about 600 thousand to 800 thousand people are illegally moved through different international borders each year” (2). In the city of Vienna, between the 13th and 15th of February of this year, the Forum of United Nations initiative against human trafficking (UN-GIFT) was realized; there, the ILO presented the study on Forced Labor in which it reports that “almost 2.4 million individuals around the world are victims of human trafficking and are subject of forced labor”, 43% of them are sexually exploited, 32% are labor exploited and 25% combines both”; it also estimates that half the victims are under 18 years of age (3).
Paper Laws
Even though the United Nations report is focused on human trafficking on borders, this crime is also presented within countries in which this flagellum is presented in different ways, reason for which a broad sub-record is presented, which impedes or difficult the denunciation.
In many countries it is yet not considered a crime, in spite of existent international instruments that seek to counteract the criminal activity within human trafficking. In the year 2003 the United Nations Convention Against Organized Crime came into effect, resolution that was signed November 15th 2000 in the Meeting in Palermo, Italy. There is also the Additional Protocol for Preventing, Eliminating and Punishing Human Trafficking, especially women and children. Another tool is the Protocol against Migrant Contraband by Land, Sea and Air, complementary to resolution 55/25.
According to the status report of human trafficking from the 155 countries covered by the report, 63% have introduced in their legislations that human trafficking in a crime, mainly referred to sexual exploitation and forced labor, but, the other crimes related to human trafficking are still unrecognized by national legislations or they simply impose brief sentences in the best case scenarios. This, without taking into account that in most countries the judicial systems are inefficient in front of this type of crimes or, they count with very limited definitions about human trafficking restricted to prostitution, slavery, issues related to child protection in general or in many occasions they use labor laws for punishing this flagellum.
Now, only 53% of the nations included in the study and that contemplates this crime within their legislations, have not adopted a national plan against this crime.
Even though, all South American countries contemplate human trafficking as a crime within their legislations, only Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru cover all forms of human trafficking, while the other countries include it partially.
In Central America and the Caribbean less that 60% of the nations have included it in their legislations for punishment, as expressed by the UN report.
Notes
(1) UNODC<http://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Global_Report_on_TIP.pdf>
(2) Human trafficking, slavery of the XXI century. In: Bulletin UNAM, DGSC-202, Ciudad universitaria March 30th 2008
<http://www.dgcs.unam.mx/boletin/bdboletin/2008_202.html>
(3) Experts from the ILO will highlight critical aspects of human trafficking in the forum to be undertaken in Vienna. February 13th 2009 [On line]: <http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--es/WCMS_090339/index.htm>
Recommended Videos
Parts of the movie Trade may be watched in:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cHsw1-n_p0>
Another movie that shows this transnational crime is Innocent lost and Human trafficking
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4237pS55h4&NR=1>
Human Trafficking modern slavery (short documentary that illustrates the topic)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQHM30raqEs&NR=1>
By: Miguel González / Cultural Editor Seinforma
Bogota.- Human trafficking is the third most profitable illegal business after drug and gun trafficking. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), this crime generates revenues for US$32 billion yearly, an average of US$13 thousand per victim.
Last February, the United Nations Office against Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published the Global Report on Human-Trafficking (1), denominating one of the forms of slavery of the XXI century. This report expresses that trafficking with the objective of sexual exploitation is the most common with 79%, followed by forced labor with an 18%.
The percentile difference consists in that there is little information regarding the other types of human trafficking as the ones related to organ trafficking, with the finality of mendicity, or sexual commerce to domicile, among others. The UNODC points out that also, 22% of the victims are children (Chart 1).
The situational report regarding human trafficking recollected information in 155 countries around the world and identified that 66% of victims are women, 13% girls, 12% men and 9% children. The period taken into account in the study goes from 2003 to 2007.
Only 11 countries provided information on the selected indicators and, from these, the investigators took a simple from 71 nations in order to elaborate the study. In the 111 countries they identified 21.400 victims in the year 2006 and in the sample of the 71 nations the number of registered cases passed from 11.700 in the year 2003 to 14.900 in the year 2006, which represents a 27% increase.
