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SUBJECT: COTE D'IVOIRE: 2006 TIP REPORT
REF: SECSTATE 3836
¶1. (SBU) Since a September 2002 coup attempt that evolved
into a civil war, Cote d'Ivoire has been partitioned in two
with the government maintaining control of the south and the
ex-rebel New Forces controlling the north. Tensions between
the two sides have lessened since the appointment of a new
Prime Minister in December 2005 but the peace process remains
stalled. The economy has stagnated as a result of the crisis
and government revenues have declined, creating severe
budgetary pressures. The government of Cote d'Ivoire has
necessarily focused on ending the conflict, reunifying the
country, disarming and demobilizing former combatants, and
organizing elections. Despite these challenges, the
government has demonstrated political will and dedicated some
limited resources to combating TIP. In addition, available
information indicates that the overall magnitude of
international trafficking to Cote d'Ivoire has decreased
since civil war broke out in 2002, because of the partition
of the country, tighter security at borders, and decreased
economic opportunities.
¶2. (SBU) Overview of Cote d'Ivoire's activities to eliminate
trafficking in persons (Para 21, Reftel):
¶A. Cote d'Ivoire is primarily a country of destination for
international trafficking of women and children. Cote
d'Ivoire is also, to a limited degree, a transit country and
a country of origin to countries in Europe as well as Libya
and Syria. Domestic trafficking is more prevalent than
international trafficking and it occurs in the New Forces
(NF)-controlled zone, as well as the government zone. There
is no centralized record keeping in Cote d'Ivoire.
Consequently, there are no reliable numbers available as to
the extent or magnitude of the problem. Anecdotal data are
provided when available. Sources of available information on
TIP include local and international NGOs, the police and
defense forces, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of
Family and Social Services, and other embassies. Women and
girls are more at risk of being trafficked than boys. We
have no reports of men being trafficked in or to Cote
d'Ivoire. Victims are more likely to come from the north,
and to a lesser extent, from the west, than from southern or
eastern Cote d'Ivoire.
¶B. Women and children were trafficked from Nigeria and Ghana
mainly for sexual exploitation in Abidjan and larger towns.
A small number of women and children are trafficked from
North Africa, the Ukraine, China, and the Philippines to
become prostitutes. Sometimes, the women are promised jobs
in restaurants or hair salons but are then forced into
prostitution. Frequently, these girls and women come to
Abidjan and its surroundings and work for a few days or
months in order to generate enough money to pay for tickets,
identity papers, and reimburse traffickers. If they earn
enough money and if the trafficker allows it, the women go to
their final destinations, usually European countries such as
Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy. The victims often live in
hotels or brothels and can only go out in public under the
surveillance of their pimp. Traffickers often threaten the
victims and use physical violence.
While international traffickers can be loosely organized,
domestic traffickers are often related to the victim by blood
or ethnic ties. The trafficker might be a distant relative
capitalizing on the system throughout West Africa known in
Cote d'Ivoire as "confiage" that encourages communal raising
of children. The traffickers deceive parents with promises
of schooling, money, or an apprenticeship for the child.
Parents are often proud to say their child is in Abidjan
working or are too overwhelmed by the number of children they
have to feed to worry about parting with one. If they child
returns with money, they frequently overlook the emotional
and physical damage.
In September, gendarmes in the province of Bondoukou stopped
a bus traveling with seventeen unaccompanied boys aged 13-18.
The trafficker had traveled to Burkina Faso to get workers
for cashew farms in the area. The villagers in Burkina Faso
and the Ivoirian trafficker were of the same Lobi ethnic
group. The government called UNICEF and Burkina Faso's
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Consul General in Abidjan to help care for the children. UN
forces eventually helped repatriate the children.
The local NGOs African Movement of Children and Young Workers
(MAEJT) and Movement of Social Action (EASEMO) , helped
repatriate five children who had been trafficked to Cote
d'Ivoire from Burkina Faso. The trafficker told the parents
they would attend Koranic school. When the children were
finally repatriated, the parents had thought they were a few
towns away and didn't know they had left the country.
