Report: Israel Not Preventing Human Trafficking

Israel is not in full compliance with minimum international standards to prevent human trafficking, the United States Department of State says in a new report. The State Department classified Israel as a "tier two" country, the second ranking out of a possible four categories.

 

State Department says Israel not preventing human trafficking

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Israel is not in full compliance with the minimum international standards to prevent human trafficking, but is making efforts to bring itself up to par, the U.S. State Department said.

Israel's rank in the U.S. State Department's annual report on human trafficking released Monday remained unchanged. The State Department classified Israel as a "tier two" country, the second ranking out of a possible four categories. This is the fifth year in a row Israel has received a tier two ranking, after increasing its rank in 2007.

According to the report, men and women, mostly migrants, are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking in Israel. Workers from Thailand, China, Nepal, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka and Romania legally and voluntarily come over for temporary work in construction, agriculture and as home health care providers. Some, the report said, "subsequently face conditions of forced labor, including through such practices as the unlawful withholding of passports, restrictions on movement, inability to change or otherwise choose one’s employer, nonpayment of wages, threats, sexual assault and physical intimidation."
 
The report also said many agencies that recruit laborers to come to Israel require them to pay between $4,000 and $20,000, putting them at risk for trafficking practices until the debt is paid off.
 
Citing Israel's Interior Ministry, the report said 14,000 migrants crossed into the country through the Sinai in 2010, up from 5,000 the previous year. The report said Bedouin groups in the area kept many of the migrants captive in the Sinai and "an unknown number of them were forced into sexual servitude or labor to build homes and serve as domestic workers."
 
Additionally, the report found that women from the former Soviet Union and China are forced into prostitution, but noted that the number has gone down since Israel passed an anti-trafficking bill in 2006.
 
The report recommended Israel "significantly increase prosecutions, convictions and punishment of labor trafficking offenders," while noting it kept up its strong law enforcement progress against sex trafficking. The government also runs two shelters for male and female trafficking victims, although international organizations said both lacked a sufficient number of beds for the total number of victims in the country.
 
The report analyzed 184 countries and identified 23 nations as failing to comply with international standards, up from 13 in 2010.

Comments

[deremes is sheker]

who is america to talk? america has an open door with mexico.

[yudel]

yes you are quite correct.We actually do very little about any of this. Albeit it is very complicated and a very dangerous game not much is done here and not enough in Israel or anywhere

..every 6 minutes a pre-teen is sold and there are about 27 million kids that age around the world in slavery. Price varies according to what buyer wishes to pay. You end up sold to someone in hidden worlds of the middle east once you are used up and grown up you are taking a sand nap out in the way beyond.

[Jeff]

every 6 minutes a pre-teen is sold and there are about 27 million kids that age around the world in slavery. Price varies according to what buyer wishes to pay. You end up sold to someone in hidden worlds of the middle east once you are used up and grown up you are taking a sand nap out in the way beyond.

I don't understand how anyone can believe in a benevolent creator in the face of something like this. It's simply beyond me.

[Gevezener Chusid]

The Russian Jewish mafia, no doubt.

[jewishwhistleblower]

Unfortunately this is not new. From 1860 to 1930 (70 years) thousands of frum young girls from eastern Europe were forced into prostitution by the Zvi Migdal society in thousands of brothels worldwide.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090502115757/http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/ZwiMigdal.html
"This hugely profitable (annual revenues of $50 million in the 1890s) commerce in flesh was operated by the Zwi Migdal, a criminal association It was centred in Buenos Aires, with branch offices in several locations in Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York City, NY; Warsaw, Poland; South Africa; India; and China."

This criminal operation that operated openly out of the Orthodox community was brought down in the end not by our community leaders, not by our daynim but by young brave Jewish women who went to the police and feminists who were involved with organizations such as the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women in England. It was not brought down by our Rabbonim.

You may not believe in a benevolent creator in the face of something like this. I do. Hashem has given us the power to effect real change in this world and stop this evil but we and our leadership are the ones who fail on a daily basis to do so. We need to effect real change in our leadership and then change will come.

Zvi Migdal fell after 70 years and so will modern versions. Hopefully, it will not take another 70 years.

[anuran]

Light Unto the Nations, my ass.

[ah-pee-chorus]

@: jewishwhistleblower | June 28, 2011 at 11:52 AM

i had never heard of this before. fascinating. heres an article about them for those interested.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3403899,00.html

[george]

This seems to be the report:

http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2010/

I am at page 19 and somehow it feels like the United States government was itself in violation of page 19 for what it did in that immigration raid at Agriprocessors.

[george]

> The report analyzed 184 countries and identified 23 nations as failing to comply with international standards, up from 13 in 2010.

Seems like an obfuscation. Israel was ranked "2". On page 48/49 I count at last 40 in the first column alone who are ranked 2 or worse, multiply by 3 columns (that look about the same, I did not count it all) comes to over 100 countries ranked with 2 or worse.

I suppose their report might be later than the one on the web site?

[george]

I suppose this is the more recent report:

http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2011/index.htm

[george]

> The report analyzed 184 countries and identified 23 nations as failing to comply with international standards, up from 13 in 2010.

So, using the latter report (2011) that number "23" still comes from nowhere. A quick (and approximate) search of "not fully comply" shows up more like 100.

[eyesay]

Just because a the report gives a country a Tier 1 rating does not mean there is no human trafficking in that country. The United States has a Tier 1 rating and there is human trafficking in the United States.

From the report's website, http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2010/142755.htm, I count 30 Tier 1 countries.

[סקס]

It will be true that One cannot ignore the correlation between sex and Israel that exists in the hearts and loins of the tens of thousands of parentally unsupervised diaspora youth that visit Israel every year