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/Netherlands.htm
The Netherlands is a
source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children
trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced
labor. During 2008, most female victims were exploited in forced
prostitution, and the majority of identified sex trafficking victims were
from the Netherlands. Within the Netherlands, victims are trafficked by so
called “pimp boys” or “lover boys”—men who seduce vulnerable young women and
girls and force them into prostitution. Males were trafficked
into commercial sexual exploitation as well as forced labor in the catering,
cleaning, agriculture and construction sectors. The main countries of origin
for male victims were China, India, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and the
Netherlands. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 Check
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Canada Considers
Further Legalizing While Amsterdam Admits Legalization's Failure LifeSiteNews, Ottawa/Amsterdam,
Wed Oct 05, 2005 [accessed 4 February
2016] Policemen in
Amsterdam's infamous red light district were quoted by Dutch media Friday as
saying, "We are in the midst of modern slavery." Due to the
legalization of prostitution in the Trafficked to the
West Jill McGivering, BBC news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4663841.stm [accessed 23
February 2011] Last summer, she
had been approached by a childhood friend, she told me. He said he knew someone who was recruiting
women to work as prostitutes in Within weeks she
arrived in ***
ARCHIVES *** Vietnamese kids
missing from Dutch shelters victims of human trafficking: Rapporteur Janene Pieters, NL Times, 26 March 2020 nltimes.nl/2020/03/26/vietnamese-kids-missing-dutch-shelters-victims-human-trafficking-rapporteur [accessed 26 March
2020] A massive 97
percent of Vietnamese children taken in by the protected asylum shelter in
the Netherlands have disappeared, according to the National Rapporteur on
Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence against Children. "The suspicion
that a large proportion of these children fall into the hands of human
traffickers or people smugglers have been confirmed." The Netherlands
must do something, Rapporteur Herman Bolhaar said,
NU.nl reports. Bolhaar calls it beyond
time for new measures to protect children coming to seek safety in the
Netherlands. "I find it incomprehensible that this has not happened yet.
The Dutch State is also responsible for these children," he said,
according to the newspaper. 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Netherlands 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/netherlands/
[accessed 18 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR Isolated incidents
of forced or compulsory labor occurred in the kingdom. Victims of coerced
labor included both domestic and foreign women and men, as well as boys and
girls (see section 7.c.) forced to work in, among other sectors, agriculture,
horticulture, catering, domestic servitude and cleaning, the inland shipping
sector, and forced criminality (including illegal narcotics trafficking).
Refugees and asylum seekers, including unaccompanied children, are vulnerable
to labor trafficking. Freedom House Country Report 2018 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/netherlands/freedom-world/2018 [accessed 4 May 2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? While the
Netherlands is a source, destination, and transit point for human
trafficking, the government makes strong efforts to combat it, vigorously
investigating and prosecuting suspected traffickers. In 2017, the government
continued to implement its National Program against Child Pornography and
Child Sex Tourism. Training Related to
Combating Human Trafficking: Netherlands The Law Library of
Congress www.loc.gov/law/help/human-trafficking/netherlands.php [accessed 15 March
2018] ACTION PLAN
2011–2014
-- For the period 2011–2014, the Dutch government instituted the “Government-Wide
Approach to the Loverboy Problem: Action Plan 2011–2014.”[3] “Loverboy victims” is a term used to refer
to Dutch underage female victims of human trafficking, although social
workers have interpreted the term in various ways.[4] According to the Action Plan report, [c]onsiderable efforts have been made in the areas of
prevention, investigation and prosecution in the last few years [in
connection with the loverboy problem]. Various
prevention projects have been started, curricula have been developed for
primary and secondary schools, films have been produced and social media have
been used for prevention campaigns. . . . Progress has also been made in
relation to the investigation and prosecution of offenders. For example, in a
two-year pilot project in Rotterdam, the police are developing innovative
methods for establishing contact with victims and offenders, such as taking
part in online chat sessions to investigate who is initiating contacts with
underage girls and how they are doing it. Brides for sale:
European women lured for sham marriages Sylvia Hui And Karel
Janicek, Associated Press AP, 25 May 2015 hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_TRAFFICKED_BRIDES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT [accessed 28 May
2015] www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article22313613.html [accessed 4 May
2020] Most brides get
paid-for trips to Britain, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands, and some
don't fully realize what they've gotten themselves into until they arrive.
