According to "Inkyfada" website: Domestic slavery in Tunisia

"Inkyfada" website, citing the Tunisian Interior Ministry, revealed that the latter counted seven cases of the minors’ domestic servitude. "This figure does not reflect the reality, as it is supposed to be more than that (hundred times more). Raoudha Bayoudh, the head of the social protection (sub-department of the Ministry of the Interior) expressed her regrets towards this issue.

In its report on human trafficking in Tunisia, "Inkyfada" highlighted that, in 2017, the child protection delegates submitted more than 13 000 reports, almost half of them about girls, but very few were directly related to economic exploitation and begging, while there were no figures for domestic slavery.

The National Authority against Trafficking in Persons counted about 742 victims (children and adults), between April 2017 and 31 January 2018, i.e. out of 10 persons, there is one victim of domestic servitude, without specifying the number of victims from minors.

In 2017, the Ministry of the Interior intervened in 183 cases related to trafficking in persons, and 20 cases of arrests were registered in the same period, of which 11.4% were related to domestic servitude, while 5 belonged to minor victims (the remaining two were registered by the Ministry of the Interior in 2018) .

The arrested people or wanted for justice, in the context of the domestic exploitation of minors are mainly the employers (or legal guardians) and intermediaries.

The head of the National Authority for Combating Trafficking in Persons stressed in her statement to "Inkyfada" that the labour law and some other special laws should be reviewed, as some provisions allow the employment of minors in the fields of agriculture and fishing, noting that the judges do not implement the laws in force, in the cases of children’s exploitation.

In 2017, the judiciary considered only 18 files related to the exploitation of children, of which 7 were adapted as "trafficking in persons", where most victims were children, especially girls.

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