The most vulnerable group for trafficking purposes are
children from the poorest parts of the country who do not
have birth certificates, making it easier for traffickers to
conceal their identity. Without a government presence in the
north, children often do not receive official certificates.
Moreover, in small villages in both the rebel and government
zones, poorer uneducated parents often do not even request
birth certificates for their children. Children who have
never gone to school, or have dropped out of school are also
at risk. The government refused to administer school exams
in the NF zone for three years, resulting in a higher
incidence of children not going to school or dropping out.
All of these factors make the children of the north
especially vulnerable to trafficking.
While in recent years, international pressure and press
coverage has drawn attention to child labor and trafficking
in the cocoa sector, it appears that the most common victims
of trafficking are young girls brought to Abidjan to perform
domestic labor. In the cocoa sector, smaller Ivoirian
farmers generally use their own children as farm hands while
larger plantations owned by Ivoirians employ men from Burkina
Faso and other neighboring countries. Children trafficked to
perform labor in the cocoa sector are most commonly found on
large farms of owners from neighboring countries who exploit
the system of confiage to bring children in from their own
countries to work the farms. There were reports of children
who, once interviewed apart from the farmers, revealed that,
indeed, the farmers were not their real parents. This makes
it difficult to estimate the overall magnitude of trafficked
children in the cocoa sector.
A study conducted by the ILO and the UNHCR in 2004 revealed
that in western Cote d'Ivoire within the Regugee Welcome Zone
(ZAR), refugee and displaced children are increasingly
becoming victims of trafficking and other forms of
exploitation. Many children, in order to provide for
themselves or their families, are not attending schools and
are exposed to an increasing range of situations where they
are easily exploited. The traffickers in the ZAR often
recruit young girls of thier own ethnic group to become
domestic servants. Children are also recruited to work in
mines or palm oil plantations. The trafficker usually
receives at least 10% of the child's wages.
There is political will to combat trafficking in persons,
though the highest levels of the Ivoirian government are
currently preoccupied primarily with the political crisis.
Furthermore, Ivoirians are at the early stages of hearing
about and understanding what trafficking is. The
international press first drew Ivoirians' attention o the
phenomenon of trafficking in Cote d'Ivoirewith reports of
Malian boys working as slaves incocoa farms. Frequently,
Ivoirians view internatonal reports about trafficking as a
way to "discedit" Cote d'Ivoire. Elected officials have
litle incentive to address an issue that doesn't concrn
their constituents. Still, at the lower leves of
government, officials are trying to address he problem with
the meager resources they have a their disposal.
¶C. Because of the ongoing criis, the government of Cote
d'Ivoire is facing anextreme budget shortfall and lacks the
resourcesto adequately support anti-trafficking programs.
Despite official figures showing modest economic grwth in
2004 and 2005, Cote d'Ivoire probably exprienced zero or
negative growth in 2002-2005. Te country remains
partitioned in two and the govrnment struggles to provide
social services in the areas it controls. Poverty is
endemic, making amilies more vulnerable to traffickers.
However,the government has managed to devote some human
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resources to various programs. For example, the government
encourages police officers, gendarmes, and other officials to
attend seminars hosted by NGOs to learn how to identify
traffickers and treat the victims. Local officials have
participated in the implementation of programs and have also
devoted human resources from their offices to neighborhood
watch groups and local NGOs engaged in the fight against
trafficking in persons. They have also provided office space.
¶D. The government follows and supports anti-trafficking
efforts, but not systematically on any front. When
international or local NGOs hold seminars on trafficking in
persons, the government participates and shares information
with their partners in the fight. The press covers these
seminars and through media reports, the public is informed.
¶3. (SBU) PREVENTION (Para 22, Reftel)
¶A. The government does acknowledge that trafficking is a
problem. On July 27, the Ministry of Family and Social
Services, hosted the signing ceremony for a multi-lateral
cooperation agreement to combat trafficking in children.
