Human trafficking in Burkina Faso: Difference between revisions

[[Burkina Faso]] is a country of origin, transit, and destination for persons, mostly children, subjected to [[Human trafficking|trafficking]] in persons, specifically forced labor and [[forced prostitution]]. The [[Government of Burkina Faso]] provided data from the Ministry of Social Action showing that, in 2009, security forces and regional human trafficking surveillance committees intercepted 788 children Burkinabe and foreign children, 619 of whom were boys, destined for [[Exploitation of labour|exploitation]] in other countries, principally [[Côte d'Ivoire]], [[Mali]], and [[Niger]]. Child trafficking victims who remain inside Burkina Faso are usually found in large cities such as [[Ouagadougou]], [[Bobo-Dioulasso]], [[Nouna]], and [[Hounde]]. Child victims face conditions of [[forced labor]] or services as [[plantation]] and mining hands, laborers on cocoa farms, [[domestic servant]]s, beggars recruited as pupils by unaccredited Koranic schools, or captives in the [[prostitution]] trade. To a lesser extent, traffickers recruit Burkinabe women for nonconsensual commercial sexual exploitation in Europe. Women from neighboring countries like Nigeria, Togo, Benin, and Niger migrate to Burkina Faso on the promise of respectable work, but are subjected to forced labor in bars or forced prostitution.<ref name=dos/>

 

 

 

==Prosecution==