80% Of Human
Trafficking is of Women
and Children, Report
Reveals
An investigation by the
Organización
Internacional para las
Migraciones (OIM)
reveals that 80% of
victims of human
trafficking are women
and children, who are
brought to Costa Rica
and then sent to Mexico
and Japan, among other
countries, where they
are then exploited as
cheap labour and sex.
The information was
released during a press
conference that was
attended by the
vice-minister of
Gobernación y Policía,
Ana Durán; the president
of the Instituto
Nacional de las Mujeres
(Inamu), Jeanette
Carrillo; a regional
representative of the
OIM for Centroamérica
and México, José Pires;
Ana Carcedo, of the Red
Feminista (women's
group); and Rodolfo Jugo,
director of 9-1-1.
The trafficking of
humans is a crime
established in article 3
of the "Protocolo para
Prevenir, Reprimir y
Sancionar la Trata de
Personas, especialmente
Mujeres y Niños", which
forms part of the "Convención
contra la Delincuencia
Organizada Transnacional"
which was ratified by
Costa Rica in 2002.
To curb this type of
crime, the OIM works
across borders.
I Costa Rica, with the
objective of preventing
this type of crime and
informing women and the
population in general,
the OIM, in
co-ordination with the
Inamu, Red Feminista and
the 9-1-1 emergency
system will begin Monday
an awareness campaign.
"The campaign aims to
create conscience of the
population about the
problem of trafficking
women, to help promote
reports and channel
information through
911", said Agueda Marín,
co-ordinator for the OIM.
The campaign will
include television and
radio spots explaining
the situation of women
victims, who are living
in slave conditions and
receiving little
compensation for the
work, who have their
documentation taken from
them and suffer physical
and sexual abuse.
The campaign is part of
a project to prevent
human trafficking in
Costa Rica and is
financed by the Swiss
Embassy. |
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