Trafficking in bangladesh facts.
- Bangladesh is ranked as the #1 country with the highest human trafficking rates to date
- people who traffic in Bangladesh target socially or economically vulnerable people
- there are 20 main points of trafficking in 16 south/southwestern districts in Bangladesh by the border of Bangladesh & India
- the main trafficking route used in Bangladesh is Dhaka Mumbai Karachi Dubai
- the main reasons for trafficking children age 4 to 15 in Bangladesh are for the sex industry, to obtain internal organs, & to become "camel riding jockeys" in Arab gulf countries where they are heavily exposed to extreme physical injury & possible fatality
- 200 to 400 women & children are smuggled & trafficking monthly from Bangladesh Pakistan & other Arab gulf countries
- an average of 10,000 to 15,000 women & children are trafficked from Bangladesh to India yearly
- most victims that are not smuggled for trafficking in Bangladesh are lured in with promises of better work, marriage, or are simply sold by a relative
- the collapse of the garment industry in September of 2001 marked a major increase in human trafficking in Bangladesh
- only 53 cases of human trafficking in Bangladesh have been brought to court; of those 53 cases, only 21 have been convicted with the highest punishment of 10 years in prison for "rigorous hard labor and imprisonment" with the remainder of them dismissed for inadequate evidence
SOURCES:
Chowdhury, Jamila Ahmed. "Human Trafficking - A New Form of Slave Trade in Bangladesh | ヒューライツ大阪." Human Trafficking - A New Form of Slave Trade in Bangladesh | ヒューライツ大阪. Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center, Sept. 2004. Web. 18 May 2015. <http://www.hurights.or.jp/archives/focus/section2/2004/09/human-trafficking---a-new-form-of-slave-trade-in-bangladesh.html>.