17/02/2025
TRAFFICKING FOR S*X- KENYA.
S*x trafficking
Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to s*x trafficking. Boys were increasingly subjected to trafficking. Girls and boys are exploited in commercial s*x throughout Kenya, including in s*x tourism in Nairobi, Kisumu, and on the coast, particularly in informal settlements; at times, their exploitation is facilitated by family members. Children are also exploited in s*x trafficking by people working in khat (a mild narcotic) cultivation areas, near gold mines in western Kenya, by truck drivers along major highways, and by fishermen on Lake Victoria. Kenyans are recruited by legal or illegal employment agencies or voluntarily migrate to Europe, the United States, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, and Oman, in search of employment, where at times they are exploited in massage parlours and brothels,. Reports allege gay and bis*xual Kenyan men are deceptively recruited from universities with promises of overseas jobs, but are forced into prostitution in Qatar and UAE. Kenyan women are subjected to forced prostitution in Thailand by Ugandan and Nigerian traffickers.[16]
Some children in Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps may be subjected to s*x trafficking. Children from East Africa and South Sudan are subjected to s*x trafficking in Kenya. Trucks transporting goods from Kenya to Somalia returned to Kenya with girls and women subsequently exploited in brothels in Nairobi or Mombasa. Nepalese and Indian women recruited to work in mujra dance clubs in Nairobi and Mombasa face debt bo***ge, which they are forced to pay off by dancing and forced prostitution.[16]
The United States Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons ranks Kenya as a 'Tier 2' country.[17]
See also: Human trafficking in Kenya-WIKIPEDIA
