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Viewing cable 09KABUL362, AFGHANISTAN'S 2009 TIP QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE
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SUBJECT: AFGHANISTAN'S 2009 TIP QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE
REF: 08STATE132759
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¶23. (SBU) THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION:
¶A.
The sources of available information on trafficking include
the Ministries of Interior, Justice, and Women's Affairs, the
Attorney General's Office, the Supreme Court, the Afghanistan
Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) the Institute on
Migration (IOM), UNICEF, UNIFEM, and numerous
non-governmental organizations. IOM together with MOI is
developing a G/TIP-funded common database for tracking and
sharing TIP-investigation, arrest, prosecution information.
General lack of governmental capacity and the pre-August 2008
absence of a specific TIP law made obtaining precise
quantitative statistics difficult. Many government agencies
and non-government organizations are involved in anti-TIP
efforts, however, and it is often possible to obtain and
compare data from several sources.
¶B.
The country is a country of origin, transit, and destination
for internationally trafficked men, women, and children.
Trafficking also occurs within the country's borders,
including areas under insurgent control. Afghan men are
trafficked to Iran and Pakistan for forced labor and debt
bondage. Most Afghans working in Iran went voluntarily and
continue to work there voluntarily. Some Iranian employers,
however, treated Afghans as indentured servants or otherwise
did not pay wages. Afghan women and girls are trafficked
internally and to Pakistan and Iran for forced or sham
marriages and sexual exploitation. Afghan children are
trafficked internally for forced labor, forced begging, debt
bondage, sexual exploitation, forced marriage to settle debts
or disputes, and service as child soldiers. Afghan children
are also trafficked to Iran and Pakistan for forced labor and
forced marriages. Afghan boys are trafficked to Pakistan for
paramilitary training and to Iran and Pakistan as part of the
drug smuggling industry. Afghanistan is also a destination
for women and girls from Iran and Tajikistan trafficked for
commercial sexual exploitation. Tajik women are also
believed to be trafficked through Afghanistan to Pakistan and
Iran for commercial sexual exploitation. There have been no
dramatic changes in these patterns since the last TIP report.
¶C.
Little information existed on the conditions into which
victims are trafficked either internally or abroad.
¶D.
Boys from poor families especially from border provinces were
more at risk for being trafficked for forced labor, sexual
exploitation, paramilitary service, and drug smuggling.
¶E.
Little information existed on the average profile of
traffickers. Traffickers used a variety of methods to
approach victims, including the following: traffickers lured
foreigners to Afghanistan under the pretense of high-paying
employment opportunities in the reconstruction effort;
instead the brokers forced the people into labor or sex work
without pay. Some Afghan men forced their wives into
prostitution. Parents in poor, rural parts of Afghanistan
often willingly send their children with traffickers in the
hopes that the children can gain employment and send money
home. Many of these children end up in forced labor
situations, particularly in Pakistan carpet factories. Some
parents send their sons with traffickers who promised to
enroll them in good schools in Pakistan when in fact the
traffickers delivered these children to paramilitary training
camps. Brokers increasingly use internet sites to attract
women and girls, promise marriage to a wealthy husband,
provide the women with forged travel documents and then sell
the victims to a trafficker.
¶24. (SBU) SETTING THE SCENE FOR THE GOVERNMENT'S ANTI-TIP
EFFORTS:
¶A.
The government acknowledges that trafficking is a problem in
the country.
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¶B.
Afghanistan's anti-TIP law required the formation of a high
commission for countering human trafficking, headed by the
MOJ and composed of representatives from the Attorney
General's Office, MOI, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),
Ministry of Education, Ministry of Religious Affairs,
Ministry of Women's Affairs (MOWA), Ministry of Public
Health, AIHRC, and several other organizations. MOI has the
primary responsibility for reporting and investigating cases
and the most direct contact with victims. MOI has a
counter-trafficking unit staffed with six IOM-trained
officers dedicated to investigation of TIP cases. MOWA
assists trafficking victims by providing legal and social
counseling and referring victims to shelters. The Ministry
of Labor and Social Affairs plays an informal lead role in
working to combat trafficking for the purpose of forced
labor, especially child trafficking for forced labor
purposes. The Attorney General's Office is responsible for
keeping statistics on prosecutions and convictions. MFA is
responsible for addressing efforts against international
trafficking.
¶C.
The government recognizes the need to address trafficking and
has shown political will, but Afghanistan is the fourth
poorest country in the world and has faced the challenge of
thirty years of war and an ongoing insurgency as it tries to
address a full range of governance demands. Ministries and
civil institutions are undeveloped and severely understaffed
and resourced.
Funding to train police, judges, and prosecutors on
identifying and investigating trafficking cases remains
inadequate to address the need. Afghanistan's anti-TIP law
provides for protection of victims by prohibiting prosecution
of trafficking victims and by allowing foreign TIP victims to
remain legally in Afghanistan for at least six months.
Although Afghanistan is unable to financially support TIP
victims, it concurs with assistance provided to trafficking
victims by international and national NGOs.
