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• According to smugglers previously contacted by Al-Masry Al-Youm, human trafficking of African migrants to Israel through Sinai is a not uncommon practice among Bedouin tribesmen. They typically reach their prospective patrons through agents in Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, who convince would-be migrants that, upon arrival in Sinai, they will be hired for lucrative salaries.

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• of the most economically and strategically important in the world. There has been a long chain of illegal trade operations in the form of weapons trafficking, human trafficking, criminal dumping of nuclear and chemical waste from around the world in Dhalak, Sahel, and the environs of Masawa and piracy. Particularly, piracy off the coast of Africa has become a critical issue in the region, because

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• ving each month. In recent decades many have found their way into Egypt where they attempt to reach either Israel or Europe, with many either falling victim to human trafficking among the Sinai Bedouin or finding themselves struggling to survive in an unwelcoming host country.

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• enforced on the social welfare subsistence money provided by foreign governments to exiled Eritrean nationals. Furthermore, the Eritrean regime is involved in human trafficking of Eritrean nationals to the Sinai desert where they become victims of torture, rape, organ harvesting, killing or they pay a ransom amounting between $30,000- 50,000. This has been confirmed by the Eritrea-Somalia monitor

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• Additionally, some Sudanese officials collaborate with Eritrean regime military officials in the lucrative business of human trafficking and contraband trade. This was documented by the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea in a report it filed with the United Nations on July 18, 2011.

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• on leaders are genuinely committed to their people they should united and work together to end the suffering of the younger Eritrean who have become victime of human trafficking and pershing in the medetrian sea. Those opposition leaders( EDA, EPDP etc..) have until now proved to be no better than Isaias Afwerki. They differ only in not having the power to act

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• es it, believing that in the end it would help it stem the mass exodus. And, now, as has lately transpired, it has even been involved in the lucrative trade of human trafficking. So when Highdefites respond to the call of “strategic alliance” from Asmara, it is with the “noble cause of saving the hadnet of Eritrea” in their minds.

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• n, thousands of Eritreans flee the country illegally, mostly to Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya, where their illegal status makes them vulnerable to situations of human trafficking.” [3d] (Eritrea) Return to contents Go to sources GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO TACKLE TRAFFICKING 23.02 The United States State Department Trafficking in Persons Report 2011 stated: “The Government of the State of Eritre

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• ficant efforts to do so. The Eritrean government does not operate with transparency and published neither data nor statistics regarding its efforts to combat human trafficking; it did not respond to requests to provide information for this report. “…the Government of Eritrea made no known progress in prosecuting and punishing trafficking crimes over the reporting period. A

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• "Human trafficking in the Sinai is just like before [under ousted president Hosni Mubarak], if not worse," he told IBTimes UK. "With the confusion derived from the revolution in Egypt, freedom has increased for criminal gangs. The actual government is not willing to intervene. They've made a few arrests, but that's a drop in an ocean of the actual problem."

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• inhumane treatment of these refugees amounts to murder and is an affront to humanity. We urge the Egyptian authorities to act decisively to combat the rampant human trafficking within their borders, and to ensure that perpetrators of atrocities are brought to justice.”

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• The economy is in shambles, mainly depending on smuggling and illegal arms trade and human trafficking. Health Care facilities have decayed to such a degree, that it is better to die at home than attempt to get any medical care.

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• well-developed illicit networks. If President Mohamed Morsi truly seeks to meet international expectations as Egypt’s new democratic leader, he must include human trafficking as an essential aspect of his Sinai “cleansing” policy. Since 2001, over 55,000 asylum seekers have fled the cruel dictatorship in Eritrea and genocide in Sudan through the Sinai desert to Israel. As these people made t

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• nd women are kept in a ‘slave holding lots’ few kilometers west of Shegerab refugee camps. The story told by an Eritrean who is tirelessly fighting to stop the human trafficking by alerting new arrivals of the dangerous situation awaiting them if they are not careful and also by informing Sudanese authorities of the illegal activities going under their nose. His information sources are the escapee

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• , but surmised that it could be linked to waves of Sudanese refugees fleeing to Israel at the same time, and the subsequent opening of new smuggling routes and human trafficking in the area. According to Harel, over 90 percent of Eritreans here are men, mainly between the ages of 22 and 40, as well as many unaccompanied male minors. She said many of these were believed to have fled compulsory

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• [External image reference] European Parliament resolution on Human trafficking in Sinai, in particular the case of Solomon W.

