Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Poverty drives the unsuspecting poor into the
hands of traffickers Published reports & articles from 2000 to 2025 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Luxembourg.htm
Luxembourg is a
destination country for women trafficked primarily from Russia and Ukraine
for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. An increasing number of
women from Africa, primarily Nigeria, are engaged in prostitution in the
country, and are particularly vulnerable to trafficking due to debts they
incur in the process of migrating – legally or illegally -- to Luxembourg.
The government and NGOs did not identify any cases of forced labor during the
reporting period. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June,
2009 Check out a later country report here and possibly a full TIP Report here |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Concluding
Observations of the Human Rights Committee Human Rights www1.umn.edu/humanrts/hrcommittee/luxembourg2003.html [accessed 18
February 2011] [3] The Committee
has taken note of the ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Luxembourg U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/luxembourg/
[accessed 14 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR There were reports
that foreign men and women were engaged in forced labor, chiefly in the
construction and restaurant sectors. Some children were engaged in forced
begging (see section 7.c.). PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT Romani children
from neighboring countries were sometimes brought into the country during the
day and trafficked for the purpose of forced begging (see section 7.b.). Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/luxembourg/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 8 July
2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? The country’s
residents largely enjoy equality of opportunity, and the government enforces
legal protections against exploitative working conditions. Occasional cases
of forced labor in the construction and food-service industries have been
reported, especially among migrant workers. One in 12 children
forced into world's 'worst forms' of labor Agence France-Presse AFP, www.worldrevolution.org/news/article1773.htm [accessed 20 April
2012] [accessed 13
February 2019] "One way to
put an end to the exploitation of children... is by taking action to make
poverty history and ensuring a commitment to more and better international
aid," said UNICEF UNICEF UK lauded
the pledge of developed countries, made more than 30 years ago, of allocating
0.7 percent of gross domestic product to development aid but regretted that
only five countries today fulfill that promise -- Denmark, Norway, the
Netherlands, Luxembourg and
Sweden. Why Prostitution
Should Not Be Decriminilised Marge Ballin (Ministry Director), Inter Outreach Ministries, christianaction-org-za.win07.glodns.net/articles/whyprostitutionnotdecrim.htm [accessed 18
February 2011] [accessed 13
February 2019] SEXUAL SLAVERY,
TRAFFICKING AND FORCED PROSTITUTION AN INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM - it will escalate
in south africa if we decriminilize
prostitution. Sexual slavery is an
International business and an International problem. The International
Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) has uncovered the existence of a
number of International networks and crime syndicates involved in buying and
transporting women and children for sexual exploitation. In other words,
sexual slavery is conducted in an International scale. According to the
report, trafficking in thousands of women and children flows from Latin
America to Puerto Rico, to Southern Europe and Eastern Europe and the Middle
East. Another flows from Southeast Asia to the Middle East and Central and
Northern Europe. There is a regional European market, supplied in part by
Latin America and exporting French women to Luxembourg and the Federal Republic of Germany. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 28 January 2005 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/088444825a515464c1256fa5004a3996?OpenDocument [accessed 18
February 2011] www.refworld.org/docid/43f305330.html [accessed 4 February
2018] [57] While
welcoming the many legislative and other measures taken by the State party to
combat and raise awareness of the problem of sexual exploitation, trafficking
in persons and child pornography, the Committee is concerned that the
conditions of work for women and girls arriving in Luxembourg to work in the
entertainment sector are such that they may be exposed to the risk of prostitution
and trafficking in human beings. Concluding comments
of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women:
Luxembourg 17 January 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cedaw/luxembourg2000.html [accessed 18
February 2011] 394. The Committee
welcomes the law of May 1999 that strengthened measures against trafficking
in humans and the sexual exploitation of children and, in particular,
extended 411. The Committee
urges the Government to develop a policy and legislation to prevent and eliminate
domestic violence, and sexual violence, including rape, against women and
girls, and to prosecute violators. The Committee calls on the State party to
collect statistics on th e incidence of domestic
violence, and comprehensive information on the impact of measures against
domestic violence. The Committee also
recommends that the Government gather further information on the impact of
the law on trafficking in humans and the sexu al
exploitation of children. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61661.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The law prohibits trafficking in persons; however, the country was a
destination for women trafficked from There were no
government services specifically for victims of trafficking; however, two
NGOs, which were fully financed by the government, provided shelter and
counseling assistance to women in distress. There were no government prevention programs specifically
targeting trafficking at year's end. All
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