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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Belgium.htm
Belgium is a destination and transit
country for men, women, and girls trafficked for the purposes of forced labor
and commercial sexual exploitation. Women and girls are trafficked to Belgium
for sexual exploitation primarily from Nigeria, Russia, Albania, Bulgaria,
Romania, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and through Belgium to other
European countries, such as the United Kingdom. Male victims are trafficked
to Belgium for labor exploitation in restaurants, bars, sweatshops,
horticulture, fruit farms, and construction sites. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Squalid road that leads to Andrew Osborne in www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/jun/24/andrewosborn.theobserver [accessed 22 January 2011] It may be the spiritual capital of
the grand European project but, according to a damning new report, ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61639.htm [accessed 22 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS –
Trafficking victims continued to come primarily from sub-Saharan Africa
(particularly There appeared to be a decreasing
number of trafficking cases that were the work of organized gangs from
Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7 June 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/belgium2002.html [accessed 22 January 2011] [27] The Committee reiterates its
satisfaction for the numerous measures taken by the State party to combat the
sexual exploitation and trafficking of children. It is nevertheless concerned
that trafficking for the purposes of sexual or other exploitation is still a
problem. Research based on case studies of victims of trafficking in human beings in 3 EU Member States, i.e. Belgium, Italy and The Netherlands [PDF] Commission of the European Communities, DG Justice &
Home Affairs, Hippokrates JAI/2001/HIP/023 Bruno Moens, Country Isabella Orfano, et.al., Country Ruth Hopkins and Jan Nijboer.
Country Report, The www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/payoke_on_the_road_de_rode_.pdf [accessed 22 January 2011] [page 397]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - This project was carried out in General recommendations are
provided in 14 clusters. However, in each country report, the researchers
offer an assessment of national laws and policies on THB as well as their
assistance programs. The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/belgium.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Women and children are
trafficked to Belgian and foreign children are
sexually exploited in Belgium. Foreign
minors are exploited in sweatshops, Turkish bakeries, and Moroccan shops.
They are also used as domestic servants in diplomats’ homes. Sports agents
exploit young soccer players from Africa and South America. Reportedly, gangs organize begging rings
involving minors or people with disabilities. Such gangs operate in large
cities and involve mostly adults or children from Romania. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7566 [accessed 22 January 2011] Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/belgium [accessed 22 January 2011] National Projects - Studies www.childfocus.be/en/activities_4_1.php#2 [access date unavailable] THE
DISAPPEARANCE OF UNACCOMPANIED MINORS VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS [ed. Note: DE PAUW, H., Brussels, Child Focus, April
2002, 108 p.] - A
first study published by Child Focus concerns the disappearance of
unaccompanied minors and minors who are victims of trafficking in human
beings. Child Focus has observed in effect that there are many questions and
uncertainties in the field with regard to this problem. The disappearance of
these young people is extremely worrying as these victims do not have anyone
in Belgium to whom they can turn to when they find themselves in
difficulties. These youngsters do not understand the language, are in a
country that they barely know and often are also seriously traumatised by what they experienced on their journey to
Belgium. Ideal “prey” to fall (again) into the hands of traffickers and
smugglers of human beings. Squalid road that leads to Andrew Osborne in www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/jun/24/andrewosborn.theobserver [accessed 22 January 2011] It may be the spiritual capital of
the grand European project but, according to a damning new report, Sex Trafficking In Expatica.com, April 2003 www.genderberg.com/phpNuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12 [accessed 22 January 2011] The trafficking of adults and
minors for sexual exploitation has been of growing concern to WHY BELGIUM? - “Most of those destined for prostitution are young women between the ages of 21 and 30 and teenage girls under the age of 18.” According to a report by the Centre for Equal Opportunities, out of about 150 who testified as having escaped some form of exploitation in Belgium, 88 had been forced into prostitution. The reported victims were from Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Liberia, Nigeria, Sudan, China and Thailand. NADIA'S
STORY - Nadia has
been working as a prostitute on Avenue Louise for three months. She was
brought to Belgium by a family friend who had promised her bar work which
would pay more than in her native Ukraine.
Upon her arrival, she was dropped off at a brothel on the
French-Belgian border where, at one stage, she had 30 clients a day and was
not let out for periods of up to four weeks. She ‘escaped'. “The landlady said I owed her money to stay
there so I had to work. The police don't mind brothels but they don't know
what goes on in them. You're freer on the streets, it's better.” All material used herein
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