Project Details

Main Objective

To liaise with agencies, government bodies, civil societies and training institutes in order to stamp out human trafficking and organ harvesting

Description

In the past one and a half decades, human and organ trafficking has claimed the lives and rights of thousands of Ugandans. The evil of human trafficking has its seeds sown in the Ugandan community by unemployment, poverty and naivety among the youths most especially graduates since they resort to going overseas looking for instant solutions to home problems, high paying jobs and good working conditions there by ending up trafficked by agents, who promise them lucrative paychecks and benefits. The political class is silent about the issue. Internal security organs hardly provide solutions. Offices concerned simply endorse the movements since the deals are paying astronomical figures.

This leaves the victims at the mercy of traffickers who end up holding their travel documents and selling them into bondage and others are forced to donate their organs as an exchange for a life. On the basis of available evidence, the youths are easily lured into being trafficked even when they are already employed. This is done through fraudulent advertisements over social media, electronic media and print media. A recent research conducted by GRONET shows that although boys and men are trafficked, women and girls are more likely to be trafficked and the effects are devastating (Forced prostitution).

There is latent demand to create awareness among school going ages, graduates and small communities that makeup regions in Uganda. Traffickers acknowledge that human and organ trafficking is a bad practice too but goes on silently behind curtains. Victims sign contracts that bind them to the employer and denied basic human rights. The study also showed that young girls in their prime teen and early twenties have much higher chances of being trafficked to work as housemaids, babysitters, cleaners and prostitutes in parts of Asia and in some Arab countries.
In this context, awareness programs should serve as a constant reminder in putting a stop to the vice. Creating a mindset where “everyone is each other’s brothers’ and sister’s keeper”, policy makers and human rights organizations in the country must be advised to rethink their role in legislations against human trafficking, servitude and human Organ harvesting.