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Trafficking Issues

However...

The government has enacted the 2013 Overseas Employment Act

There is also a government-NGO coordination committee to prevent trafficking.

  • People from Bangladesh are victim to recruitment fraud when willingly traveling to work in other countries
  • Sex trafficking occurs within Bangladesh
  • Entire families are subject to bonded labor
  • Children in poverty are forced to steal or to beg

Government Action Against Trafficking

Bangladesh is...

Bangladeshi government has done very little work against trafficking.

  • The BAIRA is still allowed to set very high recruitment fees for workers
  • Only four agencies have had their license revoked out of 65 that have engaged in illegal activities
  • The government has only funded one campaign for anti-trafficking awareness

Classified as a Tier 2 country

Source and Destination country

Children are maimed to make more money begging

Prosecution Against Trafficking

  • Those charged with labor trafficking can get five to 12 years of prison with upwards of a $600 fine
  • Sex trafficking get five years of prison to the death penalty
  • In 2013, 84 new cases of sex trafficking were investigated and two of forced labor
  • 215 cases began prosecution in 2013
  • Of 14 convicted traffickers in 2013, five were given a life sentence, eigth 10 years, and one four months.
  • The police registered 377 cases of persons involved with trafficking

Bibliography

  • http://www.unicef.org/bangladesh/Child_Abuse_Exploitation_and_Trafficking.pdf
  • http://atsec.tripod.com/atsecbangladeshchapter/id1.html
  • http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR05/006/2014/en

Bangladesh is a small country between India and Burma in East Asia

NGOs Against Trafficking

  • UNICEF
  • ATSEC
  • Amnesty International
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Bangladesh National Women Lawyer's Association

Specific Trafficking Cases

  • Forced Servitude
  • Domestic Fish Processing Industry
  • Brick Kilns
  • Shrimp Farming in the southeast
  • Tea Industry in Northeast

Human Trafficking in Bangladesh

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