Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking
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China, often with the help of a facilitator, seeking food, work, freedom, and better
life prospects. Trafficking networks of Korean-Chinese and North Koreans (usually
men) operate along the China- North Korean border, reportedly working with
Chinese and North Korean border guards to recruit women for marriage or
prostitution in China. North Korean women often pass through many hands, with
multiple brokers involved in their trafficking. In some cases, friends, neighbors,
and village acquaintances transfer them to traffickers. Some vulnerable North
Korean women who make their own way to China are lured, drugged, or
kidnapped by traffickers upon arrival. Others are offered jobs but are subsequently
trafficked into involuntary servitude through forced marriages to Chinese men,
often of Korean ethnicity, into forced prostitution in brothels, or the Internet sex
industry. Some are forced to serve as hostesses in nightclubs and karaoke bars.
Many victims are unable to speak Chinese and are held as prisoners by their
traffickers. If found by Chinese authorities, victims are deported back to North
Korea where they may face harsh punishment, and may be subject to forced labor
in DPRK labor camps. NGOs and researchers estimate that tens of thousands of
undocumented North Koreans currently live in northeast China, and as many as 70
percent of them are women. There is no reliable information on how many of these
North Koreans are or have been trafficked, but their status in China as economic
migrants who may be deported to North Korea makes them particularly vulnerable
to trafficking. Chinese authorities cracked down on cross-border movement in
advance of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and they seem to have continued
strict enforcement throughout 2009. Reports indicate corruption involving North
Korean border guards facilitating cross-border movement, particularly involving
traffickers and professional border crossers.
Money Laundering
Drug Trafficking
Maritime Piracy
Terrorism
AUSTRALIA
Middle East - Spectacular and horrific bombings in Dhahran, Tel Aviv, and
Jerusalem dominated terrorist incidents in the Middle East in 1996 and nearly
doubled the number of terrorist casualties to 837 from 445 in 1995. The truck
bombing of the residential of the residential building occupied by US military
personnel participating in the Joint Task Force/Southwest Asia near Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia, on 25 June killed 19 US citizens and wounded over 500 persons.
Several groups claimed responsibility, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and
Saudi Government continue their investigation into the incident. In Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem, suicide bombs in February and March killed 65 persons, including three
US citizens. The radical Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) was responsible
for three of the bombings, and HAMAS and the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) both
claimed responsibility for the fourth. In December the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the shooting of an Israeli woman
and her son. Israeli extremists were responsible for several attacks in 1996 that
resulted in the deaths of at least two Palestinians.
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Submitted by:
Johannah V. Ali
Submitted to:
Mrs. Lilibeth
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