Human Trafficking - Eye on Kenya

08/04/2022

Human trade is alive and thriving across East Africa

Pictured: Nepalese women arrested in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa as police investigate international human trafficking.

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Human trade is alive and thriving across East Africa

Pictured: Nepalese women arrested in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa as police investigate international human trafficking. https://buff.ly/3ukXidS

12/07/2021

16/06/2021

The eyesore of

Over 1,000 girls trafficked from Uganda are living in Kenya. Sadly, they live in deplorable conditions and local CSOs helping with the rescue efforts are overwhelmed due to shortage of resources. This is a story written to give the world a true picture of the the suffering of victims of human trafficking. Out of the 120 girls rescued recently, 28 of them are pregnant and 18 have contracted S*xually Transmitted Diseases.

Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2021/06/human-trafficking-over-100-ugandan-girls-rescued-in-eastleigh/

04/03/2021

20/01/2021

In December 2020, the African Women in Media in partnership with African Union (AU), International Labour Migration (ILO), and International Organization for Migration (IOM) held the Labour Migration Media Awards ceremony where eight winners were announced. I am happy to have been among them.

In December 2020, African Women in Media (AWiM), in partnership with the African Union (AU), International Labour Migration (ILO) and […]

03/12/2020

Human trafficking is estimated to be a 150-billion US dollar industry and one of the fastest-growing transnational criminal activities of the 21st century. In Kenya, the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection investigates and prosecutes cases of human trafficking and smuggling of migrants. Through the Better Migration Management programme funded by Germany and the EU the Unit received training and equipment. Today, UNODC as implementing partner of the programme handed over vehicles to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations in Nairobi to support efforts to counter human trafficking.
Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) European Union in Kenya UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

11/11/2020

NAIROBI, Kenya Nov 11 – It has been five years now, but the memories of his brother are still fresh in Nixon’s mind. He speaks openly about his condition, but remains distressed by the circumstances under which he lost his elder brother, Enoch Lugadiru. We met Nixon Lugadiru, a father of six, wh...

23/10/2020

Africa has become a major source of illegal migration driven by organised crime networks that prey on vulnerable communities.

13/10/2020

NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 12 – A new report has identified additional smuggling routes, once again revealing Kenya’s intricate web of extensive criminal activity with well established local and international networks. The report comes barely three months after the US Trafficking in Persons Report 2020,...

07/10/2020

Engagement with vulnerable local communities to create awareness, share best practices and opportunities is key to improve prevention and prosecution of child trafficking in Kenya with the primary goal being to protect children.

Looking for homegrown solutions, focusing on prevention and training community leaders on how to identify loopholes likely to lead to child trafficking and hinder justice are also important in identifying stronger and effective partnerships and coordination among all stakeholders with the community included as a valuable partner in the war against human trafficking.

"Anppcan Regional Office" Muga thanks for the important forum held in Kibera on 2nd October 2020.

17/09/2020

A new report has identified additional smuggling routes once again revealing Kenya’s intricate web of extensive criminal activity with well established local and international connections.

The report comes barely three months after the US Trafficking in Persons Report 2020, placed Kenya in the list of countries with the worst cases

13/09/2020

The agony of child labor trafficking in Kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya Sep 13 – Sharon (not her real name) left her home in Western Kenya in 2017 to live with her paternal aunt in Nairobi. Her mother was happy that her daughter could finally join a good school in the city with the help of a ‘doting’ aunt. The opportunity came at the right […]

12/09/2020

“The minors were being transported in three motor vehicles along the Marsabit-Isiolo highway heading towards Isiolo general direction at Ngaremara area,” the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said in a police report.

According to the DCI, illegal immigrants had no relevant documents in their possession.

Kenyan security forces said Thursday they have rescued 16 foreigners after busting a human trafficking

12/09/2020

Authorities said one of the alleged suspects in the operation, called “Home Alone 2,” is a former sheriff’s detective from Phoenix.

03/09/2020

Four suspected Child Traffickers; Christine Ndinda, Lydia Mumo, Jacinta Mutua and Winrose Muu have today been nabbed by DCI detectives based at Machakos.

The four are connected to the trafficking of a 3 month old baby girl whose mother is reported to have sold her to the 45-year-old Christine Ndinda who had earlier taken the baby to clinic whereby she was rescued.

The child has been handed over to Children officers pending the arraignment of the four suspects.

Source: DCI

01/09/2020

International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances is marked on August 30 of each year since 2011.

According to the UN General Assembly, an enforced disappearance occurs when, "persons are arrested, detained or abducted against their will or otherwise deprived of their liberty by officials of different branches or levels of Government, or by organized groups or private individuals acting on behalf of, or with the support, direct or indirect, consent or acquiescence of the Government, followed by a refusal to disclose the fate or whereabouts of the persons concerned or a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of their liberty, which places such persons outside the protection of the law."

Here is a short video of our team - Resilience Fellowship 2020 - of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime - on our thoughts about disappearances in our different communities.

