SPORTS AID NETWORK uses the power of sports to combat human trafficking. Due to inadequacy of funding, our current efforts on human trafficking have been invested in 2 nations of those we are operating in. South Sudan on (TIER 3 ) and Uganda on (TIER 2) per the UN report.
Uganda Trafficking Profile:
Uganda is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children
subjected to forced labor and sex traffcking. Ugandan children as young as seven are exploited in forced labor in agriculture, fishing, forestry, cattle herding, mining, stone quarrying, brick making, carpentry, steel manufacturing, street vending, bars, restaurants, and domestic service. Traffickers exploit girls and boys in prostitution. Recruiters target girls and women aged 13-24 years for domestic sex trafficking. It is estimated there are between 7,000 to 12,000 children involved in prostitution in Uganda. An international organization reported that most internal trafficking victims are Ugandans, the majority of which are exploited in forced begging. Young boys and girls were the most vulnerable to internal trafficking, mainly for labor or begging in Kampala and other urban areas. Authorities subjected some prisoners in pre-trial detention to forced labor.
Traffickers subject some children from the DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Sudan to forced agricultural labor and exploitation in prostitution in Uganda.
South Sudanese, Congolese, Rwandese, Burundi, and Somalese children in refugee settlements in western and northern Uganda are vulnerable to trafficking. Some Ugandans abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) prior to 2006 remain unaccounted for and may remain captive.
Thousands of Ugandans have also been reported to be held up in the Arab world due to human trafficking especially in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Iran.
South Sudan Trafficking Profile:
As reported over the past five years, human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in South Sudan, and traffickers exploit victims from South Sudan abroad. South Sudanese women and girls, particularly those from rural areas or who are internally displaced, are vulnerable to domestic servitude throughout the country. Male occupants of the household sexually abuse some of these women and girls or traffickers force them to engage in commercial sex acts. South Sudanese and foreign businesspeople subject South Sudanese girls to sex trafficking in restaurants, hotels, and brothels in urban centers—at times with the involvement of corrupt law enforcement officials. Children working in construction, market vending, shoe shining, car washing, rock breaking, brick making, delivery cart pulling, gold mining, and begging may be victims of forced labor. Families force girls into marriages, at times as compensation for inter-ethnic killings or as a way to survive severe food insecurity; traffickers may then subject some of these girls to sexual slavery or domestic servitude. South Sudanese and foreign business owners recruit men and women from neighboring countries—especially Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Somalia—as well as South Sudanese women and children, with fraudulent offers of employment opportunities in hotels, restaurants, and construction, and force them to work for little or no pay or subject them to sex trafficking. Some traffickers operate in organized networks within the country and across borders. East African migrants transiting through South Sudan to North Africa are vulnerable to forced labor and sex trafficking.
Violent conflict continues throughout the year, increasing the number of internally displaced persons from 1.9 to two million and creating approximately 2.28 million refugees as of February 2019 most of whom are seeking refugee in Uganda. These groups, including orphaned children, are at increased risk of trafficking and other forms of exploitation within South Sudan and neighboring countries. Unaccompanied minors in camps for refugees or internally displaced persons are particularly vulnerable to abduction for sex or labor trafficking. Inter-ethnic abductions, as well as abductions by external criminal elements, continue between some communities in South Sudan, especially in legacy Jonglei, Unity, and Upper Nile states. Traffickers subject abductees to forced labor or sex trafficking. An international organization estimated government and opposition-affiliated forces recruited more than 19,000 child soldiers since the start of the conflict in 2013, and armed groups continued to recruit and use children during the reporting period. Government forces use children to fight and perpetrate violence against other children and civilians; to serve as scouts, escorts, cooks, and cleaners; or to carry heavy loads while on the move. According to the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan signed in September 2018, the parties committed to refrain from the recruitment or use of child soldiers by armed forces or militias in contravention of international conventions. Both groups continued to retain, recruit, and use child soldiers during the reporting period, including on the front-line, and evidence persists of the widespread re-recruitment of children. Experts note more children fight on behalf of locally organized armed groups rather than formally organized groups with centralized command and control structures. International observers reported opposition groups recruiting and using child soldiers in the country’s legacy states, including Unity and Western Equatoria.
Sports and Human Trafficking combating projects:
In 2003, the vocalist claimed that Bubbles cleaned his bedroom and shared his toilet. order cialis djpaulkom.tvAnyone can join us in the fight against human trafficking. Physical activity and play have proved to serve as valuable methods for the rehabilitation and social reintegration of human trafficking victims into society.
We believe sports can play a significant role in helping victims of human trafficking overcome their trauma. Sports aid network uses the following methods in combating human trafficking :
1: We are establishing platforms for increasing awareness. At our local tournaments, we teach the indicators of human trafficking so anyone can help identify a potential trafficking victim in their different families and villages. We make Human trafficking awareness training kits, DVDs , fliers, TV and radio programs available for individuals, businesses, first responders, law enforcement, educators, and the general public.
2. We are looking for partners with whom to fundraise and establish a sports resource center that will also house a transition center that will provide interim care and support to athletes, children, mothers, and all victims of human trafficking. We believe sports will help traumatized children, youth, and women to forget the misery they went through as victims of ruthless traffickers.
3. We use sports events to encourage victims of trafficking discouraged by social stigma and fear of punitive law enforcement actions to report and share with us their stories and if possible provide counselling , legal assistance and other available mechanisms that encourage victims to be assisted in the investigation and prosecution.
4. Introduce campaigns against trafficking and sexual exploitation designed mainly to raise awareness among vulnerable groups on how to identify , prevent , and report trafficking and gender based violence. We host sports awareness-raising events and provide projectors for locals to watch and discuss films about human trafficking. For example, learn how modern slavery exists today; watch an investigative documentary about sex trafficking; or discover how human trafficking can affect global food supply chains among others.
5. We plan to partner with labor recruiting companies , local sports stakeholders and government ministries to Encourage them to take steps to investigate and prevent human trafficking in their supply chains and publish fliers and any information we can provide for consumer awareness aimed towards making all necessary efforts to address the labor exploitation of nationals working abroad and foreign nationals working within.
6. We Encourage our local schools , and education institutions we work with in our sports programs to include modern slavery in their curricula and teachings . We also educate athletes , parents, educators, or school administrators of how traffickers target school-aged children.
7. We encourage volunteer professionals willing to travel to Africa on short term missions to help and support anti-trafficking efforts in the different villages and communities we operate in.
8. We arrange to Meet with or write to our local leaders and government representatives to let them know we care about combating human trafficking and introduce them to our sports programs then ask them what they are doing or willing to do with us to address it.
