Awareness Against Human Trafficking (HAART) is a registered organization in the Republic of Kenya under the NGO Coordination Act of 1990. The organization was formed by people who have been working on social issues and have been encountering anecdotal stories of Kenyans and other East Africans being trafficked as a result of child labor and sexual exploitation. HAART is also enriched with the vast experience of Radoslaw Malinowski who has been managing the counter human trafficking desk at the Center For Social Concern (CFSC) in Malawi as well as coordinating research for the Dennis Hurley Peace Institute on human trafficking and its impact on security in South Africa. Based on the vast experiences the organization would enhance its work in carrying out the task of eradicating human trafficking in Kenya and to effectively address the urgent need to combat human trafficking. Human trafficking has been on the raise of late. Evidently as reported by the media in the current news, human trafficking is taking place in different forms in Kenya. The fact is, all forms of trafficking are taking place Kenya which has already been identified as a source, transit and destination according to Trafficking in person report 2010. Men, women and children are all subjected to trafficking mostly for labour, prostitution, domestic servitude, adoption and witchcraft. As per the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Trans-national Organized Crime
‘Trafficking in persons’ shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.’
First it was Albinos who were being killed with a belief that their private parts will make them rich now it’s everyone. This is based on the recent killings where people are found dead and missing their private parts. Cases of removed private parts from people who are already dead and in mortuaries have also been reported. Indeed they is a dire need to create an awareness on human trafficking in Kenya so that everyone may know it's form and how it happens, so that we can all finally look at trafficking of persons not only as a moral wrong but also as a crime against humanity. Clear cut laws should be implemented to curb this vice
Kenya now has a Counter Trafficking Act that defines what Human and child trafficking is. It also defines the offenses and their punishment therefore.