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• A result so encouraging it led the CNN to start the Freedom Project (with the collaboration of the entire network of NGOs working against human trafficking) and to support the humanitarian work of activists with even greater conviction. Meanwhile EveryOne Group and its partners have filed fresh complaints to the Egyptian and international authorities against the traffickers, and supplied details o

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• a bad condition and starved these are all methods of oppression to exploit them for money. I get them doctors and try to help,' he explained. To discourage human trafficking, locals are being told by Mohammed Abu Bilal and his supporters not to serve the people responsible in their shops or let their daughters marry them. He says violence is only used as a last resort to prevent the trade a

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• fering and pain of all those who live in abject poverty in Eritrea, those who languish in refugee camps in Sudan and Ethiopia and those who die in the hands of human trafficking in Sinai desert, shot by the Egyptian security forces when they cross to Israel and those who die crossing the sea from Libya to Italy.

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• From Sawa to the Sinai Desert: The Eritrean Tragedy of Human Trafficking Daniel R. Mekonnen* & Meron Estefanos** I am one or two days away from death; they will shoot me dead, thus if you give birth to a son please name him after me. An Eritrean victim of human trafficking from The Sinai Desert Abstract Eritrea is a twenty-year old nation with a long history of war, political vio

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• ean refugees and asylum seekers as they enter Eastern Sudan. Based on numerous reports and individual interviews, the main actors responsible for smuggling and human trafficking from Eastern Sudan into Egypt are local tribesmen in Eastern Sudan and in the Sinai, as well as some criminal gangs. Some asylum seekers are kidnapped at the border between Eritrea and Sudan, before reaching the camps, whi

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• orrors of the Sinai and it is currently developing an international advocacy campaign to raise awareness among the international community to put an end to the human trafficking and torture in the Sinai desert. In support of this effort, assenna.com shares a variety of materials it has received from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.

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• known to express any remorse for ordinary Eritreans, wrote “defenseless nationals from the Horn of Africa, including Eritreans who were crossing border through human trafficking were inhumanely killed in massive aerial bombardment that occurred at 2 p.m. in the night hours at a place called “Jebel Awlad” along the Sudanese-Egyptian border on 12 January 2009 and on 23 February 2009 in an area lying

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• reign policy (Chatham House, 2009). Service for Life 86 programs and arrested two more Eritrean staff of the US embassy, this time on allegations of human trafficking.376 In response, the US imposed restrictions on Eritrean diplomatic staff in the US and forced the closure of Eritrea’s only consulate in Oakland, California.377 In a gradually rising tide of insults, relations with E

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• here on the Sudanese/Egyptian border Release Eritrea’s Egypt team is receiving reports of the arrest and detention of a large group of around 140 victims of human trafficking at the Sudan/Egypt border by Egyptian border guards. During the arrest, the vehicle in which the Africans (mostly of Eritrean and Ethiopian origin) were being transported by the traffickers, was fired upon by the guards an

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• Urgently hold a tripartite meeting and review the situation of human trafficking in the Sinai and east Sudan;

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• According to the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior, Sub-Saharan refugees are victims of gangs involved in human trafficking. The government led by Prime Minister Al-Ganzouri appointed on 7 December 2011 indicated that the Sinai is a strategic priority which should receive greater attention. It raises hope that the fight against organised crime will be intensified and that the Egyptian authorities

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• ncies, burns and other forms of torture30. A UN security council report this year found Eritrean official, Sudanese and Egyptian smuggling gangs collude in a human trafficking industry estimated to generate more than US$10m annually31. Once in Sudan, Eritreans find themselves moving either South towards South Sudan, Kenya and Uganda, or North, towards Egypt, Israel, Libya and Europe all in se

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• om their Bedouin captors and completed their journey to the Egyptian capital with the help of a man in northern Sinai, known as Sheikh Mohamed, who has opposed human trafficking and provides support to Africans who escape, according to groups that work with refugees in Cairo. But while more torture survivors are reaching Cairo with Sheikh Mohamed's support, human-rights activists said there is no

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• gotten worse, seems insoluble, and often impossible to disentangle from the web of EDA’s grip. The issue of our people, our nation, our refugees, and issue of human trafficking wasn’t even in the agenda of the council meeting. The general lack of national urgency to save our people is now become an indictment against EDA, crystallized by negative sentiment of the public mood. Now, do we need to p

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• The economy is in shambles, mainly depending on smuggling and illegal arms trade and human trafficking. Health Care facilities have decayed to such a degree, that it is better to die at home than attempt to get any medical care.