Nine countries signed the accord: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote
d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Togo.
The agreement represents the first time that West African
states have taken the initiative to create and sign a
multilateral agreement to combat child trafficking without
the aid of an international organization. The government of
Cote d'Ivoire, through the National Committee for the Fight
against Trafficking and Child Exploitation (NCFTCE), took the
lead creating and cultivating support for the agreement.
However, the government has also sought to portray the
trafficking issue to the Ivoirian public as an assault on the
vital cocoa sector and an attempt to besmirch the reputation
of Cote d'Ivoire. Thus, while the government does
acknowledge that trafficking is a problem, it is a
politicized issue that is not yet clearly linked to the
political will to devote more public resources for
anti-trafficking efforts on the part of the government.
¶B. The Ministry of Family and Social Services has the lead
on trafficking issues. They work with the Ministries of
Justice, Defense, the Interior, and to a smaller degree,
Labor.
¶C. In June 2005, the ILO paid for a seminar to sensitize the
people of Bondoukou, a province in the north-east where many
trafficked girls come from. While the ILO financed the
seminar, the government was the sole organizer.
¶D. The Ministry of Labor and the ILO continued to implement
the "West African Project Against Abusive Child Labor in
Commercial Agriculture" (WACAP) to increase farmers'
awareness, improve schooling for children, and provide better
social services to families. Between June and October, over
21,000 people were educated through the pilot project.
The National School for Civil Servants, with the help of the
ILO, added a course on child labor as part of the curriculum
for Workplace Inspectors.
The government also contributes money to the Institutions for
Female Training and Education (IFEF) centers around the
country where women can go take literacy, cooking, and sewing
courses and learn about hygiene and homemaking.
¶F. The government has a good relationship with international
and local NGOs involved in anti-trafficking efforts. The
Ministry of Family and Social Services is forthcoming and
well regarded in its anti-trafficking interactions with NGOs
and other international organizations. Most local NGOs and
international organizations (except for ILO) that are
involved in the anti-trafficking fight are members of the
NCFTCE, chaired by the Minister of Family and Social Services
and cooperation is good. Since the government does not have
shelters around the country, officials often ask local NGOs
for assistance in offering shelter as well as medical and
psychological assistance to recovered trafficking victims.
¶G. The government is unable to adequately patrol its long,
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porous border. It does not maintain publicly available
statistics on border crossings. Additionally, it is
difficult to know the extent of trafficking across the
northern borders due to the partition of the country.
However, the Ministry of Security has instructed police and
gendarmes at various border points to arrest people trying to
bring children into Cote d'Ivoire. In the south, buses
carrying children being trafficked from Ghana to Cote
d'Ivoire are routinely turned away. The border police prefer
to deny entry into Cote d'Ivoire to children traveling with
people who are not their parents, because they often have no
place to put them. To avoid being apprehended, traffickers
sometimes enter Cote d'Ivoire along the coast by boat.
¶H. The NCFTCE coordinates the efforts of the various
agencies.
¶J. The government finalized its national action plan in
¶2004. Representatives from key ministries played an active
role, as did several international and local NGOs involved in
the anti-trafficking fight. However, the NCFTCE has not
received any money to implement the steps in the plan. The
ILO has pledged $100,000 for 2006 to help implement the plan.
¶4. (SBU) INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF TRAFFICKERS (Para
23, Reftel)
¶A. Cote d'Ivoire does not have a specific law prohibiting or
punishing trafficking in persons. There is no specific law
against slavery. The government, however, has drafted and
submitted legislation against trafficking in persons to the
National Assembly. Given the current political crisis, it is
unclear when the National Assembly will act on the proposed
law.
The government can prosecute traffickers under the law
prohibiting kidnapping of children (Penal Code, Article 371).
