by: bilal, drew, and marcus bonded labor and child prostitution in the united kingdom

BY: BILAL, DREW, AND MARCUS

Bonded Labor and Child Prostitution in the United

Kingdom

Bonded Labor: The Problem

•Around 17,000 migrant domestic workers from non-EU countries accompany their employers to the UK each year. The majority of which are poor women from 3rd world countries

•Many are sexually, physically, and psychologically abused by their employers.

Bonded Labor: The Problem

•Domestic workers become bonded laborers and will be forced to work in conditions not very different than those of slaves.

•Leaving for a better life and a better job without abuse and physical violence is no longer an option

Bonded Labor: The Solution:

Organizations like Oxfam, Kalayaan, the trade

unions as well as others, working with migrant

domestic workers, believe the government must

retain the domestic worker visa as a vital

protection for one of the most vulnerable groups of

workers in the UK.

BONDED LABOR: THE SOURCES

The yellow-colored areas are places from which bonded laborers come to the UK from for the most

part

Child Slavery: The Problem

• Many children, often as young as being around the age of 12, in the United Kingdom are forced to work for essentially no pay while being treated ruthlessly by their masters

•The work they must do is not only labor, but very often the children are used for sex trafficking

•Sex trafficking of children is very common, and traffickers can make upwards of sums of money like $250,000.

“Not For Sale” is an organization combating human trafficking

Child Slavery: Statistics

In 1996, there were an estimated 287 children being trafficked.

This number has now increased to 4,000 girls alone each year.

Traffickers use Dublin, Ireland, as a stepping stone for the trafficking in order to avoid the authorities at main airports

Child Slavery: Prostitution

Mainly brought in from Africa for prostitution

Traffickers had terrified the children into submission with a mixture of physical violence and rape, and the psychological threat of voodoo.

Sometimes fly straight through airport security at major airports, unnoticed.

The caption reads:

“Abuse through

prostitution steals

children’s lives”

Child Slavery: Cannabis Farms

Hundreds of young children illegally trafficked into the UK are the new victims of Britain's booming cannabis trade

Experts warn that children as young as 13 are being smuggled from south-east Asia to work as "slaves" for gangs in dangerous conditions and being kept captive in towns and suburbs across the UK. They believe there has been a five-fold increase in this trade in the past 12 months.

Child Slavery: Data

More than a million children are

working illegally in Britain,

according to research by Child

Poverty Action Group and the

Save the Children Fund

Child Slavery Data

Between 15% and 26% of 11 year olds and between 36% and 66% of 15 year olds are enslaved

Child Slavery: Prostitution

There are an estimated 287 children in prostitution in the United Kingdom

Children as young as 11 are enslaved in prostitution in the UK. Of 100 girls, under 18, who are in touch with Streets and Lanes Project workers last year, the average age was 14 and the youngest was 11. Older pimps exploit them and lock them up in bedsits and often deny them access to food or a toilet

Child Slavery: Military

The UK is also the only European country to send minors routinely into battle. There are currently 6,000-7,000 under-18s in the armed forces.

Of the 6,500 children in the United Kingdom’s armed forces, 800 of them are girls

This pie chart shows where the child slaves are working. More than half of the child slaves are working in agricultural slavery

This graph shows the number of child slaves compared to the number of adult slaves. As you can see, the children greatly outnumber the adults.

Action Plan

• We can volunteer for local organizations such as:• Not for Sale• Polaris Project• And others

• We could set up a website to raise awareness for human trafficking around the world

• Gain support to help major organizations on a larger scale• Recruit volunteers

Works cited

Kalayaan. "Parliamentary Briefing: proposed changes to the domestic worker visa." Kalayaan. Kalayaan, n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. <www.kalayaan.org.uk/documents/Kalayaan%20Oxfam%20Briefing%20Paper%20final.pdf>.

Toh, Jacob. Child Prostitute . N.d. Child Prostitutes, England. Afronline. Web. 26 Oct. 2011.

Musiyiwa, Ambrose . "Child Trafficking in the UK." OhmyNews. OhmyNews, 25 July 2006. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. <english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=5&no=293231&rel_no=6 >.

Patt, Prof. Martin, "Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery – United Kingdom UK", http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/UK.htm, [accessed 10/26/2011]

"United Kingdom." Worst Forms of Child Labour Data. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. <www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/united-kingdom.html >

Works Cited (Cont.)

Lakhani, Nina. "Children trafficked from Asia to UK to work in cannabis factories - Crime, UK - The Independent." The Independent | News | UK and Worldwide News | Newspaper. independent.co.uk, 23 July 2007. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/children-trafficked-from-asia-to-uk-to-work-in-cannabis-factories-403251.html>.

Catcheside, Kim. "BBC NEWS | UK | Child prostitutes' sad stories." BBC News - Home. BBC, 27 June 2003. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/

Brindley, Madeleine. "Children groomed for sex trafficking."WalesOnline. WalesOnline, 9 Nov. 2004. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2004/11/09/children-groomed-for-sex-trafficking-50082-14850793/

BBC. Bonded Labor Sources. N.d. Maps, Western Europe. BBC. Web. 26 Oct. 2011.