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The five islands of
the current Netherlands Antilles are a transit and destination point for men
and women from Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, Cuba, the Dominican Republic
and other parts of South America and the Caribbean, trafficked for the
purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. - U.S. State
Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full
country report] |
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CAUTION: The following links
have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in The Netherland
Antilles. Some of these links may lead
to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false.
No attempt has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEB-PAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspects of Human Trafficking are of particular
interest to you. Would you like to
write about Forced-Labor? Debt
Bondage? Prostitution? Forced Begging? Child Soldiers? Sale of Organs? etc. On the other
hand, you might choose to include precursors of trafficking such as poverty and hunger. There is a lot to
the subject of Trafficking. Scan other
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between activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
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ARCHIVES *** Training on
combating human trafficking The Daily Herald St.
Maarten At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 9
September 2011] Civil servants
working in the judicial sector in the Netherlands
Antilles will participate in a training session that will take place in
St. Maarten June 13-15. The session is being organised
by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), which extended an
invitation to civil servants because of their efforts to combat illegal human
trafficking. Purpose of the
meeting is to stimulate regional cooperation and sharing of information.
Specific strategies on setting up national information campaigns and
developing national legislation on human trafficking will be discussed. Joran's father
denies knowledge of 'human trafficking Radio www.rnw.nl/english/article/jorans-father-denies-knowledge-human-trafficking [accessed 29 August
2011] www.rnw.org/archive/jorans-father-denies-knowledge-human-trafficking [accessed 24
September 2016] Paulus van der Sloot, father of the Holloway
case suspect Joran, is refusing to respond to allegations that his son told
him about what happened to the missing American teenager. In an interview
aired in the US on Tuesday, Joran told Fox News TV how he had sold Natalee
Holloway to a Venezuelan man on the beach in Aruba for 10,000 dollars. Human Rights
Reports » 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eur/119096.htm [accessed 23
February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The law in the mainland There were reports
that trafficking in persons for commercial sex and labor was a problem in the
Netherlands Antilles. During the year a
foreign court ordered the Curacao Drydock Company
in the Netherlands Antilles to pay
damages to three Cuban workers who were among the approximately 100 who were
forced to work for long hours with virtually no pay in 2005 and 2006. All
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