the U.S: Why does prostitution happen?
Rwanda: Why does prostitution happen?
- Prostitution cases also involve nonpayment or limited payment of wages, restriction of movement, isolation from the community, and physical and sexual abuse as means of keeping victims in compelled service.
- Sometimes workers are victims of faulty recruitment practices and have large debts for promised employment in the United States. That makes them susceptible to debt bondage and involuntary servitude.
- Most women involved with prostitution have drug addictions and go into the trade to fuel their habit.
- Both adult and children are found in prostitution; child victims are often runaway and homeless youth.
Facts:
- Rwanda is the destination country for women and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking.
- Older females offer vulnerable younger girls room and board, eventually pushing them into prostitution to pay for their keep.
- The Government of Rwanda does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.
- The government demonstrated inadequate anti-trafficking law enforcement because it failed to bring any trafficking offenders to justice.
Laws Regarding Prostitution
- Most Rwandan women were affected by the Rwandan genocide and were forced to go into prostitution.
- A night with a Rwandan prostitute is less than a dollar, while a night with a U.S woman ranges from $60-$400.
- Rwandan girls are trafficked within the country for domestic servitude, as well as for commercial sexual exploitation
In Rwanda:
In the U.S.:
FAILED TO CONVICT ANY TRAFFICKERS.
- Article 28 of the Law on Prevention and Punishment of Gender-Based Violence (Law No. 59/2008) outlaws,
- but does not define, sex trafficking and prescribes sufficiently stringent punishments of 15 to 20 years’ imprisonment, penal ties that are commensurate with those prescribed for other serious offenses, such as rape.
- Article 8 of the Law Regulating Labor in Rwanda (13/2009) prohibits forced labor
- Article 167 prescribes sufficiently stringent punishments of three to five years imprisonment
- Article 72 prohibits subjecting children to slavery, child trafficking, debt bondage, forced labor, armed conflict, and child prostitution .
- Article 168 prescribes punishment of six months to 20 years’ imprisonment for these offenses.
- Title 18 Part I Ch. 117 Sec. 2422- if you persuade someone to come to the United States to do prostitution or any other sexual activity you will be charged with criminal offences be fined and imprisoned fro 20 years.
- Title 18 Part I Ch. 117 Sec. 2424- Whoever controls their house for the purpose and use of prostitution knowing that the individual is an alien shall be fined under this title or imprisoned at least 10 years.
- Title 8 Ch. 12 Sub Ch. II Part VIII Sec. 1328- any one who imports a person into the United States for the use of prostitution is strictly forbidden and can serve up to 10 years in jail and end up paying fines.
- Title 18 Part I Ch. 67 Sec. 1384- having or doing prostitution near any military and naval base is prohibited and will be fined and be imprisoned for 1 year.
Prostitution: Rwanda and the U.S.