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"Human trafficking

Trafficking

There have been 1 million Bangladeshi and more than 200,000 Burmese women trafficked to Karachi, Pakistan. (Indrani Sinha, SANLAAP India, "Paper on Globalization & Human Rights")

200,000 Bangladeshi women have been trafficked to Pakistan for the slave trade and prostitution. (Trafficking in Women and Children: The Cases of

200,000 Bangladeshi women were trafficked to Pakistan in the last ten years, continuing at the rate of 200-400 women monthly. (CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)       

In Pakistan, where most of trafficked Bengali women are sold there are about 1,500 Bengali women in jail and about 200,000 women and children sold into in the slave trade. (estimates by Human Rights organizations in Pakistan, Trafficking in Women and Children:

India and Pakistan are the main destinations for children under 16 who are trafficked in south Asia. (Masako Iijima, "S. Asia urged to unite against child prostitution,")

More than 150 women were trafficked to Pakistan every day between 1991 and 1993. (Indrani Sinha, SANLAAP India, "Paper on Globalization & Human Rights")

100 - 150 women are estimated to enter Pakistan illegally every day. Few ever return to their homes. ("Rights-South Asia: Slavery Still A Thriving Trade," IPS, 29 December 1997)

There are over 200,000 undocumented Bangladeshi women in Pakistan, including some 2,000 in jails and shelters. Bangladeshis comprise 80 percent, and Burmese 14 percent, of Karachi’s undocumented immigrants. (Zia Ahmed Awan, affiliate with Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid, Sindh police report in 1993, "Rights-South Asia: Slavery Still A Thriving Trade," IPS, 29 December 1997)

A Bengali or Burmese woman could be sold in Pakistan for US$1,500 - 2,500 - depending on age, looks, docility and virginity. For each child or woman sold, the police claim a 15 to 20 percent "commission." ("Rights-South Asia: Slavery Still A Thriving Trade," IPS, 29 December 1997)

Women kidnapped at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border are being sold in the marketplace for R600 per kilogram as of 1991. (CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

Auctions of girls are arranged for three kinds of buyers: rich visiting Arabs (sheiks, businessmen, visitors, state-financed medical and university students), the rich local gentry, and rural farmers. (CATW - Asia Pacific "Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific"

19,000 Pakistani children have been trafficked to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). 160,000 Nepalese women are in Indian brothels. (LHRLA, Indrani Sinha, SANLAAP India, "Paper on Globalization & Human Rights")

Orphaned girls are sold as ‘wives’ to men who may resell them (CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

Methods and Techniques of Traffickers

Bangladeshi and Burmese women are being kidnapped, married off to agents by unsuspecting parents, trafficked under false pretenses, or enticed by prospects of a better life, into brothels in Pakistan. Border police and other law enforcement agencies are well aware of the trafficking through entry points into Pakistan like Lahore, Kasur, Bahawalpur, Chhor and Badin. (Sindh police report in 1993, "Rights-South Asia: Slavery Still A Thriving Trade," IPS,)

Nepalese and Bangladeshi woman and girls are trafficked under false pretenses, such as jobs, then are forced into prostitution in brothels in Pakistan. (CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

A rise in trafficking of girls, aged 8-15, in Pakistan has occurred during this last decade. (CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacifi

Globally, human trafficking has increased in scope and it is now the third largest trade

around the world after drugs and weapons. People involved in human trafficking use women and child workers not only for sex trade but also for all other types of labour and exploit their extreme vulnerability. In South Asian countries, due to geographical proximity and relatively open borders, trafficking of women is very pronounced. Major routes have been discovered over the years that exist between Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and different parts of India, from where women are transported to Bombay. The network of trafficking is such that women and young girls reach the Gulf States from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Maldives and Nepal. Girls from these countries also find their way to Hong Kong, Thailand and eventually to United States of America, Australia and Europe.

Traffickers acquire their victims in a number of ways. Sometimes women are kidnapped outright in one country and taken forcibly to another. In other cases, victims are lured with job offers. At times, the victims are enticed to migrate voluntarily with false promises of well-paying jobs in foreign countries as models, dancers, domestic workers and so on. There are also numerous cases of women who are trapped into servitude through fake promises of lucrative marriage opportunities abroad. Information about these job and marriage opportunities is often advertised through local newspapers. In case of recruitment for sex trade, women are generally deceived by offering jobs like child-care, housekeeping or restaurant work.

There are said to be close to 160,000 Nepali women in Indian brothels. As man 200,000 Bangladeshi women have been trafficked to Pakistan in the last 10 years. According to LHRLA (Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid), a Karachi based NGO which supports victims of trafficking who cannot afford the expenses of litigation, between 100 and 150 women are estimated to enter Pakistan illegally every day.

Bangladeshi and Burmese women are kidnapped or married off to agents, trafficked under false pretences, or otherwise enticed by prospects of a better life into brothels in Pakistan. A Bengali or Burmese woman is sold in Pakistan for US$ 1,500 to 2,500, depending on age, looks, docility and virginity. According to LHRLA, there are about 200,000 women and children who have been sold into the slave trade. This is a market that Karachi's police use as a source for making money. For each women or child 'sold', the police claim a 15 to 20 per cent 'commission'.