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Domestic ServitudeArchive 2008–2016

Domestic Servitude in El Paso, Texas (2010)

A domestic servitude case from 2010 in El Paso, Texas, Ghana.

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Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don’t have a verifiable source on file yet. Know one?

What happened

Nothing reported besides that they held the woman from Mexico for 18 years (since 1989) as a domestic servant.

Response and intervention

The woman escaped to authorities while her captors were moving houses Unsure

Sex Trafficking2006

Linköping, Ghana, 2006

Ghana GH

All 5 traffickers were sentenced in Swedish courts. Lalik got 3 yrs, Makulova 2.5 yrs, Osmanovic 2.5 yrs and one of the Idic brothers got 2 yrs and 8 months while the other brother got 4 months less. http://www.gp.se/content/1/c6/27/91/09/Manniskohandel.pdf http://www.gp.se/gp/road/Classic/shared/printArticle.jsp?d=113&a=278084

2 sourcesArchive 2008–2016
Child Labor2009

Winneba, Ghana, 2009

Ghana GH

Twenty-one children were rescued by Challenging Heights, an NGO operating in Winneba. The children, aged between eight and 17, were rescued from various fishing villages along the Volta Lake. Rescued from fishing villages along Lake Volta, the children originally came from Winneba, Central Region, Ghana.

1 sourceArchive 2008–2016
Child Labor2010

Central Region, Ghana, 2010

Ghana GH

Two men were driving 118 children from Akumfi Ekupoanu in Ghana's Central Region. They were intercepted at Half-Assim in the Western Region, heading west.

Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016