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Mr President, Guatemala has been caught up in a culture of violence which the government seems unable to curb. There is a feeling of terror, mainly among families living in the slums, which suffer the highest murder rates. Trafficking of women and children is commonplace.
‘No protection, no justice’. That is the title of an Amnesty report published last month which estimated that nearly 1 200 women and girls were brutally killed between 2001 and 2004. Many had been raped. Fewer than one in ten murders have been investigated. A nine-month study beginning in 2003 discovered that 688 girls were trafficked into different Guatemalan cities. These girls were not only from Guatemala, but from other Latin American countries as well.
As the girls were recruited by criminal organisations, all the victims were between 14 and 18 years old. They were led to believe when recruited that they would work as waitresses in Guatemala, only to be told the true nature of the job afterwards. They are often beaten up or locked in a room for several days without food for being disobedient. They do not run away as they are living in a state of fear. The government must prosecute the criminals who are involved in this trafficking.
Other illegal practices have developed, including kidnapping babies, payments to mothers to rent out their wombs and buying of babies from very poor mothers. Guatemala must bring in specific legislation on adoptions and apply the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption. Measures must be taken by the government on all these issues. If it does not do that, we as an international community are quite right to condemn it."@en1
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