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• In a BBC interview last month, Information Minister Ali Abdu accused the UNHCR of being "involved in human trafficking" and said some UN workers were "intelligence agents".

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• st women and the Kunama ethnic group were a concern. The law criminalizes consensual same-sex activity. Child abuse, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), human trafficking, and forced child labor occurred. Government policies limited worker rights.

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• the kidnapping and subsequent long imprisonment of those forcefully returned from Sudan, the shoot to kill policy of the governments of Eritrea and Egypt, the human trafficking and the resultant rape and harvest of human organs in the Egyptian Sinai. In addition there are thousands with undetermined status in Israel and the tragic loss of lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.

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• n, thousands of Eritreans flee the country illegally, mostly to Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya, where their illegal status makes them vulnerable to situations of human trafficking.” [3d] (Eritrea) Return to contents Go to sources GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO TACKLE TRAFFICKING 24.02 The United Stat es State Department Trafficking in Persons Report 2010 stated: “The Government of Eritrea does not f

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• of Ethiopia and Sudan. With tremendous risk to their lives, the informants came forward to expose the evil among us and put stop to the criminal activities of human trafficking that the young is subjected to for over 6 years. Many refuge advocates in both the Sudan and in Israel gave a valuable support and were the drive in publishing the report. Among the governments in the Nile valley where the

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• s who volunteers as a nurse for the NGO Physicians for Human Rights- Israel (PHR-I). During the past two years she has led PHR-I’s efforts to call attention to human trafficking in Sinai, Egypt, including sexual slavery and the torture of hundreds of African asylum seekers. PHR-I developed a groundbreaking research project that has interviewed hundreds of victims living in Israel. This painstaking

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• Included are about 200 Eritreans and Ethiopians. Some reached Israel. Egypt re-imprisoned others. Many were caught by human trafficking gangs. They're now in captivity held for ransom.

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• journey. The ransom is sent to Eritrean embassy staff in Cairo. Money from the smuggling is also deposited into a Swiss Bank account.178 Profits from this human trafficking could be a factor in the government’s decision to continue subjecting its citizens to draconian and unlimited national service; goading people to flee provides a lucrative income stream.

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• nt police unit. Eritrean refugees living in Israel joined these meetings, following requests by the organizations, and they provided valuable information about human trafficking operatives in Israel. None of the suspected criminals have been detained by the police. On December 12, 2010, activists from the Hotline for Migrant Workers managed to orchestrate the arrest of 2 Eritreans while they co

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• He told Daily News Egypt that he believed “Bedouin traffickers,” who were the Egyptian side of a larger multi-national human trafficking network, are now keeping the captives for ransom or for purposes of organ trafficking.

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• and, if they don’t desist from their activities, deports them to Eritrea. The Eritrean and Eastern Sudanese officials are also partners in contraband trade and human trafficking of Eritreans–smuggling them all the way to Sinai and then demanding huge fees from their families in Europe and the United States.

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• 013 a panel discussion on Eritrean refugees was held at Simmons College in which the author participated and submitted the paper titled “ Eritrean Refugees and Human Trafficking”

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• *An indictment was passed by Isreali court against an Israeli citizen, Yusuf al-Kirnawi, for belonging to a human trafficking network known for holding hostages, torture and rape of Eritreans and Sudanese refugees for ransom in Sinai. Kirnawi was charged with four crimes: conspiring to commit a crime, hiding a captives, extortion by force and extortion by threats. The complaint was filed last week

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• “The government did not report any investigations, prosecutions, or convictions of government officials complicit in human trafficking, but sources indicated Eritrean military officers may have been complicit in smuggling, and possibly trafficking offenses; during the previous reporting period, unconfirmed reports claimed the government arrested 44 military officials for conspiracy to subject Erit

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• January 11, 2011. CSW is marking Global Human Trafficking Awareness Day by renewing its call for effective action to release Eritreans and other nationals who are being subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment in the Sinai desert by Bedouin people traffickers.

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• Israeli officers with the Sinai Bedouin from the regions of Al Guseima and Wadi Al Jemer . All these practices occur despite the fact that Article VI of the Human Trafficking Act No. 64 of 2010 punishes anyone who commits the crime of trafficking in human beings to life imprisonment and a fine of not less than one hundred thousand pounds and not exceeding five hundred thousand pounds. Other

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• uprooting those dredges from within and protect the refugees from falling victims to human traffickers. ICER had hundreds of names of big and small involved in human trafficking. These culprits are the cause of untold suffering including death and torture of young Eritreans, the destitution of Eritrean families at home and the disruption of life of many working families abroad.

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