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"content": "movements. It must also include very elaborate organizing and it must be for purposes of exploitation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, trafficking in persons has several facets. It has the human rights facet. If you look at the human rights facet, it deals with issues of denial of the right to life because at times the victims of trafficking end up being killed. It has to do with the denial of rights to movement, denial of the right to liberty and sometimes it also affects our right to physical integrity because a lot of the victims of trafficking are subjected to torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment. It also has immigration components because a lot of times, especially for trans-boundary trafficking, a lot of people have to use fake documents and in Kenya we are a target because of our porous borders. It has a gender dimension, because a lot of the persons who are trafficked tend to be women. Then, it has a child rights component because a lot of the persons who are trafficked are also children. It also has justice issues because in a lot of countries, victims of trafficking tend to be treated as criminals when, in fact, they are actually victims and should be treated as such. If you look at the prevalence rate of trafficking in persons, as at the year 2006 the US State Department estimated that between 600,000 to 700,000 persons were trafficked annually. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) estimated that they were between 700,000 to 2,000,000 people who were trafficked internationally. But if you look at the trans-national trafficking then it moves to 4,000,000. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimated it at around 12.3 million people annually. In Kenya the figures are very big especially if you look at the issue of internal trafficking. If you look at the one that is very problematic to us as a country, especially the issues of sexual exploitation of children, between 10,000 to 30,000 children are sexually exploited in child sex tourism in the coastal region of Kenya. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as at the year 1997 Kenya was defined as a transit country by the UN Special Rapportour on violence against women. Unfortunately, over the years Kenya has moved from being merely a transit country to a source country and destination country, especially in relation to trafficking of women and children. Because of that, Kenya has consistently been put under Tire II which means that it is always on the international watch list. This is because there is evidence of trafficking but as a country we have not done enough to stem the rising tide of trafficking against persons especially women and children. In Kenya we have seen many cases. In the year 2005 or 2006 we remember the case of Anne Oâbrien who originally came from Kiambu and married an Irish man. She was actually trafficking many Kenyan girls to the United Kingdom (UK). Anne was jailed but it actually brought to the fore cases of trafficking. We also saw the case of Bishop Deya who was performing miracles, save that the miracles which were being performed had to do with our children being trafficked to places outside Kenya. Kenya is not the only African country that has that challenge. Many West African countries have a big problem in relation to trafficking in persons. Countries like Nigeria and several other countries have had a big problem especially of their young women who are trafficked to Italy especially for purposes of sexual exploitation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Kenya predominantly, our women end up in the Middle East especially for exploitation of their labour. We also have internal"
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