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Costa Rican Lawmakers Debate Human Trafficking Law
Local and international organizations, including the International Organization for Migrations presented Costa Rican lawmakers this month with a bill prohibiting human trafficking.
In April, authorities discovered 36 Asian migrants who were working in “slave-like” conditions on a shark finning boat in off of the Central American country’s Pacific Coast. Law enforcement officials said the migrants, who came from the Philippines, Indonesia, China and Vietnam, were not paid for their work by the Costa Rican fishing company that hired them and that many of them entered Costa Rica with tourist visas.
Environmentalists, particularly Randall Arauz, the winner of the 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize, say that illegal shark finning is often tied to other illicit activities such as human trafficking and immigration fraud.
Costa Rica was not singled out by the U.S. State Department’s 2010 report on Trafficking in Persons released this week, unlike fellow Latin American nations Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Panama, which denied the accusations.
Tags : 2010 trafficking in persons report, costa rica, human trafficking
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