Trafico de personas

Human trade from Riobamba to the borders.

I. Causes

II. Government Responses

III. Trafficking & Modern-day Human Slavery

IV. Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation

V. N.G.O. Non-Governmental Organizations

VI. Possible solutions

VII. Conclusion

I. CAUSES
Some causes and facilitators of trafficking include:
• Lack of employmentopportunities
• Organized crime
• Regional imbalances
• Economic disparities
• Social discrimination
• Corruption in government
• Political instability
• Armed conflict
• Profitability
• Insufficient penalties against traffickers
• Minimal law enforcement on global sex tourism industry
• Legalprocesses that prosecute victims for prosecution instead of the traffickers[
Also the primary causes of trafficking are varied and complex, and include poverty, the lack of jobs, the lack of respect for women and children, the lack of enforcement of laws protecting people, and a general lack of education and access to information.

II. GOVERRNMENT RESPOSES 
      Ecuador’sconstitution prohibits any form of trafficking of human beings. It mandates the state to protect children against trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation.
      The Criminal Code prohibits promoting or contributing to the prostitution of another person. Punishment is imprisonment for 1 to 3 years. The code also prohibits trafficking of people; the punishment for transporting people inor out of the country for the purpose of prostitution is imprisonment for 2 years. The punishment increases to 3 to 6 years’ imprisonment in cases of aggravated circumstances, such as when the victim of trafficking is below 14 years of age or is in the custody or care of the perpetrator of the crime.
Children between ages 14 and 17 can work with the express authorization of a parent orother legal representative.
     Accordino to the children and teenager`s code the state protects children from economic exploitation and from performing sobs that interferes with the child’s education or harms the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral, or social development.Under the Labor Code, employers are obligated to keep registries stating the age, type of work, numberof hours worked, salary, and schooling status of every employee younger than 18 years and to report monthly to the Ministry of Labor and Human Resources. Violation of any Labor Code provisions regarding child labor can be punished with a fine between US$50 and US$200.

III. TRAFFICKING & MODERN-DAY HUMAN SLAVERY

Ecuador is a source, transit, and destination country for women andchildren trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. The majority of trafficking victims are children trafficked from coastal and border areas to urban centers for sexual exploitation. Ecuadorian children are trafficked into hazardous forms of labor, domestic servitude, forced to beg on the streets, work in the hospitality and commercial sectors, and perform hardlabor in mines. Some children are trafficked to neighboring countries Women are trafficked to Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, for sexual exploitation. Although most trafficking occurs within the country, Colombian women and adolescent girls are trafficked into Ecuador for sexual exploitation.

IV. Human trafficking and Sexual exploitation

There is no universally accepted definition oftrafficking for sexual exploitation. The term encompasses the organized movement of people, usually women, between countries and within countries for sex work with the use of physical coercion, deception and bondage through forced debt. However, the issue becomes contentious when the element of coercion is removed from the definition to incorporate facilitating the willing involvement in...