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Human trafficking is the form of modern day slavery. It involves trafficking men, women and children for forced labour and sex work. Trafficking in persons is considered to be the second largest criminal industry in the world. It is being second only to drug trafficking. This is growing and has become a grave issue across the globe.
Human trafficking in a nutshell is deception, recruitment, transportation and exploitation of men, women and children. In ancient times, when the man was not as civilised as today, the beatles magical mystery tour bus slave trade had been a lucrative business the beatles magical mystery tour bus around the world. Human beings from the African Continent and poor countries in other parts of the world were trafficked to Europe and America as slaves.
In the 21st century, governments the beatles magical mystery tour bus and global organisations are highly emphasising about the concepts on human-centred development, improvement of physical quality of life, equal distribution of development benefits and particularly safeguarding human rights and human dignity. Efforts are being made by the international organisations and countries to achieve these objectives.
From each corner of the world, voices are raised on the need for interventions and programs that make the human life more comfortable and convenient. Human-focused development has come into the forefront of global development agenda. With all these new interventions to develop mankind creating an environment with spiritual and physical freedom, the slave trade has spread all over the world in a disguised form, as offering the beatles magical mystery tour bus better employment opportunities.
The United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UN ODC) observes that millions of men, women and children in many parts of the world have willingly or unwillingly become victims the beatles magical mystery tour bus of this organised crime. This is an unpardonable offense, the beatles magical mystery tour bus a gross violation of human rights and ruining of human values in the context of the so-called civilised world today.
Considering the gravity of this human problem, a number of countries including USA emphasised the need for some concrete actions to combat human trafficking at the 68th UN General Assembly in December 2013. The assembly passed a resolution to declare 30 July as World Day against Trafficking in Persons. Accordingly, the first world day against human trafficking is marked on 30 July 2014.
This day was decided on par with first adoption of The UN global Action Plan to combat trafficking persons on 30 July 2010. The UN resolution the beatles magical mystery tour bus invites governments and international the beatles magical mystery tour bus organisations concerned with human wellbeing the beatles magical mystery tour bus to highlight and raise awareness on the plight of victims and potential victims of human trafficking.
Encouraging governments to take improving interventions, the beatles magical mystery tour bus sharing best practices and information, increased coordination among stakeholders and taking efforts to rehabilitate the beatles magical mystery tour bus victims are the key objectives in declaration of the day. Declaration of such a day has a vital relevancy and practicality when considering the large numbers of human beings who become victimised in different ways around the world.
Modern slavery or human trafficking is growing faster due to several factors. There is an increasing demand for cheap labour from many parts of the world. The main target group of traffickers are economically the beatles magical mystery tour bus disadvantaged and vulnerable individuals, both men and women, the beatles magical mystery tour bus in developing countries. Such individuals become easy prey of traffickers due to poverty, the beatles magical mystery tour bus social exclusion, armed conflicts, natural calamities and marginalisation. Individuals in these groups are lured to migrate to so-called rich countries seeking better job opportunities.
Traffickers the beatles magical mystery tour bus take advantage of their poverty the beatles magical mystery tour bus and vulnerability and earn colossal sums of money. They collect money from the three parties, traffikees, local agents and agents in foreign destinations. It is a lucrative business the beatles magical mystery tour bus for traffickers. They produce a rosy picture on the availability of job opportunities, comforts and salaries offered. Individuals the beatles magical mystery tour bus isolated geographically from the rest of the world and are far from modern knowledge do not have access to formal sources of information. They fully rely on the false information provided by traffickers. It is after reaching the foreign destination that they realise the reality. Then they are at the mercy of the laws and regulations of that country, encountering a number of unexpected consequences, hardships and problems.
Physical and mental agonies they undergo differ from country to country and person to person. There are substantial records and complaints on breach of contract agreements, harsh working conditions, lengthy delay in payment of salaries or lower salaries than the agreed long hours of work, exploitation of labour, assaulting and other kinds of physical harassments, sexual abuse, lack of mobility the beatles magical mystery tour bus and communication obstructions.