The government can also use the law prohibiting the removal
(alienation) of a person's freedom (Article 376), receiving
or leaving a person as a financial security (Article 377), or
imposing labor or a service on a person (Article 378). Bad
treatment, torture, or starvation of minors is also
punishable (Article 362). These laws are used in trafficking
cases. Despite this list of statutes and some arrests, the
proposed anti-trafficking law is needed to adequately cover
the full scope of the problem.
¶B. There are currently no specific penalties for traffickers
of people for sexual or labor exploitation.
¶C. There are currently no specific penalties for sex
trafficking. Rape is punishable by 5-20 years imprisonment
(Penal Code Article 354). The sentence becomes life
imprisonment if the perpetrator has one or more accomplices
or is the father, an older relative or a person who has
responsibility for the victim's upbringing, or if the victim
is under 15 years of age. The penalty for statutory rape or
attempted rape of either a girl or a boy under the age of 15
is 1-3 years in prison and a fine of $150-1,500, less than
for other rape cases(Penal Code Article 356).
¶D. There is no law against prostitution as long as it is
between consenting adults and in private. Accosting a client
is a crime, as is procuring (pimping), even if the prostitute
is an adult. Operating an establishment that is mainly for
prostitution is a crime.
While police officers often receive reports of brothels
operating with trafficked women and children, they are
constrained from following up on these reports by a lack of
police cars. Police also usually do not have any support to
offer victims they rescue.
NGOs have reported that the security forces often use their
position to exploit prostitutes. The local NGO, Movement of
Nid, that operates in the district of Yopougon, an area
highly frequented by prostitutes and their clients, reports
that foreign prostitutes who do not have the proper identity
paper are often forced to have sex with police to avoid going
to jail. The security forces are also frequently customers
of the same brothels that they are charged with dismantling.
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¶E. The government prosecuted one case of trafficking in
¶2005. As no law exists against trafficking, the man was
charged with kidnapping a minor.
¶F. According to various sources, the people involved in the
transnational trafficking trade are transporters and other
traffickers from the countries of origin of the children.
The people receiving the victims (especially
children) are usually people from the same country as the
people being trafficked. The people involved in internal
domestic trafficking are almost all Ivoirians, and are
usually known to the children's parents. The traffickers
are not known to work in large groups or networks. There is
no evidence that government officials are directly implicated
in trafficking. There are no reports indicating that profits
from trafficking in persons are being channeled to other
persons or entities.
¶G. Very rarely does the government investigate cases of
trafficking. As mentioned elsewhere, the government's
ability to devote resources to trafficking has diminished
since the onset of the rebellion. Furthermore, police
officers have very few resources available, usually not even
a government vehicle, to conduct their official duties.
There is no information that the government used undercover
electronic means to investigate trafficking (or any other
crime) nor of there having been offers of immunity from
prosecution for potential witnesses. There is no procedure,
code, or law prohibiting police from engaging in covert
operations.
¶H. The government was unable to provide any specialized
training in 2005 due to budget constraints. The NCFTCE plans
to provide more training with money from the ILO in 2006.
¶I. The multilateral agreement mentioned in section 22A calls
for cross-border cooperation in the investigation of child
trafficking networks and the prosecution of traffickers. At
the time of this report, however, there had not yet been any
instances of international cooperation on trafficking.
¶J. The government has not extradited suspected traffickers.
To date, authorities arrest, try, and require traffickers to
serve their sentence in Cote d'Ivoire before sending them out
of the country. The multi-lateral agreement referred to in
section 22A calls for extradition to signatory countries.
There is no law prohibiting Ivoirians from being extradited.
¶K. There is no evidence that government officials were
directly implicated in trafficking. However, as many aspects
of law enforcement and public administration are open to
bribery and other corruption, some government officials may
have been complicit in trafficking, although we have no hard
evidence of such complicity or other corruption.
¶L. N/A
¶M. Child sex tourism is not known to be a problem in Cote
d'Ivoire.
¶N. The government ratified ILO Convention 182 concerning the
prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the
worst forms of child labor in July 2003.