On the international day to commemorate the victims of enforced disappearances, we open the debate about the current role of organized crime in the internati...

25/08/2020

“Besides having a robust anti-trafficking law, the other pillar in countering trafficking in persons is the protection of victims. We have identified the need to establish a Government-run shelter for victims of trafficking rather than the current situation where most victims of counter-trafficking are held in cells and even at times Prisons,” CS Chelagui

In 2019, some 275 people were reported to have been trafficked.

14/08/2020

Almost every month, Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations - DCI reports at least one interception involving victims of Human Trafficking not only from Uganda but also Burundi, Rwanda and to a lesser extent Tanzania. Most of East Africa’s trafficking takes place in and through Kenya.

Traditionally the value chain of this criminal network has comprised three links.

First, are regionally based recruitment brokers who ferry people from their respective countries to Kenya. Second, are the Kenyan-based links who ‘receive’ the people and act as the country’s employment agencies. They move victims from Kenya to the host country. Third, are the counterparts who often pose as foreign employment agencies.

They are stationed in the host country and ‘receive’ people sent from Kenya: ISS Report

Ninety-six Ugandan women, mostly children and youth, were stopped at Nairobi’s international airport in January en route to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for work opportunities. The girls, who lacked proper employment papers, were victims of a well-established human trafficking ring in East Afric...

05/08/2020

Karamajong Servants: Trail of Karamajang girls trafficked from Uganda to Kenya - a report by Hussein Mohammed of KTN News Kenya

Karamajong Servants: Trail of Karamajang girls trafficked from Uganda to Kenya | Inside Source SUBSCRIBE to o...

05/08/2020

Justice Department to announce housing assistance grants for survivors

It is awarding over $35 million in housing assistance grants to 73 non-profit organizations from 33 states that provide housing and services to victims of human trafficking.

31/07/2020

Most Kenyans migrating to the Middle East for jobs are subjected to domestic servitude, s*xual abuse, torture and acute violation of terms of employment, a newly- released report says.

Nairobi, Kenya, Jul 31 – Most Kenyans migrating to the Middle East for jobs are subjected to domestic servitude, s*xual abuse, torture and acute violation of terms of employment. According to a research report released by the ENACT programme on enhancing Africa’s response to transnational orga...

30/07/2020

In marking the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons today, it is becoming clear that Covid-19 has devastated the livelihoods of millions of people, leaving them more vulnerable to global criminal networks.

The online space has particularly become the hunting ground for traffickers preying on children.

A 106 per cent rise in global reports of suspected child s*xual exploitation has been recorded.

29/07/2020

Kenyan consulate in Lebanon should respond to allegations of - .

"Another domestic worker, Linda, told CNN that Chalouhi suggested she do s*x work to save up for her repatriation fees -- and that when she instead turned to cleaning his office for money, he refused to pay her. Georgina said she was repeatedly pressured by the consul to pursue s*x work -- and that she was exploited for cash," CNN reports

Multiple women tell CNN they faced abuse and exploitation while seeking help at an African consulate in Lebanon.

27/07/2020

1.5 Million Sign Petition To Shut Down Pornhub For Child Po*******hy, S*xual Abuse

'The world is waking up to the fact that Pornhub is infested with videos of the real r**e and s*x trafficking of underage victims.'

24/07/2020

Trafficking

A new publication by Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime analyzes technological initiatives that have been developed to combat human trafficking, as well as the ways in which technology can be misused to facilitate the same illicit economy.

American historian Melvin Kranzberg once said, ‘Technology is neither good nor bad – nor is it neutral.’ The reality is that technical innovations often have ecological, social, political and econo…

18/07/2020

Though Kenya’s progress in responding to human trafficking is commendable, existing structural and procedural gaps have continued to obstruct the wheels of justice, leading to further violation of victims’ rights as well as creating loopholes for traffickers to walk scot-free.

As a signatory to international conventions against human trafficking, Kenya is also obliged under the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Act 2010 to provide ‘appropriate shelter and other basic needs’ as well as ‘psychosocial support’.

However, the law has been criticized over staring gaps that further violate the victims’ rights and give perpetrators the leeway to escape justice.

The Act recommends 30 years imprisonment and an option of paying a fine of Sh30 million watering down the seriousness of the organised crime

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/opinion/article/2001379257/lack-of-shelter-for-victims-slows-down-kenyas-war

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16/07/2020

A suspected pa******le who is facing charges of , defilement and producing pornographic videos of minors will remain in custody until his trial is concluded.

Thomas Scheller, a 71-year-old German national, who lost his bail application was ordered to be detained at the Kilimani Police Station until July 21, 2020 when his trial commences.

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13/07/2020

Burundi and South Sudan are lagging behind in the elimination of human trafficking, says US State Department Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report) released in June.

Burundi, South Sudan: EA’s weak link in human trafficking

09/07/2020

The threat of human trafficking in Kenya

A report by Aga Khan University

Victims of trafficking in Kenya face a higher risk of prosecution than their traffickers.