Women have been held captive until their marriage papers are signed, abused
by their "husband" and his friends, used for sex and drug
trafficking or even made to marry more than once, according to European
authorities and charities. "Depending on
the case, a woman can be sold for thousands of euros," said Angelika
Molnar, an anti-trafficking specialist at Europol. "I can tell you it is
lucrative." A tortuous tale of
human trafficking Clare Short, www.thefreelibrary.com/A+tortuous+tale+of+human+trafficking+on+our+doorstep%3B+AGENDA.-a0181055911 [accessed 4 July
2013] I asked what her
problem was, and she said it was very complicated. She then started to weep
quietly, big silent tears sliding down her cheeks. More than ten years ago,
she was offered a job in Holland. She
signed a paper to say that she would repay the fare. She left two children with relatives and
said she would send money. When she got to
Holland, she was imprisoned in a flat and forced to work as a prostitute. She
was paid nothing and had a terrible time, all along desperately worried about
her children. After some time, she escaped and lived for a while homeless on
the streets. She found she was pregnant.
She then met a kind Dutch man who took her home and cared for her. Her
daughter was born and he suggested they marry. They went to the Dutch authorities to try
to regularise her position. They said she must
return to Nigeria to apply to return. She agreed to do this because she wanted
to be legal, but they would not let her take her daughter because she was
born in Holland. Her daughter was taken into care. Back home, the gang
that trafficked her said she must repay $45,000. She explained that she had
no money. They then burnt down her father’s house and later beat her so badly
that she spent three months in hospital. She then escaped by coming to the UK
and applying for asylum. Her Dutch partner comes to visit her regularly. They have married in the UK, but she cannot
go with him to Holland. She cannot
work in the UK. She cannot join her husband in Holland. She is terrified for
her children in Nigeria and yearning to see her daughter who is now eight and
in care in Holland. Lenihan gets tough on
people trafficking Tom Brady, Security
Editor, Independent.ie, October 26 2007 www.independent.ie/national-news/lenihan-gets-tough-on-people-trafficking-1203975.html [accessed 23
February 2011] www.irishtimes.com/news/lenihan-issues-warning-on-human-trafficking-risk-1.813966 [accessed 24
September 2016] Dutch police say
Nigerian children were controlled through Voodoo threats, trafficked into Amsterdam with false documents and then
told to apply for asylum. They were
accommodated in care centres but were then forced
out by the trafficking ring and sent as prostitutes to the other
countries. Police estimated that more
than 130 girls went missing and some were later found on the streets of
European capitals. 5 people detained
for human trafficking Expatica, scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=1881.600 [accessed 23
February 2011] Five individuals
from The case came to
light after an attempt to find living accommodation for the 18-year-old
victim. The person running the accommodation agency tipped off the police
because he found the girl very young and suspected that she was forced into
prostitution. At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9
September 2011] Victims of human
trafficking may stay in the Dutch urge clients
to report forced prostitution Alexandra Hudson,
Reuters, Amsterdam, January 12, 2006 tribes.tribe.net/humantrafficking/thread/eefb2135-e291-49f5-898d-552d3271f035 [accessed 3 February
2016] www.religionnewsblog.com/13239/dutch-urge-clients-to-report-forced-prostitution [accessed 13 June
2017] The Last year Dutch
police received more than 600 tip-offs about women who may have been forced
into prostitution, and 400 women contacted the Dutch foundation against
female trafficking. Tatiana's Story Stop Human Traffic,
Anti-Slavery International www.neww.eu/news/news/1,1309,2.html [accessed 31 August
2014] PROSTITUTION -
UKRAINE TO HOLLAND
- Like most victims of trafficking, Tatiana's reason for traveling abroad was
to support her family. Through an agent in 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] www.globalpolicy.org/global-taxes/46700-one-in-twelve-of-the-worlds-children-are.html [accessed 7 February
2018] 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. Sexual Exploitation
- ECPAT The Defence for Children
International The At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9
September 2011] ecpat.home.xs4all.nl/engels.htm [accessed 7 February
2018] ECPAT-NL exists since
1995 and as of 2003 is a cooperative with Defence
for Children International The Netherlands. ECPAT-NL works closely with organisations in The Netherlands and internationally that
are active against sexual abuse and exploitation of children. ECPAT-NL is
supported by stichting Kinderpostzegels
Nederland, Plan Nederland ( the former Foster Parents Plan), Mensen in Nood, Cordaid and Kerk in Actie, Kinderen in de Knel. ECPAT-NL is raising
awareness on commercial sexual exploitation of children in Dutch society.
