Child-Trafficking in Guinea-Bissau

Dear ajeebk,
yes, I took computer classes where I learned how to fix blurry pictures, but…please have a look at the subtitle of this photo to make my motives for uploading such a blurry thing more understandable. I’m sorry if you got any eye-problems because of it, but I just had to blur it.

The German news show “Tagesschau” now reported about Cavite City, a small village by the sea on the Philippines. A photographer working for “Tagesschau” took a photo that suggests that fish imported from this area could be a product of child-labor. In the picture we see a boy who is definitely less than 14 years old, making him a child, swimming in deep and murky water in the sea without any safety device like a rope to pull him back in case of an emergency or a lifesaver as he is seen carrying a basket filled with fish in one hand while swimming. As it seems when this picture was made his ship crew made him search for marine food in the sea.
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Re-upload: As far as I’m informed, a man planned to smuggle these children to Senegal. Meanwhile this so called “child-trafficking” has become a big issue in developing countries. The “smuggled goods” often are street children, but luckily there are organisations that want to put an end to this, e.g. the organisation, you get informed about on this website: “http://www.streetchildafrica.org.uk/pages/senegal.html”. They are great! They even give YOU the chance of getting involved!
Also “Domradio” says that if you want fair-trade products, you should look for labels that belong to the “Fair Wear Foundation” or “IVN Best”.
Re-upload 2: “Dortmunder Mitternachtsmission e.V.” is an aid-organisation that helps people who came to Germany through human-trafficking for example by giving them tips which institutions they should address to get support by the state or by giving them material supply. This month a lady died in Haltern am See (Germany) and the newspaper “Halterner Zeitung” says that for her own funeral she arranged that those attending this event shall not spend any money on flowers, funeral wreathes & co. and instead use the amount of money they would have spent on these things for a donation to this organisation.
Donation-account:
Stadtsparkasse Dortmund
Bank-Account: 151 003 168
BIC: 440 501 99
SEPA:DE41440501990151003168
Swift-Bic.: DORTDE33XXX
Stichwort /Keywort /Use /Verwendung /Note /Vermerk: Elli Jörgens

“Domradio” says that since 2013 there has been an increasing in child labor and many among the victims actually experience sexual abuse at least once during their time as workers. Especially children from ethnic or religious groups that endure discrimination, exclusion and poverty are at great risk of ending up as chil-laborers and /or the victims of human-traffickers.
This report made by “Domradio” also criticizes that despite knowing that human-traffickers earn a fortune with this business and bring it to a regular bank, nobody grows suspicious and let’s say orders the control of a bank account in a case like this, like where does the money come from and who gave it to this person…
Also people of the border control often are inexperienced and don’t recognize human-traffickers and their victims resulting in them simply letting these people through, meaning they probably need more education and training on this subject.
Then it should be said that for people who were brought here illegally by human-traffickers there is no such thing as a witness-protection program or psychological support as there would be for Germans and legal aliens, meaning that this underprivilege makes many victims of human-traffick insecure as to whether or not they should contact the police with their problem. This is another thing which according to this “Domradio”-report should be changed by politicians.

“Domradio” says that on May 26th on the “Katholikentag” in Leipzig (Saxony /Germany) they are going to collect money for “Straßenkinder e.V.” which is an organisation that supports underage people who are homeless, who are at risk of losing their home or who are at risk of getting forced into child-labor in order for the whole family to be able to finance a permanent home – and yes, things like these happen in Germany where this organization is active, too. For example they make sure these children get a hands-on-training to increase their chances of later getting an apprenticeship, they help them in school and they help their families find solutions to their financial problems.

“Domradio” reported on April 15th that now there is a new law against human-trafficking in Germany.
Now you can receive a sentence of up to five years in prison for:
>making use of a forced-prostitute if there is evidence that you knew she was a forced prostitute and if you don’t report to the police right after that that there is someone who gets forced into prostitution,
>for bringing someone to Germany of whom you know – and there is evidence that you know – that he or she is going to end up forced into prostitution, forced to commit a crime or forced to donate a kidney.