-The government ratified ILO Convention 29 on forced or
compulsory labor November 25, 1960.
-The government ratified ILO Convention 105 on forced or
compulsory labor on May 5, 1961.
-Cote d,Ivoire ratified the The Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1991. The
Council of Ministers signed the Optional Protocol on the sale
of children, child prostitution, and child pornography at the
end of 2004 and it must now go to parliament.
-The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
Persons, especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN
Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime has not been
signed or ratified.
¶5. (SBU) PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS (Para 24,
Reftel)
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¶A.
The government, in general, does not have special centers for
victims. The government requires the help of local NGOs that
have centers and can provide shelter, medical and
psychological assistance to the victims. However, government
practices have evolved in recent years. Historically, police
have sent rescued children to the police academy in Abidjan.
More frequently, the police now call the Ministry of Family
and Social Services or an NGO to take care of the child.
¶B.
The government does not provide funding to foreign or
domestic NGOs for services to victims. The government asks
international NGOs to give money to local NGOs that have the
capacity to provide services to the victims and encourages
international NGOs to conduct anti-trafficking campaigns. The
government has also assigned one civil servant to work with
the Abel Community of Grand Bassam. In Bonoua, the mayor and
deputy mayor have assigned their assistants to work with the
watch groups and provided an office and a room to accommodate
the child victims until they are picked up by Abel.
¶C.
There is no formal screening and referral process in place.
When trafficking victims are brought into police custody in
major Ivoirian cities, the police normally contact the
Ministry of Family and Social Services which alerts local and
international NGOS that can provide support and shelter.
¶D.
Trafficking victims are not usually arrested, but some are
prosecuted on a case-by-case basis for offenses such as
prostitution or documentary fraud. On several occasions,
trafficked children were kept in police custody in centers
for young delinquents because the police officers did not
know where else to keep them.
¶E.
The government does not encourage or discourage victims from
assisting in the investigation and prosecution of
trafficking. The absence of a law against trafficking limits
the recourse a victim has in the judicial system.
There is no program of witness protection or program of
restitution. Moreover, foreign victims who are material
witnesses in court cases against former employers must leave
the country if they cannot find other employment. If the
victim is an adult, the victim can file a complaint. If the
victim is a child, the police usually attempt to return the
child to his/her family or to a community member.
¶F.
No special protection is given beyond what is normally given
to witnesses in other criminal cases. The government does
not run any shelters. If shelter or other benefits are
needed for victims, the government would refer the case to an
NGO. However, the government has placed a building plus
utilities at the disposal of the International Catholic
Bureau of the Child that BICE has converted into a shelter
for children in difficult situations.
¶G.
The government was unable to conduct training sessions for
government and security officials during the year due to
budget constraints. The government does not provide training
on protection to its embassies and consulates in foreign
countries.
¶H.
There was no formal government assistance for repatriated
nationals who were victims of trafficking.
¶I.
Several international organizations and NGO's work on
trafficking issues in Cote d'Ivoire, including Save the
Children UK and Sweden, UNICEF, GTZ, the BICE (International
Catholic Bureau of the Child), and the ILO.
Local NGOs include: Afrique Secours Assistance (ASA), the
Abel Community, the Movement of Nid, the Amigo Doume
Foundation, EASEMO, MAEJT, and Cote d'Ivoire Prosperity.
As noted above, the government cooperates with NGOs but
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provides little material support due to a lack of funding.
International NGOs provide funds for the local NGOs to assist
victims of trafficking. Services include counseling,
literacy courses, medical care, reuniting victims with their
families in Cote d'Ivoire, and repatriating foreign victims.
END TRAFFICKING RESPONSES.
Mission point of contact is FS O5 PolOff Phaedra Gwyn:
(225)22-49-45-70 or fax (225)22-49-40-20 gwynpm@state.gov.
Estimated number of hours by Officers spent on TIP Report is
85 hours.
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