This paper is about the West African country Togo and the human rights violations. In Togo, women and children are neglected, abused, kidnapped, raped, and even forced to become slaves or traffickers. Women and young girls have to undergo female genital mutilation. The women and children are forced to undergo this hundred year old tradition to “protect” the girl’s modesty and to save the girl’s virginity for marriage. Both women and children are forced through human, drug, and sex trafficking. Children in this region are often kidnapped and forced to work under harsh conditions. When the children are kidnapped the kidnappers promise a new life, and better conditions for the child and the child’s family. If the children aren’t kidnapped or lured, …show more content…
“Orphans face many grave human rights abuses, and trafficking is surely one of the worst” (West Africa, 2003). Sometimes families lose children or children are abducted or lured from their homes. Young girls and women are at a higher stake of being forced into human, drug, or sex trafficking. Not only because these women live in a third world country, but also because the power in these countries lies in man’s hands. Once they are forced in, they “disappear” or it is often extremely difficult to pull them out of it. “She understood that our lack of political will and investment to protect girls from child marriage, sex trafficking, sexual violence, domestic servitude, denial of education or food were sides of the same coin” (Crawford, 2008). Ignoring what is happening to the people of Togo doesn’t make it okay or make it go away. Even Togo’s own government hides what is actually going on behind closed doors. The government tries to cover it up, or tone down the statistics to make it look like a minor problem. Women have no voice and if the women speak up about the lack of these human rights, punishments go into effect. Not only can these women not reach out for help but cannot even count on their own government to help them because even the government is lying. The country of Togo is violating women and children’s rights because women are forced to undergo female genital mutilation and sex slavery, children are forced into labor, and both women and children suffer through human, drug, and sex
of her flesh being cut. She also remembers bleeding and being sick for weeks. This extreme form of FGM has been performed on 82 per cent of Sudanese women, according to a recent survey. Today, 85 to 114 million girls and women in more than 30 countries have been subjected to FGM. Female genital mutilation has long been performed to ensure chaste or monogamous behaviour by suppressing female sexuality. It is commonly -- although erroneously -- attributed to religious edict. In fact, neither