ECPAT-NL is also lobbying for adequate and effective law enforcement and
prevention and healthcare programmes regarding the
prevention of sexual exploitation of children at governmental and societal
level. Also the private sector, like internet service providers and the
tourism industry are addressed to take responsibility to protect children
from sexual exploitation. ECPAT-NL has played an important role in the
development, execution and monitoring of the Dutch National Action Plan
'Sexual Abuse of children'. human traffic,
human rights: redefining victim protection [PDF] Anti-Slavery
International -- Sources: Stichting Tegen Vrouwenhandel 'Foundation
against Trafficking in Women' (STV), and other sources [accessed 4 July 2013] [page 69] Katya and Anna - Two women, Katya and Anna
from Eastern Europe were trafficked to the UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report/50363/southern-africa-south-africa-regional-centre-for-human-trafficking [accessed 9 March
2015] Upon arrival, as
the IOM discovered in the Humans for www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040209/OPINION03/302099988&cid=sitesearch [accessed 31 August
2014] Sasha, a single mom
in her late 20s, struggled to make ends meet. Tired of working low-wage,
dead-end jobs in the Czech Republic, she impulsively accepted a
"friend's" offer for a better job in the Netherlands. She left her daughter with family, with the
intention of mailing money home and eventually returning. But when Sasha
arrived in Amsterdam, she was told to work in the "Red Light"
district, where men window-shop for prostitutes. "She was told that if she did not
work, her daughter would be killed back home," said John R. Miller,
director of the U.S. Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
"She was also told that if she worked hard, if she saw 15 men a night
instead of the usual 10, she would be reunited with her daughter sooner." US Foreign Policy
and its Impact on Women: International Trafficking in Women [DOC] Citizens Education
Committee, The League of Women Voters of www.docstoc.com/docs/70374342/Memo---Trafficking-in-Women-Forum-2-05 [accessed 4 July 2013] [LINK] [accessed 4 May
2020] THE HUMAN IMPACT OF
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS KATYA - Katya, with a
2-year-old daughter and a failing marriage in the KHAN - Traffickers
took Khan, an 11-year-old girl living in the hills of Joint NGO Statement on the draft European
Convention against Trafficking in Human Beings [PDF] Amnesty
International, 1 November 2004 old.antislavery.org/archive/press/Joint%20NGO%20Statement.final%20list.pdf [accessed 4 February
2016] www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/96000/ior610202004en.pdf [accessed 7 February
2018] 3. We welcome the
recognition by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers that there is a
need to develop additional standards which improve the protection of the
rights of trafficked persons. We therefore welcome the Committee of
Minister’s mandate to the Ad Hoc Committee on Action against Trafficking
(CAHTEH) to draft a European Convention against Trafficking in Human Beings
which designs a comprehensive, gender-sensitive framework for the protection
of the human rights of trafficked persons focusing on prevention,
investigation, prosecution and international cooperation. 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] At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9
September 2011] biblio.ugent.be/publication/216832 [accessed 28 May
2017] [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. CULTURE: Activities The Convention on the
Rights of the Child At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 9
September 2011] 2. HOW IS SEX
DISCRIMINATION EXPRESSED? - EXAMPLE 3 - The Council of Europe began collecting
data in the late 1980s and, in a submission to the Council in 1988, it was
estimated that some 5,000 boys and 3,000 girls were working in the streets of
Paris alone, although this estimate was later queried. The non-governmental organisation Defence of the
Child International has cited 1,000 children working as prostitutes in the [Source: World
Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children] Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2009 UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 30 January 2009 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/804bb175b68baaf7c125667f004cb333/ff3125626295ffa0c125755b00427501?OpenDocument [accessed 23
February 2011] 24. The Committee
is concerned that the State party’s legislation does not criminalise
the production or dissemination of materials advertising the sale of
children, child prostitution or child pornography, but notes information from
the State party that it is currently working to decide whether supplementary
legislation is desirable to ban such advertisement. 26. The Committee
is concerned that a number of cases of illegal adoptions have been reported
recently, and that improperly inducing consent in cases of adoption is not
covered by the penal legislation. 28. The Committee
welcomes that the State party provides permanent residency permits to child
victims of sale and trafficking and that it will only repatriate victims if,
after investigation, it is determined to be in their best interests. However,
the Committee is concerned about the reception, supervision and provision of
care to child victims of offences prohibited under the Optional Protocol. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61666.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Trafficking within the country was also a problem. Of the 405 trafficking
victims registered in 2004, 51 were living in the country at the time they
were seduced into prostitution by so-called lover boys, primarily young
Moroccan or Turkish men and boys. The victims were young, mostly immigrant
women. In January the government set up the national expertise center for
youth prostitution to collect figures, background information, and the best
practices in fighting youth prostitution and lover boys. Various
organizations and local governments initiated specific assistance and
prevention programs for potential victims of "lover boys." Most traffickers
used threats of violence to the victim, or to the victim's family, to control
their victims. Underage girls and young women of Moroccan and Turkish descent
(mostly lover boy victims), underage asylum seekers, women with a dependent
residence status (pseudo marriage), and women recruited in Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2004 UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 30 January 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/netherlands2004.html [accessed 23
February 2011] [56] The Committee
welcomes the State party’s efforts in the All
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