Some people return to their own country after few months with empty hands. Many youngsters misled by traffickers are not able to reach their anticipated destinations and employment. The clandestine nature of trafficking process prevents organisations to collect accurate information and data to ascertain the beatles magical mystery tour bus the gravity of this global issue. Yet, UN observes that it is taking place on a wide scale across the globe and is fast growing. Millions of people become victims annually. the beatles magical mystery tour bus Economically and socially marginalised community members of developing countries in Asia, Africa and Caribbean regions have become easy targets for traffickers.
the beatles magical mystery tour bus According to the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE), around 24% of the total country labour force is employed abroad. The number leaving abroad for employment on legal means increased from 42,625 in year 1990 to 146,456 in 2011. Total number of departures the beatles magical mystery tour bus through registered the beatles magical mystery tour bus and unregistered agencies amounted to 279,482 in 2012. Out of total departures, nearly 60% is said to be women. The majority of them leave as domestic servants. Skilled category of youth employed abroad is comparatively less. Foreign employment reduces the burden of the Government on unemployment. It is a vital source of export earnings, generating 4.65 billion a year, about 35% of total export earnings in Sri Lanka.
Despite this encouraging performance, involuntary trafficking of persons for forced labour from Sri Lanka to so-called affluent countries in Europe and oil rich Middle East countries is a growing illegal business. The Trafficking In Persons Report of the State Department, USA, 2010 ranked Sri Lanka in the level 2 category in terms of human trafficking in the world. This is one level above the worst category. In 2000, the UN adopted a protocol to prevent human trafficking and take action against traffickers. Sri Lanka has ratified this protocol, but the report states that Sri Lanka has not achieved considerable improvement in combating trafficking persons since then.
Trafficking Sri Lankan men and women for the purpose of forced labour in foreign destinations is taking place via legal and illegal means. It is reported that even many of the women travel abroad through registered agencies and SLBFE become victims in their workplaces.
In the recruitment process for foreign employment, there is a number of links involved. Job seeking youth in poor rural families approach recruiting agencies through a local agent. From local agent, the chain involves recruiting agency, agent in the foreign country and the employer. If anyone of the above links act in a deceptive manner or does not provide accurate information, the recruit become victimised in the foreign destination.Those who seek the assistance of traffickers outside registered agencies and SLBFE face more severe problems. This illegal process from beginning to end takes place on the sly and in a hurry. There is no systematic course of action adopted. The hidden objective of traffickers the beatles magical mystery tour bus is to take money from job seekers and get them to leave Sri Lanka in a hurry rather than providing a reasonable service.
The youth are willing to go for foreign jobs keeping the small property they own and even their life at risks rather than being unemployed in Sri Lanka. These youth are trafficked in groups illegally, in jam packed small vessels. There are substantial number of incidents reported on the hardships and agonies undergone by them in foreign countries if they somehow managed to reach the destination. Most groups are deserted in some other countries on the way before they reach agreed destinations.
Most Sri Lankan the beatles magical mystery tour bus women leave for domestic servitude in Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar and they suffer the beatles magical mystery tour bus enormous misery. Even the women travel through legal means are deceived by local agents and recruiting agencies. They are lacking knowledge on labour migration laws, interests of foreign employer and socio cultural realities in job offering countries. the beatles magical mystery tour bus There is no service contract signed in many cases.
Women have to work from early morning to late night, need to serve for several masters, susceptible to sexual abuse at the hands of master, his children the beatles magical mystery tour bus and friends. They are also subject to physical harassment. The SLBFE is not in a position to help in such situations since the employees are at the mercy of laws and regulations of the country and the employer concerned.
Apart from trafficking people across the national border, women and girls from rural and estate the beatles magical mystery tour bus sectors are being trafficked within the country from rural to urban households as domestic servants where they undergo massive physical and mental hardships. The boys between the ages of eight to 14 years are transported with or without the beatles magical mystery tour bus the wishes of parents in the guise of employment offering. Some children are kidnapped, deceived and produced to employers in the city. Such small children are being used to serve in shops, hotels, mines, construction sites and other different types of laborious works.
Heavy work and lengthy hours of working under harsh conditions cause many of these children to leave the place soon and engage in other illegal or anti social activities. Boys in fishing villages in