Manglende samarbejde mellem indbyrdes mistænksomme lande og stærke interesser, som vil tjene lette penge, gør det svært at få bugt med uvæsenet endsige danne sig et fuldstændigt overblik over dets omfang – menneskehandlen rammer især piger: Læs Evis historie
JAKARTA, 6 May 2013 (IRIN): Tens of thousands of people are vulnerable to being trafficked in Southeast Asia, with governments struggling to understand and respond collectively to the problem, say experts and government officials.
A 2012 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report on human trafficking recorded more than 10.000 cases of trafficking in persons in South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific between 2007-2010, but it is unclear what the situation is today.
“Nobody has been able to convincingly demonstrate the scale of the problem, let alone come up with clear ways of how to address it,” Sverre Molland, a lecturer at the Australian National University in Canberra who specializes in human trafficking, told IRIN.
“After all these years, we are still debating what trafficking actually is,” he said, noting efforts to combat it were suffering from donor fatigue because of a lack of tangible (håndgribelige) results.
The 2000 UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons defines human trafficking as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons by means of. coercion, abduction, fraud or deception. for the purpose of exploitation”.
Child trafficking is defined as the “recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation”.
Evi´s story of horror – two hours sleep a day
In 2011, 16-year-old Evi (not her real name) left her remote village in Indonesia’s Banten Province in the hope of making more money to help her family.
“My auntie introduced me to a broker (mellemhandler) who forged (forfalskede) my travel documents so I could work,” she said, adding:
“The broker then took me to a recruitment agency in Jakarta. I just wanted to earn more money. I thought God would protect me.”
The agency arranged for Evi’s travel to Jordan and placement as a domestic worker (hushjælp) in Amman, but she soon found she was being exploited by her employer.
“I was allowed to sleep for about two hours a day, sometimes less,” said Evi, noting:
“I had to take care of four children and clean the house. The mother and auntie of the children often beat me with sandals or punched me for no reason, and sometimes my nose bled.”
Tried to commit suicide
In 2012, having endured physical abuse (overgreb) for over a year, her employer began to withhold her pay, and Evi attempted suicide by drinking a glass of kerosene (petroleum).
“My employer found me unconscious and allowed me to rest, but the next day, they made me work again,” she said.
Later, Evi ran away from her employer and roamed the streets of Amman looking for work until a local shopkeeper took her to a police station.
Jordanian police then took her to the Indonesian Embassy, which arranged for her repatriation (tilbagesendelse) to a shelter for trafficked children in Jakarta, where she is recovering.
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