IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1412 
Congratulating the Government of South Africa upon its first two successful 
convictions for human trafficking. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 27, 2010 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself, Ms. GRANGER, and Mrs. MALONEY) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Congratulating the Government of South Africa upon its 
first two successful convictions for human trafficking. 
Whereas from June 11, 2010, through July 11, 2010, the 
2010 FIFA World Cup will be hosted by South Africa 
and include games played in stadiums across the country, 
including 
Cape 
Town, 
Port 
Elizabeth, 
Durban, 
Bloemfontein, 
Rustenburg, 
Pretoria, 
Johannesburg, 
Nelspruit, and Polokwane; 
Whereas the 2010 FIFA World Cup is likely to attract an 
estimated 2,700,000 local spectators and 350,000 to 
500,000 visitors to the country; 
Whereas the influx of tourism is likely to lead to an increase 
in demand for sexual services and create demand for the 
commercial sexual exploitation of women and children; 
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•HRES 1412 IH 
Whereas the preparations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup 
have resulted in an influx of foreign workers, some of 
whom have gone on strike for nonpayment of wages; 
Whereas the hospitality industries may be particularly sus-
ceptible to labor trafficking during the 2010 FIFA World 
Cup; 
Whereas the Government of South Africa has invested in 
media campaigns and the training of law enforcement to 
detect and prevent human trafficking; 
Whereas the Government of South Africa has ordered schools 
to be closed during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, raising 
concerns that children will be unattended during a period 
of high trafficking potential; 
Whereas the United States Department of State has reported 
that, ‘‘South Africa is a source, transit, and destination 
country for trafficked men, women, and children. . . . 
Children are largely trafficked within the country . . . to 
urban centers like Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, 
and Bloemfontein—girls trafficked for the purposes of 
commercial sexual exploitation and domestic servitude; 
boys trafficked for forced street vending, food service, 
begging, crime, and agriculture . . .’’; 
Whereas women and girls have reportedly been trafficked into 
South Africa from as far away as Russia, Thailand, 
Pakistan, Philippines, India, China, Bulgaria, Romania, 
Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Bu-
rundi, Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, 
Kenya, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Somalia; and 
Whereas civil society in South Africa has invested tremendous 
energy and resources into preventing human trafficking 
at the 2010 FIFA World Cup through Cape Town Tour-
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•HRES 1412 IH 
ism, Leadership Conference of Consecrated Religious and 
the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the 
Catholic Church, the Salvation Army, the Tshwane 
Counter-Trafficking Coalition for 2010, and many other 
nongovernmental and religious organizations: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) congratulates the Government of South Af-
rica upon its first two successful convictions for 
human trafficking; 
(2) calls on the Government of South Africa to 
move quickly to adopt the Prevention and Com-
bating of Trafficking in Persons Bill in order to fa-
cilitate future prosecutions; 
(3) calls on the Government of South Africa to 
increase awareness among all levels of relevant gov-
ernment officials as to their responsibilities under 
the trafficking provisions of the Sexual Offenses and 
Children’s Acts; 
(4) calls on the Government of South Africa to 
prioritize anti-trafficking law enforcement during the 
2010 FIFA World Cup through expanded law en-
forcement presence, raids, and other measures in 
areas where trafficking for labor and sexual exploi-
tation are likely to occur; 
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•HRES 1412 IH 
(5) calls on the Government of South Africa to 
divert all prostituted persons under the age of 18 
from the criminal system into rehabilitative care; 
(6) calls on the Government of South Africa to 
ensure shelters and rehabilitative care are available 
to all human trafficking victims for the 2010 FIFA 
World Cup and beyond; 
(7) calls on the Government of South Africa to 
adopt measures to protect vulnerable children, in-
cluding those children unattended because of school 
closures and refugee children, as well as other poten-
tial victims, from sexual and labor exploitation; and 
(8) urges the Government of South Africa to 
detain and prosecute tourists participating in com-
mercial sexual exploitation of women and children 
during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. 
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