Undereducated youths, children from dysfunctional homes most vulnerable to TIP scourge

Mar 30, 2018 News

The Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking In Persons has reported that there are seven groups of people in Guyana appearing to be most vulnerable to the Trafficking In Persons (TIP) scourge.
Among the seven groups identified by the Task Force are undereducated youths, and children from dysfunctional homes. Other vulnerable groups include female foreigners, young men and women from hinterland communities, domestic workers and sex workers/exotic dancers.
This was noted in the most recent report that the task force handed to the National Assembly. This report focuses greatly on the events of 2016 that were carried out to combat TIP. Focus was also placed on TIP stats covering 2016, 2015 and 2014.
The task force reported that most of the victims of TIP in Guyana were taken from Region Four.
In 2016, there were 98 alleged victims of TIP stemming from 38 reported cases. This was higher than figures quoted for years 2014 and 2015. The years 2014 and 2015 had 18 cases each.
Of the 38 cases reported in 2016, 30 were sent for legal advice and 19 TIP charges were laid.
These cases involved 55 alleged perpetrators, up from 32 in 2015 and 26 in 2014.
The report stated that for the years 2014-2016, each year has seen an increase in the number of alleged victims TIP in Guyana. It is the contention of the Task Force that much of the increase in reported cases can be attributed to the increase in awareness among the general populace.
Females dominated reports on TIP from 2014 to 2016 with 89.3 percent while alleged male victims accounted for 10.7%.
The stats shows that persons between ages 12 and18 were the most vulnerable age group in Guyana followed by the 19-25 age groups.
The general trend was a decrease in the prevalence of alleged TIP victims with the older age groups strongly suggesting that younger individuals were most vulnerable to the crime. However, the report noted that each of the age groups recorded alleged victims, suggesting that no one was immune.
The majority of the victims of trafficking in persons in Guyana were of Mixed Race with 52.3 percent of alleged victims falling in this ethnic group. The Mixed Race group, as recorded in Police statistics, was made up largely of individuals from Latin American countries, such as the Dominican Republic, Brazil or Venezuela. This ethnic group was followed by the Indigenous with 24.9%.
The report also stated that “police figures indicated that in 2015 the majority of alleged victims
of trafficking in persons in Guyana were from overseas with 52.5 percent. That figure was 38.8percent in 2016, mostly represented by individuals from the Dominican Republic and Brazil. The entire 2014-2016 period saw 40.6 percent of alleged victims originating from overseas.
Guyanese alleged victims from 2014-2016 originated primarily from Region Four (18.8% of total number of victims), followed closely by Region One (15.7 percent). In 2016, there were more alleged victims’ from Region One (19.4 percent) than Region Four (15.3percent) whereas the converse was true for the preceding two years.”
Trafficking in persons, otherwise known as ‘human trafficking’ or ‘modern day slavery’, is a
global concern and it affects males and females, young and old, and people from all walks of life. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2016 stated: “A total of 63,251 victims were detected in 106 countries and territories between 2012 and 2014”.

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