Child Trafficking
DATE : JULY 13rd, 2013
NAME : ANDRI KURNIAWAN SUTANTO
ADDRESS : KAPTEN KASIHIN STREET 1/141A TULUNGAGUNG, EAST JAVA, INDONESIA
PHONE NUMBER : +6287755179329
E-MAIL : andri.k.sutanto@gmail.com
SCHOOL NAME : SEPULUH NOPEMBER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SURABAYA
PARENT SIGNATURE :
(TAN DJONI)
Child Trafficking as a Threat to Future Generations Over Easter weekend in April 2001 a story flashed around the world about a ‘slave ship’, the Etireno, off the coast of Nigeria in West Africa. Journalists reported that several hundred slave children were on board. The reality turned out to be different and was a classic case of trafficking in West Africa, where young children are routinely employed far from home as domestic servants and in other menial jobs, sometimes paid, and sometimes not. Hundreds are taken each year from countries in West Africa such as Bénin and Togo across the sea to Gabon, a richer oil-exporting country. They are usually taken across a land border to Nigeria and then on by canoe to Gabon, across 500 kilometers of open sea. In most cases, they work for other West Africans in Gabon’s capital, Libreville. When the ship, the Etireno, arrived back at its port of departure, Cotonou in Bénin, on 17 April 2001, 43 children disembarked: 23 were aged between five and 14, and were taken to Terre des Hommes’ Oasis accommodation shelter in Cotonou, while 17 older boys over the age of 14 were placed under the protection of another NGO, SOS Children’s Village; three babies remained with the women accompanying them. Western journalists reported that there were far fewer children than expected and that they did not look like slaves. The conclusion was that 35 out of the 40 children were being trafficked to Gabon (18 of the 23 under
NAME : ANDRI KURNIAWAN SUTANTO
ADDRESS : KAPTEN KASIHIN STREET 1/141A TULUNGAGUNG, EAST JAVA, INDONESIA
PHONE NUMBER : +6287755179329
E-MAIL : andri.k.sutanto@gmail.com
SCHOOL NAME : SEPULUH NOPEMBER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SURABAYA
PARENT SIGNATURE :
(TAN DJONI)
Child Trafficking as a Threat to Future Generations Over Easter weekend in April 2001 a story flashed around the world about a ‘slave ship’, the Etireno, off the coast of Nigeria in West Africa. Journalists reported that several hundred slave children were on board. The reality turned out to be different and was a classic case of trafficking in West Africa, where young children are routinely employed far from home as domestic servants and in other menial jobs, sometimes paid, and sometimes not. Hundreds are taken each year from countries in West Africa such as Bénin and Togo across the sea to Gabon, a richer oil-exporting country. They are usually taken across a land border to Nigeria and then on by canoe to Gabon, across 500 kilometers of open sea. In most cases, they work for other West Africans in Gabon’s capital, Libreville. When the ship, the Etireno, arrived back at its port of departure, Cotonou in Bénin, on 17 April 2001, 43 children disembarked: 23 were aged between five and 14, and were taken to Terre des Hommes’ Oasis accommodation shelter in Cotonou, while 17 older boys over the age of 14 were placed under the protection of another NGO, SOS Children’s Village; three babies remained with the women accompanying them. Western journalists reported that there were far fewer children than expected and that they did not look like slaves. The conclusion was that 35 out of the 40 children were being trafficked to Gabon (18 of the 23 under
Bibliography: 1. ILO, A Future without Child Labour,2002, p. 18. In a leaflet issued on 12 June 2003 to mark World Day Against Child Labor, ILO-IPEC modified this estimate to suggest that 1.2 million children were being trafficked every year. 2. Dottridge, Mike. Kids as Commodities ? Child Trafficking and What to do about it p. 17. A CASE STUDY – THE ETIRENO (2001). International Federation Terre des Hommes, Terre des Hommes Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland and Terre des Hommes Germany. 2004