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Country Narratives N-S.Pdf and government officials regularly relied on NGOs to to develop an anti-trafficking strategy for the 2010 World provide shelter, counseling, food, and rehabilitation. The Cup, which may increase the incidence of trafficked government continued to lack formalized procedures Mozambicans transported to South Africa for commercial for identifying potential victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation, but implementation was poor. The referring them to organizations providing protective government did not take any significant measures to NAMIBIA services. The Office of Assistance to Women and reduce the demand for forced labor or commercial sex acts Vulnerable Children continued its partnership with a during the year. network of anti-trafficking NGOs to respond quickly to tips on potential trafficking cases and provide care and protection to victims. UNICEF helped police establish NAMIBIA (Tier 2) the first-ever police station specifically designed to assist Namibia is a country of origin, transit, and destination women and children, including trafficking victims, in for foreign and Namibian women and children, and Maputo. A dedicated toll-free number, “116,” became possibly for men subjected to trafficking in persons, fully operational in November 2009, allowing persons specifically conditions of forced labor and forced to report crimes against children, including trafficking. prostitution. Traffickers exploit Namibian children, Line “116” received 5,239 calls from November through as well as children from Angola and Zambia, through December 2009, though it is not known how many forced labor in agriculture, cattle herding, involuntary of these were related to human trafficking. An NGO domestic servitude, charcoal production, and commercial managed the country’s only permanent shelter for child sexual exploitation. In some cases, Namibian parents trafficking victims, which operated on land donated unwittingly sell their children to traffickers. Reports by the Moamba District government. The government indicate that vulnerable Namibian children are recruited encouraged victims to assist in the investigation and for forced prostitution in Angola and South Africa, prosecution of traffickers and did not penalize victims typically by truck drivers. There is also some evidence for unlawful acts committed as a direct result of being that traffickers move Namibian women to South Africa trafficked. The government did not provide legal and South African women to Namibia to be exploited alternatives to the removal of foreign victims to countries in forced prostitution. Namibian women and children, where they would face hardship or retribution. including orphans, from rural areas are the most vulnerable to trafficking. Victims are lured by traffickers to urban centers and commercial farms with promises of legitimate work for good wages they may never receive. Some adults subject children to whom they are distantly related to forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation. Small business owners and farmers may also participate in trafficking crimes against women or children. Victims are forced to work long hours to carry out hazardous tasks, and may be beaten or raped by traffickers or third parties. Prevention The Government of Namibia does not fully comply The government’s prevention efforts remained weak with the minimum standards for the elimination of during the reporting period. The government did not trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do launch a nationwide campaign to foster awareness of so. During the year, the government created a national trafficking among government officials and private database on gender-based violence which will include citizens. As a result, most Mozambicans, including statistics of trafficking and child labor victims, cooperated many law enforcement officials, reportedly lacked a clear in a baseline study to assess the scope and scale of understanding of what constitutes trafficking. Officials its trafficking in persons problem, investigated child met regularly with the Anti-Trafficking Forum, which labor cases, rescued child victims of labor trafficking, provided a mechanism through which the government and began renovating buildings to use as shelters for and its NGO partners could discuss trafficking issues and trafficking victims. No suspected trafficking offenders, coordinate their anti-trafficking activities. Most anti- however, were prosecuted, and traffickers involved in trafficking educational workshops were run by NGOs cases of forced child labor received insufficient civil with some government participation. Media coverage of punishments. trafficking cases or issues significantly diminished over the past year, although a sting operation which led to the Recommendations for Namibia: Use the new anti- arrest of eight Mozambican and Chinese sex traffickers trafficking legislation, the Prevention of Organized in March 2010 was featured prominently in the news. Crime Act, to prosecute sex and labor trafficking Law enforcement officials and partner NGOs monitored offenses and adequately punish trafficking offenders; major border crossings and immigration patterns for conduct additional national anti-trafficking public indications of potential trafficking victims, but these awareness campaigns, particularly in the border areas; officials remained prone to complicity with traffickers. provide further training to law enforcement and social The Ministry of Justice worked with a network of NGOs service personnel on the identification and provision of 244 ANTIGUA & BARBUDA TIER RANKING BY YEAR ICELAND TIER RANKING BY YEAR THE BAHAMAS TIER RANKING BY YEAR KOSOVO TIER RANKING BY YEAR assistance to trafficking victims; increase communication boys brought into the country by a Zambian trafficker, NAMIBIA BARBADOS TIER RANKING BY YEARand coordination among law enforcement, ministries, a girl fromMALDIVES TIER RANKING BY YEAR Walvis Bay forced into prostitution by her and federal agencies involved in trafficking issues; expand mother, and Namibian girls from Kavango and possibly cooperation between national and local police; continue the Caprivi region trafficked to wine farms in the south to dedicate adequate time and resources in order to for forced labor as babysitters and domestic workers. In complete the shelter and safe house renovations; and 2009, the MGECW created a national database on gender- continue efforts to improve and expand record-keeping on based violence that will include statistics on trafficking specific human trafficking offenses. and child labor victims. Prosecution BOTSWANA TIER RANKING BY YEARThe Government of Namibia modestly increased its NAMIBIA TIER RANKING BY YEAR anti-trafficking law enforcement efforts during the year. National police and the Ministry of Justice handled no trafficking cases during the reporting period. In May 2009, the government enacted the Prevention of Organized Crime Act (POCA) of 2004, which explicitly criminalizes all forms of trafficking. Under the POCA, persons who participate in trafficking offenses or aid and abet trafficking offenders may be fined up to $133,000 BRUNEI TIER RANKING BY YEAR The governmentPALAU TIER RANKING BY YEAR has no specific formal procedures in and imprisoned for up to 50 years. The Act does not place for referring trafficking victims for care, although differentiate between trafficking for commercial sexual the police are responsible for finding temporary shelter exploitation and trafficking for non-sexual purposes. In for all victims as well as medical assistance. The MGECW addition, Section 4 of the Labor Act of 2007 prohibits provided social workers to work in partnership with the forced labor and prescribes penalties of up to four police, who counsel or otherwise assist victims of violent years’ imprisonment or a fine of up to $2,700, or both. crimes, including human trafficking. Law enforcement Section 3 of the Labor Act prohibits various forms of and other officials referred victims to NGOs and other exploitative child labor, prescribing penalties equal to entities that provided short-term shelter facilities. those for other forced labor offenses. Penalties for these Officials were aware that the shelters are often full and crimes are sufficiently stringent and commensurate with cannot accommodate all victims who need assistance. those prescribed for other serious crimes, such as rape. Neither long-term shelter facilities nor services designed The draft Child Care and Protection Bill is expected to to meet the specific needs of victims of trafficking address child trafficking offenses, among other crimes. existed in Namibia. The Woman and Child Protection Government officials are working with the Southern Unit (WACPU) of the Namibian Police Force designated African Development Community to develop model examination rooms in major hospitals for treatment of comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation which could be victims of violent crimes that are staffed by physicians effectively adopted in countries throughout the region. trained to deal with trauma victims, including victims of The government neither opened a criminal investigation trafficking. WACPU also had referral agreements with two into any suspected trafficking offenses nor prosecuted NGOs to provide victims of trauma with counseling and any trafficking cases during the reporting period. legal services that were available to trafficking victims. Officials investigated several cases of child labor; in all The government subsidized some shelter
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