¶D.
The government does not have the capacity to systematically
monitor its anti-trafficking efforts; however, it is
beginning to build infrastructure with the assistance of
foreign embassies and NGOs. MOI's coordination with IOM to
develop a database of TIP investigations and prosecutions
will greatly assist this effort. Also, the MOJ-headed high
commission for countering human trafficking is improving
government-wide coordination on anti-TIP efforts.
¶25. (SBU) INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF TRAFFICKERS:
¶A.
Afghanistan has a law specifically prohibiting trafficking in
persons including for sexual exploitation and labor. The
law, entitled Countering Abduction and Human Trafficking, was
enacted on July 15, 2008. The complete text of the law will
be sent separately. The law covers both internal and
transnational forms of trafficking. The law defines human
trafficking as the "transfer, transit, employing, keeping and
or giving a person in one's control for exploitation or by
taking advantage of weak financial status or helplessness by
spending or taking money or interest or other means of
deception for winning the consent of the victim or of the
person who is the guardian." The law defines exploitation as
trafficking for "employment, buying, selling, sexual,
criminal, making pornographic pictures and movies, armed
fighting, forced labor, cutting or removal of body organs,
medical or health experiments or forcing victims to perform
other illegal acts." Prior to the enactment of this law, the
government prosecuted traffickers under several statutes
criminalizing various forms of kidnapping and sexual abuse.
¶B.
The prescribed penalty for trafficking people for sexual
exploitation is life imprisonment.
¶C.
The prescribed penalty for trafficking for labor exploitation
is "maximum term" imprisonment, which in practice is between
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8-15 years. Afghanistan's counter-trafficking law provides
for punishment for organizers of crimes and dictates
organizers shall receive the same punishment as the
trafficker.
¶D.
Article 429 of the Penal Code addresses rape case and sexual
assault cases. This article provides for a maximum of seven
years imprisonment in a rape case, unless aggravating
circumstances, including prior rape convictions, exist.
¶E.
The government prosecuted cases against human trafficking
offenders during the reporting period as kidnapping or rape
cases. The government is making a transition to acting based
on the new trafficking law. The Attorney General's Office
reported it prosecuted under kidnapping and rape statutes 62
cases meeting the definition of human trafficking, during the
reporting period. The sentences ranged from 5-18 years
imprisonment. Additional statistics regarding the breakdown
by type of TIP and victims were not available.
¶F.
Working through IOM, the USG provided anti-trafficking
training for prosecutors, judges, and police, including MOI
officials in the Afghan National Police criminal
investigation division (CID). During the reporting period,
approximately 1000 individuals received training.
¶G.
There were no instances of international investigations
during the year. Afghanistan reported difficulty engaging
Pakistani authorities effectively on investigating
cross-border trafficking. Law enforcement and other
government officials from the United Arab Emirates, Iran,
Pakistan, and Afghanistan participated actively in an
IOM-organized conference on combating international
trafficking held in Kabul in October 2008.
¶H.
There were no extraditions of traffickers because Afghanistan
does not have an extradition law. The lower house of the
national assembly approved a draft extradition law, but the
draft awaits action by the upper house.
¶I.
There are no reports of government involvement in
trafficking. MOI stated no police officials have been
arrested for involvement in trafficking. There are
unconfirmed allegations (but no documentation) of corrupt
Afghan National Police and Afghan Border Police officers
being complicit in trafficking.
¶J.
Not Applicable
¶K.
The Penal Code does not specifically mention prostitution or
punishment for prostitution. Prosecutors and courts normally
considered prostitution as a form of adultery.
¶L.
Afghanistan does not contribute troops to international
peacekeeping operations.
¶M.
Sex tourism has not been identified as a problem in
Afghanistan.
¶26. (SBU) PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS:
¶A.
Afghanistan's anti-TIP law prohibits the government from
prosecuting victims of trafficking and mandates the
government allow foreign national victims to remain in
Afghanistan for at least six months. In the absence of
appropriate family members, the government must refer victims
KABUL 00000362 004.2 OF 006
to an appropriate social services organization and
appropriate medical facilities. The law also requires, in
the case of an Afghan national trafficked abroad, that the
Afghan consulate or Embassy "comprehensively assist the
victim including assistance with pursuing charges against the
trafficker and claiming financial compensation for losses."
The government regularly referred victims to NGO-run victim
care facilities. The government did not forcibly deport any
foreign victims of trafficking during the reporting period
and regularly referred these victims to IOM and NGOs
providing care services.
¶B.
Care facilities are run by NGOs with the government assisting
in referring and transporting victims to these locations.
NGOs running these care facilities reported good and regular
coordination with the Ministries of Women's Affairs,
Interior, and Foreign Affairs. Foreign victims have the same
access to care as domestic trafficking victims do. Child
victims are placed with NGO-run care facilities, government
social service agencies, or in orphanages. The shelters are
not specifically for trafficking victims. The country does
not have specialized facilities for male victims.
¶C.
