Tue May 10, 2011 2:18AM
Constanza Heller, Press TV, Buenos Aires
The "Latin American & Caribbean Coalition against Human Trafficking" has released a new study that says Argentina is a lucrative market for US criminal gangs for recruiting slave workers. Young men and women, even children, the study says, are the main victims.
The US Statistics Bureau has also acknowledged that more than 80% of those trafficked to the US work as sex workers under false pretenses. To fight back, and in collaboration with the United Nations, the Supreme Court and the General Attorney's office have launched a nationwide campaign to fight modern-day slavery in Argentina.
The study also suggests that Argentina has become a transit point for women being trafficked from other Latin American countries, such as Paraguay, Dominican Republic and Peru.
Mario Fernando Ganora of the Commission for People's Rights investigate labor abuses in the textile industry. He had this to say to Press TV.
But the United States is not alone. the study names Thailand, Japan, Israel, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy among other top destinations for forced labor and forced prostitution.
Other ways of slavery take place in rural areas of Buenos Aires. According to the latest information provided by the Federal Administration of Public Incomes, hundreds of rural workers were forced to complete 12 hour shifts in extremely precarious labor conditions. The Argentine president herself has urged the workers movement to denounce these illegal practices and has promised that the national government will continue to investigate the companies that fail to carry out labor standards.
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