{"id":9838,"date":"2022-07-27T15:37:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/tip-report-preventing-protecting-and-prosecuting-traffickers-in-eswatini"},"modified":"2022-07-27T16:16:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T16:16:05","slug":"tip-report-preventing-protecting-and-prosecuting-traffickers-in-eswatini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/tip-report-preventing-protecting-and-prosecuting-traffickers-in-eswatini","title":{"rendered":"TIP REPORT: Preventing, Protecting, and Prosecuting Traffickers in Eswatini."},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>The assessment of 188 countries and territories, including the United States, found that, \u201cTraffickers lure voluntary migrants, especially women and girls from rural areas, from neighboring countries, such as Malawi, to cities in Mozambique, Eswatini, or South Africa with promises of employment or education, and then they exploit those victims in domestic servitude and sex trafficking. With two-quarters of 2022 behind us, laws that mandate in favor of freedom of association.\u201d The TIP report was released by U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken in Washington, D.C. at a launch ceremony at the State Department. Blinken emphasized that, \u201cmost comprehensive sources of information anywhere on anti-trafficking efforts by governments.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

The rating Eswatini received is because, \u201cThe Government of Eswatini does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so,\u201d and this is why, \u201cEswatini was downgraded to Tier 2 Watch List.\u201d Ten countries were downgraded from Tier 2 to Tier 2 Watch List.<\/p>\n

\u201cCorruption and official complicity in trafficking crimes remained significant concerns. In recent years, senior government officials were investigated, prosecuted, and convicted for trafficking crimes or the abuse of trafficking victims under the care of the government; however, these cases faced significant delays due to a backlog of court cases,\u201d the report found. Additionally, \u201cFor the second consecutive year, criminal prosecution remained pending against the Director of the National Children\u2019s Coordination Unit in the Deputy Prime Minister\u2019s office for allegedly kidnapping, trafficking, and sexually assaulting a child from 2017 through 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

On trafficking people, the TIP report reveals that, \u201cSome traditional healers target individuals with albinism, who may be vulnerable to both sex and labor trafficking. Traffickers exploit Mozambican girls in bars, roadside clubs, overnight stopping points, and restaurants along the southern transport corridor that links Maputo with Eswatini and South Africa,\u201d explaining further, \u201cMozambican boys migrate to Eswatini to wash cars, herd livestock, and sell goods; some subsequently become victims of forced labor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReports allege traffickers bribe officials to move victims within the country and across national borders to South Africa and Eswatini.\u201d Even students have fallen victim to human trafficking. \u201cUniversity students from Sri Lanka and Eswatini who traveled to Taiwan under similarly deceptive circumstances have been subjected to coerced labor with extremely harsh working conditions in slaughterhouses and meat processing factories,\u201d the TIP report published.<\/p>\n

The State Department report does make several recommendations. One of the suggestions is for Eswatini to, \u201cIncrease efforts to investigate, prosecute, and convict traffickers, including allegedly complicit officials.<\/p>\n

Other African countries were highlighted, including Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and South Africa, among others. Botswana is said to have \u201ccooperated with the Governments of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Eswatini\u201d to resolve its own cases. Namibia is the only country in Sub-Saharan Africa which has ranked well in Tier 1 in the 2021 and 2022 Trafficking in Persons report.<\/p>\n

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