MOWA provides free legal services to victims of trafficking.
Both MOWA and MOI refer trafficking victims to health care
facilities providing free basic treatments. As is the case
for a number of public services, the government connects
international donors with NGOs offering services to victims
of trafficking. The government lacks its own resources to
provide services to victims of trafficking.
¶D.
Afghanistan allows foreign victims of trafficking to remain
legally in Afghanistan for at least six months. The
government did not forcibly deport any foreign victims of
trafficking during the reporting period and regularly
referred these victims to IOM and NGOs providing care
services.
¶E.
The government does not provide this assistance.
¶F.
The government has a written policy to refer victims of
domestic violence including victims of trafficking to NGO-run
shelters. NGOs reported the government followed this policy
in the overwhelming majority of instances.
¶G.
The precise number of trafficking victims identified during
the reporting period was unavailable. One Kabul shelter
received 32 victims during the last nine months of 2008-- the
police referred 23, MOWA referred four, and other NGOs
referred five. IOM reported that MOI referred the
overwhelming majority of the 40 victims the organization
assisted during the reporting period to date. The total
number of victims assisted by non-government funded programs
during the reporting period was not available.
¶H.
There was no formal identification system for high-risk
persons. IOM provided training to MOI officers on how to
recognize victims of trafficking in specific contexts, for
example at airports, border crossings, and in cases of
victims of sexual exploitation.
¶I.
Afghanistan's anti-TIP law prohibits the prosecution of
victims of trafficking. The rights of victims were generally
respected in practice, with some reports of problems.
Treatment varies, depending on which security service is
involved, the location, and the responsible official. In
some cases, trafficking victims were jailed pending
resolution of the case. Children who were trafficked were
sometimes placed in orphanages until they could be reunited
with their parents. Female victims are sometimes treated as
criminals, both in cases where they fled their homes to
escape forced marriages or domestic abuse and in cases of
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prostitution. However, NGOs providing services to victims of
trafficking noted a sharp decrease in these problems due to
the formalized referral mechanism between MOI, and the
various shelters.
¶J.
The government encouraged victims to assist in the
investigation and prosecution of traffickers. Statistics
were not available regarding how many victims assisted in the
investigation and prosecution of traffickers. Afghanistan's
anti-TIP law provides for a civil remedy for damages suffered
related to TIP. The Afghan legal system does not have
capacity to handle most civil proceedings adequately.
¶K.
Any such training is provided by international NGOs, not the
government. There were no statistics on the number of
trafficking victims assisted by embassies or consulates
overseas, as Afghanistan's diplomatic representation is
extremely limited and understaffed.
¶L.
Any such assistance was provided by international NGOs.
¶M.
IOM, UNICEF, UNIFEM, AIHRC, Women for Afghan Women, the
Afghan Women's Skills Development Center, Voice of Afghan
Women, Hagar International, and several additional NGOs
provide assistance to trafficking victims. Services provided
include shelter; legal, family, and psychological counseling;
and vocational training. These organizations reported close
coordination with MOI and MOWA.
¶27. (SBU) PREVENTION:
¶A.
Any such campaigns were carried out by IOs and NGOs with the
support of the government. IOM conducted a campaign in 20
provinces that included posters in local languages, press
conferences, and television ads. MOJ officials participated
in a televised roundtable discussing and supporting the July
2008 anti-TIP law.
¶B.
The government lacked the capacity to monitor evidence of
trafficking. Afghanistan's long porous borders made
screening and border control difficult or impossible.
¶C.
Afghanistan's anti-TIP law established a high commission on
countering human trafficking, requiring relevant government
agencies to coordinate anti-TIP efforts. There is also a
memorandum of understanding between the Ministries of
Interior and Women's Affairs and NGOs and IOs providing
services to TIP victims
¶D.
The government developed a national plan of action to address
trafficking in 2004 that set the following goals for national
anti-trafficking efforts: creation of an anti-trafficking
law; training of law enforcement officials, judges and
prosecutors to identify, investigate, and prosecute
trafficking cases; development of a system to track and
analyze trafficking trends; increasing border security;
public awareness activities to educate the public on
trafficking issues; provision of shelters and services to
victims; training to Afghan diplomats abroad to identify and
assist trafficking victims; and development of a witness
protection program for those who help police in combating
trafficking. To date the Afghan government's largest
accomplishment is adopting a comprehensive anti-TIP law which
contains strong provisions for the protection of victims.
There has also been NGO supported training for law
enforcement, diplomatic, and NGO employees and scattered
public awareness campaigns. There is an office within the
Criminal Investigative Division of MOI that tracked,
analyzed, and advised on kidnapping and child protection
issues.
E:
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None
¶F.
There is no evidence Afghan nationals participate in
international child sex tourism.
Embassy point of contact for trafficking in persons issues is
political officer Nell Robinson, email RobinsonNE@state.gov,
phone number 0093-0700-108-166. This report was prepared by
political officer Nell Robinson, an FS-04 officer.
Preparation of this report took approximately 100 hours.
WOOD