|
11-07-2004
Colombia - Catagena 1,500
Children Exploited in Sex Tourism Haven
10-13-2004
Colombia: Cuerpos Marcados,
Crímenes Silenciados. Violencia Sexual Contra las Mujeres en
el Marco del Conflicto Armado.
Amnesty International Releases Report on Widespread Rape and
Sexual Enslavement with Impunity Carried Out by Left and
Right Wing Military Groups in Colombia:
In English:
"Scarred Bodies, Hidden Crimes":
Sexual Violence Against Women in the Armed Conflict
10-13-2004
Women and girls are being
increasingly caught up in Colombia's armed conflict, as
rival groups rape, mutilate and kill them, Amnesty
International says. - BBC
09-30-2004
Colombia - 60 Thousand Protest
for Indigenous Rights and End to Violence.
03-22-2004
Colombia Indigenous Face
Extiction.
02-28-2004.
Colombia Woman Charged Ran Child
Porn Website.
11-29-2003
Colombia Japan Pressured to End
Trafficking.
11-14-2003
Colombia - Holland Combats Sexual
Slavery.
August 5, 2003
Counter-Trafficking Campaign
Launched - Under the slogan "WE ALL HAVE
VALUE, WHAT WE DO NOT HAVE IS A PRICE", the International
Organization for Migration (IOM) office in Colombia launched
a counter-trafficking campaign aimed at providing
information to potential victims of trafficking.
Colombia has the third highest number of victims of
trafficking in Latin America, following the Dominican
Republic and Brazil. In Colombia between 2 and 10
people are trafficked every day for prostitution and
slavery...
June 12, 2003
IOM Warns
that Child Prostitution has Risen 100% in the Past Year
in the Spa Resort City of Santa Marta
(In
Spanish).
Colombia Japan Trafficker
Arrested 03-2003
Koichi
Hagiwara is being tried on charges of forcing two Colombian
women to engage in prostitution, a ground-breaking case in
Japan's battle against human trafficking.
Colombia
-- "Japan,
the Mecca for Trafficking in Colombian Women" -
by Fanny Polonia Molina (PDF File) - Global Alliance Against
Traffic in Women, The International Human Rights Law Group
and The Foundation Against Trafficking in Women (1999).
Colombia
-- 1999 -- "Child prostitution rings working in sex shops
throughout Colombia were raided in September 1998, freeing
370 minors aged 12-16. Twenty-nine adults were arrested. The
children where being held in slavery-like conditions, were
abused and forced into prostitution. At least 145 of the
children where found in [the major city of] Cartegena, a
busy sex-tourist destination."
From: "Colombia launches crackdown on child
prostitution," Reuters, September 26, 1998
Colombia
-- 1999 -- Like a nightmarish fairy tale in which young
girls are spirited away by monsters, five were abducted from
this three-block stretch of 125th Street in Bogota's
Miguelito neighborhood from November 1995 to July 1997. Not
one has been found.
What does she think happened to her daughter [kidnapped at
age 11], who would have turned 15 this week? "Oh God," she
sobbed. "They tell me she's been sold as a prostitute. No,
no, no. My baby."
From a
1999 Washington Post story
on the open kidnapping of young girls in Colombia by sex
traffickers.
Colombia
-- 2001 -- "Viviana is a victim of sex slavery, a
multibillion- dollar racket where women are sold as
prostitutes to mafia-style networks that stretch from Spain
and Germany to Japan and the United States." "...Viviana was
one of what the Interpol estimates are 35,000 women
trafficked out of Colombia every year, with estimated
profits of $500 million, making it second only to the
Dominican Republic in the West."
The Christian Science Monitor - "Sex
slavery racket a growing concern in Latin America" -
January 11, 2001
Colombia
-- 2000 -- "An estimated 25,000 boys and girls under age
18 work in the sex trade."
U.S. State Dept. Human Rights Report
|
/ Welcome