Within the data that was provided, it was identified that grown women and girls are the largest victims of trans-boundary trafficking. Even though the report from United Nations deals with fully identified cases, in March 2008, the First University Forum from the UNAM-Human Rights in Mexico was undertaken, in which the main topic was “Slavery in the XXI century. Human trafficking and the legislation needed to fight against it.”
The forum revealed alarming numbers; for example, “it is estimated that about 600 thousand to 800 thousand people are illegally moved through different international borders each year” (2). In the city of Vienna, between the 13th and 15th of February of this year, the Forum of United Nations initiative against human trafficking (UN-GIFT) was realized; there, the ILO presented the study on Forced Labor in which it reports that “almost 2.4 million individuals around the world are victims of human trafficking and are subject of forced labor”, 43% of them are sexually exploited, 32% are labor exploited and 25% combines both”; it also estimates that half the victims are under 18 years of age (3).
Paper Laws
Even though the United Nations report is focused on human trafficking on borders, this crime is also presented within countries in which this flagellum is presented in different ways, reason for which a broad sub-record is presented, which impedes or difficult the denunciation.
In many countries it is yet not considered a crime, in spite of existent international instruments that seek to counteract the criminal activity within human trafficking. In the year 2003 the United Nations Convention Against Organized Crime came into effect, resolution that was signed November 15th 2000 in the Meeting in Palermo, Italy. There is also the Additional Protocol for Preventing, Eliminating and Punishing Human Trafficking, especially women and children. Another tool is the Protocol against Migrant Contraband by Land, Sea and Air, complementary to resolution 55/25.
According to the status report of human trafficking from the 155 countries covered by the report, 63% have introduced in their legislations that human trafficking in a crime, mainly referred to sexual exploitation and forced labor, but, the other crimes related to human trafficking are still unrecognized by national legislations or they simply impose brief sentences in the best case scenarios. This, without taking into account that in most countries the judicial systems are inefficient in front of this type of crimes or, they count with very limited definitions about human trafficking restricted to prostitution, slavery, issues related to child protection in general or in many occasions they use labor laws for punishing this flagellum.
Now, only 53% of the nations included in the study and that contemplates this crime within their legislations, have not adopted a national plan against this crime.
Even though, all South American countries contemplate human trafficking as a crime within their legislations, only Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru cover all forms of human trafficking, while the other countries include it partially.
In Central America and the Caribbean less that 60% of the nations have included it in their legislations for punishment, as expressed by the UN report.
Notes
(1) UNODC<http://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Global_Report_on_TIP.pdf>
(2) Human trafficking, slavery of the XXI century. In: Bulletin UNAM, DGSC-202, Ciudad universitaria March 30th 2008
<http://www.dgcs.unam.mx/boletin/bdboletin/2008_202.html>
(3) Experts from the ILO will highlight critical aspects of human trafficking in the forum to be undertaken in Vienna. February 13th 2009 [On line]: <http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--es/WCMS_090339/index.htm>
Recommended Videos
Parts of the movie Trade may be watched in:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cHsw1-n_p0>
Another movie that shows this transnational crime is Innocent lost and Human trafficking
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4237pS55h4&NR=1>
Human Trafficking modern slavery (short documentary that illustrates the topic)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQHM30raqEs&NR=1>
***
Subscribe to our newsletter:
https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seinforma-l
https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seinforma-l
Legalizing Terror:
The Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Watch the discussion of what's involved in the agreement, its impact on the people of Colombia and organizing against it.
Disponible sólo en ingles
The Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Watch the discussion of what's involved in the agreement, its impact on the people of Colombia and organizing against it.
Disponible sólo en ingles
Multimedia
______________
79% of human trafficking has for objective sexual exploitation. 66% of the victims are women, 13% girls, 12% men and 9% children. (Photo Alvaro Gomez/Seinforma)
SPECIAL SERIES
MIGRATIONS
Migrations: Routes, Dreams and Reality
________________________________________________________________________________
UN REVEALS TERRIFYING NUMBERS REGARDING FLAGELLUM
Victims by genre
Graphic by Miguel Gonzalez/Seinforma Correspondent
Cuban emigration is not the highest
among Latin American countries
among Latin American countries
