Human Trafficking In Bolivia

HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN BOLIVIA

Trafficking persons is a crime that violates flagellates and violates human rights, thus constituting a crime against humanity. This offense, at present, is considered by international institutions such as slavery twenty-first century. This crime is growing disproportionately in Bolivia and the world.
Human trafficking, ranks third among the most profitableillicit enterprises in the world, and according to studies by the Organization of American States (OAS), warned that Bolivia is one of five South American countries with more cases of human trafficking, while reports of trafficking in Bolivia, divisions of trafficking in persons, estimated significant incremental growth year after year, affecting populations and age groups, most vulnerable, includingchildren, adolescents, mainly women. On the other hand the reports of international institutions, on the status of the crime of latent human trafficking in Bolivia, mentioned the concern about the prosecution, protection and crime prevention.
Reports from the U.S. embassy reveal the weakness of the Bolivian national, noting that the "government of Bolivia reported 21 prosecutions and seven peoplewith convictions for trafficking in 2009, three of the seven received conditional suspension of sentence and were released ... "For a long time this crime was regarded as a series of isolated events and not as a structural social problem, allowing it to go to the invisible, unnoticed and somewhat accepted by society itself.
Bolivia is one of five South American countries with more cases ofTrafficking in persons, according to a study by the Organization of American States (OAS) The rate of Trafficking in persons in Bolivia increased by 92.2% in the last 10 years. 70% of victims are children, adolescents and young women 12 to 22 years of age. Of 26 cases seen in the first three months of 2010, 21 were for the crime of trafficking, Bolivian police said. Only in the cities of La Paz, ElAlto, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz have statistics on this crime because they have the Division of trafficking and trafficking in human beings.
Trafficking and trafficking in minors to Argentina has increased in recent years, villagers near the border state that this is due to the lack of border control. Many children are brought up with lies to the neighboring country where they are exploited andoften end up being deported.
The offense
The crime exists when three conditions are met by those who, necessarily, through a person who is prey to traffickers.
1. The act (which is): the act of recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons.
2. The means (how it is done): threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or of aposition of vulnerability or giving payments or benefits in exchange for control of life victim.
3. Objective (why do): for purposes of exploitation, including prostitution, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, removal of organs and similar practices.
Women and children, the most vulnerable Origin and objectives Bolivia is primarily a source country for men, women and children aretrafficked to be exploited by the extreme poverty and have little value to children.
The destinations
A lot of Bolivians live in conditions of forced labor in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Spain and the United States in areas such as construction, agriculture and the sex trade.
Women
Women are one of the most vulnerable to trafficking in Bolivia. Many of them are captured at a young age in ruralareas of Bolivia or the slums and moved to the cities, where they are coerced into forced prostitution.
Forced labor
A significant number of Bolivian children and adolescents suffer conditions of forced labor in mining, agriculture and as domestic servants. Reports indicate that parents sell or rent their children to be exploited in forced labor in mining and agriculture in the border areas....