Global Issues

Kiritabi

• Source country for girls subjected to sex trafficking.

• Violence and discrimination against women, child abuse, and commercial sexual exploitation of children are main human rights problems.

• Crew members on Korean and perhaps other foreign fishing vessels in Kiribati or in its territorial waters exploit prostituted children on board their vessels.

• Girls also are prostituted in bars frequented by crew members.

• Local I-Kiribati, sometimes family members, but also taxi drivers and owners of small boats, knowingly facilitate trafficking by transporting underage girls to the boats for the purposes of prostitution.

• 60% of women in Kiritabi report intimate partner physical violence in their lifetime.

• 46.4% of women report sexual intimate partner violence in their lifetime.

• 11% of women report intimate partner and/or non -partner physical violence in their lifetime.

• 10% of women report intimate partner and/or non -partner sexual violence in their lifetime.

• 73% report intimate partner and/or non -partner sexual and/or physical violence in their lifetime.

• 20% report forced first sex.

• 23% report abuse during pregnancy.

 

Advocacy:

• Ministry of Internal and Social Affairs worked with UNICEF to begin a public outreach on the commercial sexual exploitation of children

 

Sources: UN Women Violence against Women Prevalence Data:  Surveys  by  Country 2011; U.S. Department of State 2010 Human Rights Report, U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report 2011