Thẻ: Human trafficking

What is it like to be trafficked to a foreign country and forced into prostitution?

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ 1 bình luận

What is it like to be trafficked to a foreign country and forced into prostitution? Just ask Charimaya Tamang. She survived trafficking and now advocates for other survivors

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Some Days I Lived, Other Days I Died. Resilience in the face of exploitation

Charimaya Tamang knows all too well how easy it is to be trafficked in Nepal.

That’s because 22 years ago, it happened to her. At 16, Charimaya was alone cutting grass in the forest when she was ambushed by four men. After being drugged and losing consciousness, she awoke in Gorakhpur, near the Nepali/India border with her appearance completely changed — she had on makeup, a new hairstyle and different clothes.

medium – She was transported to the brothels in the Kamathipura red light district of Mumbai, India. Her captors left her in a windowless room with only a bed, table and chair, where she was forced to be a sex worker for the next 22 months.

“Some days I lived, other days I died,” says Charimaya.

Beaten, burned with cigarette butts and repeatedly raped, hope for escape slowly drifted away. Faced with deep social stigma should she ever regain her freedom, despair set in as neither outcome brought justice.

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Businesses to feel the heat from slavery scrutiny in 2016

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

Author: Alex Whiting

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation – Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:01 GMT
Field labourers stand in line at a gym turned shelter in Saltillo, Mexico, August 21, 2015. Some 200 people stayed at the gym after they were rescued, along with 63 minors, in an operation headed by the state attorney, from the farms of a livestock company where they were working under conditions of semi-slavery, according to local media. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
Field labourers stand in line at a gym turned shelter in Saltillo, Mexico, August 21, 2015. Some 200 people stayed at the gym after they were rescued, along with 63 minors, in an operation headed by the state attorney, from the farms of a livestock company where they were working under conditions of semi-slavery, according to local media. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

LONDON, Feb 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Businesses are coming under increased public scrutiny over the use of slavery in their supply chains, making forced labour one of the greatest risks to their brands’ reputation this year, a research firm said on Tuesday. Tiếp tục đọc “Businesses to feel the heat from slavery scrutiny in 2016” →

Infographic: Violence against women

~ Phạm Thu Hương ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Sixteen Days of Activism against Gender Violence

Date : 06 November 2015

UNWomen – One in three women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence — mostly by an intimate partner. Whether at home, on the streets or during war, violence against women is a global pandemic that takes place in public and private spaces. Together we can and must end this pandemic. Print options: 11×17 | 21×32.5 Tiếp tục đọc “Infographic: Violence against women” →

Nguồn gốc cuộc khủng hoảng tị nạn ở châu Âu

~ Phạm Thu Hương ~ 2 bình luận

07/09/2015 08:47 GMT+7

TT – Không ít nhà báo và chuyên gia nhân quyền quốc tế khẳng định những chính sách sai lầm của Mỹ và NATO là nguyên nhân dẫn đến cuộc khủng hoảng tị nạn đang làm rối loạn châu Âu.

Người tị nạn bị hải quân Libya bắt giữ ở thành phố cảng Tripoli - Ảnh: Reuters
Người tị nạn bị hải quân Libya bắt giữ ở thành phố cảng Tripoli – Ảnh: Reuters

Trong những ngày qua, cuộc khủng hoảng tị nạn châu Âu là chủ đề nóng và gây tranh cãi dữ dội trong giới truyền thông châu Âu và Mỹ. Báo chí Mỹ chỉ trích “các sai lầm chính sách” của Liên minh châu Âu (EU) khiến khủng hoảng thêm trầm trọng.

Tuy nhiên, có rất ít bài viết giải thích nguyên nhân dẫn đến tình trạng hàng trăm nghìn người dân các nước Trung Đông như Syria, Iraq, Libya… liều chết vượt Địa Trung Hải để tới châu Âu. Tiếp tục đọc “Nguồn gốc cuộc khủng hoảng tị nạn ở châu Âu” →

‘The Storm Makers’ Puts Cambodia’s Sex-Trafficking Under Spotlight

~ Trần Đình Hoành ~ 1 bình luận

By REUTERS AUG. 30, 2015, 9:06 P.M. E.D.T.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cambodians say that when human traffickers arrive in a village, they bring a storm and tears with them, an experience that Aya, sold into slavery when she was 16, will never forget.

Her story is at the center of the “The Storm Makers”, a documentary by French-Cambodian filmmaker Guillaume Suon, who spent three years filming human trafficking victims and traffickers in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation. Tiếp tục đọc “‘The Storm Makers’ Puts Cambodia’s Sex-Trafficking Under Spotlight” →

No-trafficking: UNIAP Vietnam

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UNIAP Vietnam

Who is being trafficked in Vietnam?

Human trafficking affects women, men and children in Vietnam. Trafficked persons experience various difficulties ranging from physical and mental health issues, to economic and social reintegration issues.

There are various vulnerability factors to human trafficking and usually no single factor brings about the vulnerability of a person. Women and girls are considered more vulnerable to trafficking than men due to unequal gender relations and social and economic power , but it is important to recognize the agency both women and men exert in the migration process and the special needs of children in making that decision.

There is an increasing demand for virgins and children in prostitution , due to such factors as the threat of HIV/AIDS.

Vietnam is also increasingly a destination for child sex tourism with perpetrators coming from various countries. Tiếp tục đọc “No-trafficking: UNIAP Vietnam” →