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Human Trafficking In Cuba

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Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking in Cuba. Authorities report that young people from 13 to 20 years old are most vulnerable to human trafficking in Cuba. Cuba is principally a source of women and children trafficked within the country for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Some Cuban families push their children into prostitution, exchanging sex for money, food, or gifts. Cuban people voluntary migrate illegally to the United States, and there have been some reports that some are forced to labor and prostitution secretly. The government of Cuba does not fully act in accordance with a wish or command with the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, and is not making any efforts to do so. …show more content…

Government authorities are blinded to this exploitation because such thing helps to win hard currency for state-run business. Opponents of the Cuban Government are often arrested under the crime of "certain danger", are forced to carry out state-run construction and agricultural labor that benefits the state. Workers are forced to work on foreign investment or government priority project without a good compensation, which is retained by the state and children are forced to perform agricultural work. The Government of Cuba does not fully accomplish with the minimum standard for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so. The Cuban Government does not acknowledge that its tourism institutions are involved in the sexual trafficking of children; it does not acknowledge that it participates in forced labor trafficking. The Cuban Government does not acknowledge a human trafficking problem, but does acknowledge the existence of prostitution. The Government carries no public awareness to warn of

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