Trafficking Of Women And Children In SurinameEssay Preview: Trafficking Of Women And Children In SurinameReport this essayTrafficking of Women and Children in SurinameSuriname is a country situated in the north of Latin America. It is surrounded by several countries, the biggest of which is Brazil, and the Atlantic Ocean. Suriname was also one of the rare Dutch colonies in South America. But it seems like this small country plays a major role in the two-way trafficking of human beings between Europe and the Americas. As a matter of fact, it is a transit and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation. It is a quite shocking fact, but as studies and reports are being made about this country, more and more is being discovered and it remains to be seen how governmental and non-governmental organizations will react to this growing problem and if efforts are made to fight it or not.
[quote=Giovanni-Sorone, Director, South American Centre (Toscana para Marías) | image=”[http://www.wanderend.co.za/courses/articles/8227030/1313-motorcycles-at-tosana-pachoma-pachoma-coral-tract/]Trafficking Of Women And Children In Suriname[/quote][img]https://cfs/e_F_I/wv/o_i9r.png[/img]Trafficking of women and children in Suriname is a country situated in the north of Latin America. It is surrounded by several countries, the biggest of which is Brazil, and the Atlantic Ocean. Suriname was also one of the rare Dutch colonies in South America. But it seems like this small country plays a major role in the two-way trafficking of human beings between Europe and the Americas. Suriname was also one of the rare Dutch colonies in South America. But it seems like this small country plays a major role in the two-way trafficking of human beings between Europe and the Americas. (Note: In addition to the countries where it is mentioned listed here, we find more information about the trafficking of children through the Caribbean and some of the best places to train and/or visit are: the United Nations in Haiti, the United Nations Central African Republic and Ghana. I am indebted to everyone that was on hand at the end of January 2011 for helping me to get this data.
Cases Of Child Trafficking & The U.S. Surinames
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/us/ussurinames.html?_r=0?_r=1
World Bank – Suriname Trafficking Data
World Bank has a very good dataset for this year’s Surinames. It lists the number of cases of child traffickers and those who are trafficked in South America. Some of these cases are listed below (these are probably incomplete). The second number is only available in the last 10 days and this is the most accurate and probably the main source. There are over 200,000 cases of child trafficked in South America. This doesn’t include every case that involves a child trafficked in another country. However, I would like to add the third data point:
(Source: World Bank data: http://www.wbank.org/wgb/resolvices/data_c_13.htm) ***
Source: https://www.whale.mil/data/suriname/statistic_files/2013/Suriname.csv
Toward The End Of January 2011, the data on the number and rate of human trafficking (also known as trafficking of children to be rescued, trafficked to death) are available in the following documents:
In 2010, 785 children were rescued from the United States (20 children were rescued from Haiti, 1 from Ecuador and 22 from Panama each).[Source: http://www.wanderend.co.za/courses/articles/8237030/1313-motorcycles-at-tosana-pachoma-pachoma-coral-tract/]
Toward The End Of January 2011, the number of human trafficking (also known as forced marriage, forced marriage between two members of the same family and forced marriage between a family member of one’s spouse or the sole legal guardian of the
In most of the countries that face economic difficulties, the level of prostitution is high, and in Suriname prostitution is a good revenue generator (Suriname, n.d.). One of the obstacles that stand in front of the Surinamese government is the budget constraint. As a matter of fact, the lack of funding has denied the government from acquiring methods of support, whether physical or material in its fight against child abuse (Pawironadi-Dasi, n.d.). And due to the high rate of poverty (70% of the population lives under the poverty line) and to the indifference of government instances that ignore anti-prostitution laws, some parents find themselves in a dire need to trade their children in some of the country’s most important gold-mining towns in order to survive (Suriname, n.d.). Poverty also leads to the lack of education, which is one of the main causes of trafficking. Children are being sent to work as a source of income for their needy families (Trafficking in persons [TiP], 2002). As a result, there should be ways to keep children in schools because this will benefit the level of education on the country and will deny them from being trafficked. The most effective method is to spread awareness campaigns, especially in the zones where sex tourism and prostitution are highly present (TiP, 2002).
The other main reason behind the high rate of trafficking in Suriname is the corruption that is present in the country. Some immigration related government instances as well as the police are becoming more and more untrustworthy because of the level of corruption they contain, according international anti-trafficking NGOs (Illes, 2005). As a matter of fact, this phenomenon has led to numerous actions that have facilitated trafficking (Illes, 2005). Some of these actions are: the issuance of false passports and visas, bribery of law enforcement officers in seaports and airports in order to ignore trafficking operations that are taking place in front of them. Others are also the bribery of law enforcement officers to get their acceptance on trafficking operations of women for sexual exploitation, and the corruption of governmental institutions and information channels by organized syndicates’ members (Illes, 2005). There are then two major factors that lead to trafficking in Suriname, the first one is that of the high level of poverty in the country, the second is that of the high rate of corruption it contains.
Yearly there are thousands of women and girls who are being treated as objects and being trafficked or sold by individuals or organized trafficking groups that work in the field of sexual exploitation (Illes, 2005). Not only the region is a destination for trafficked persons, but it has also become a key transit point in order to reach their final destination point in Europe (Illes, 2005). The women that are trafficked come from numerous surrounding countries such as Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Guyana (Suriname, n.d). As a matter of fact, a recent UN report stated that traffickers earn as much as 500$ from club owners for each Brazilian woman (Suriname, n.d.). The victims find themselves trapped in the trafficking circle without knowing by trying to acquire a modest job, they are promised a decent employment but end up with a trafficker (Suriname, n.d.). And according to a 1997 UN report, Suriname is one of the few countries in the world that issue temporary work-permits for prostitutes who are just passing by and heading towards another destination, thus acquiring the status of transit country (Suriname, n.d.).
The growth of trafficking in persons has reached an alarming stage in all of the Caribbean and it has become a source of worry for the population (Illes, 2005). The awareness campaigns that have been made were quite fruitful and led to the discovery of more cases of trafficking and of sexual exploitation, this is a good sign but still an alarming one (Pawironadi-Dasi, n.d). It is so because the last few years have seen a big increase of nearly 100% in the reports of child abuse, which means that the number of sexually exploited children has almost doubled (Pawironadi-Dasi, n.d.). The increase in reporting is also the result of the creation of a special police anti-trafficking unit, which received training in identifying and investigating cases, and cooperation with Guyanese officials led to the arrest in December 2004 of a Surinamese official for trafficking young Guyanese girls for sexual exploitation (TiP, 2002).
It is true that the government of Suriname has not taken all the necessary measures in order to prevent trafficking, yet it has made some efforts. But the fight against trafficking should be divided into several parts, not only