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Mozambique to act on child sex trafficking after "hairdresser" case
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 27 - 03 - 2008


Mozambique's Justice Minister Benvinda Levi on
Thursday urged tougher action against the trafficking of women and
children, many of whom are smuggled to South Africa and forced to
work in the sex trade, according to dpa.
Levi was addressing a special parliamentary hearing on human
trafficking, an issue that has dominated headlines in the country
over the past week following revelations that three girls were lured
to South Africa in January and forced to work as sex slaves for two
months.
Levi urged parliament to quickly pass draft legislation on human
trafficking and protection of minors, including stiffer jail terms
for convicted child traffickers
The case of the three young trafficking victims from the capital
Maputo has rocked Mozambique.
Earlier this week a high-level delegation of crime-fighting
officials travelled to South Africa to try to obtain the extradition
of the main female suspect in the affair who faces charges of
abduction, entrapment and document forgery in Mozambique.
The former Portuguese colony is one of the world's poorest
countries.
In an interview with state TVM television last week the three
girls, aged 16 to 20, said the woman, whom they met on the beach in
Maputo, lured to Africa's biggest economy with the promise of getting
them work as hairdressers.
Once there they were forced to work as sex slaves for nearly two
months in a brothel in a leafy suburb of the administrative capital
Pretoria, servicing up to 10 mostly older men a day, with no pay. One
girl said she was beaten when she failed to perform.
The girls escaped through the intervention of a Mozambican lawyer,
who came to know of their existence and masqueraded as a potential
client, and have since returned to Maputo.
The United Nations children's agency UNICEF has expressed alarm
over the lack of protection for children in Mozambique.
"This episode (of the three girls) calls our attention to the
serious problem of children trafficking and to the need to urgently
adopt legal instruments to curb this practice," UNHCR's Mozambique
representative Leila Pakkala said.
According to Unicef, Mozambique is both a source and transit point
for trafficked children, mostly girls aged 13 to 18 being taken to
South Africa.
Margarida Guitunga, executive Director of the Southern Africa
Network Against Trafficking of Children (SANTAC) estimates the number
of girls trafficked to South Africa each month at around 100.
South Africa, as a destination, must also immediately adopt laws
on human trafficking, she said.


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