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It may take the form of sex trafficking, forced or bonded labor, domestic servitude or the recruitment of child soldiers. Modern slavery affects women, children and men alike. The U. According to the report, Colombia, Guyana and Chile are most adequately meeting standards, while Belize and Venezuela are neither meeting minimum standards nor making significant efforts to do so. The Bolivian government has made an effort to prevent trafficking, but the number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is significant or increasing.
The absence of sufficient programming still characterizes Bolivia as a high-risk country for human trafficking. Within the country, Bolivian men, women, and children are found in forced labor in domestic work, mining, ranching, and agriculture. We are training a team of rural indigenous women as Community Defenders to educate, advocate and coordinate anti-trafficking actions and encourage cooperation between government agencies. The project is educating communities and local officials on human trafficking, and will share successes and methodologies so that they may be applied to future initiatives against slavery in indigenous areas.
The goal is to encourage local cooperation in the prevention of human trafficking and to provide assistance to victims and those at risk. Aside from violating an individual's human rights, trafficking "destroys families and communities, weakens the rule of law, strengthens criminal networks, and offends universal concepts of human decency," according to the report.
Slavery quietly thrives in situations of little public awareness and corruption among public officials. By using grassroots methods to reach at-risk populations, we believe that the atrocities caused by human trafficking can be curbed.
