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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 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 [full country
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** LifeSiteNews, Ottawa/Amsterdam, Wed Oct 05,
2005 www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2005/oct/05100508 [accessed 23 February 2011] Policemen in 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 *** 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 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61666.htm [accessed 23 February 2011] 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) - 2009 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 30 January 2009 [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. 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 A tortuous tale of human trafficking Clare Short, [accessed 23 February 2011] 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] 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, tribes.tribe.net/humantrafficking/thread/eefb2135-e291-49f5-898d-552d3271f035 [accessed 23 February 2011] 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. LifeSiteNews, Ottawa/Amsterdam, Wed Oct 05,
2005 www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2005/oct/05100508 [accessed 23 February 2011] Policemen in 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 Tatiana's Story Stop Human Traffic, Anti-Slavery International At one time this article had been archived and may possibly
still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9 September 2011] PROSTITUTION - UKRAINE TO HOLLAND - Like most victims of
trafficking, Tatiana's reason for traveling abroad was to support her family.
Through an agent in Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil
Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7671 [accessed 23 February 2011] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/-netherlands [accessed 23 February 2011] One in 12 children forced into world's 'worst forms' of
labor Agence France-Presse
AFP, www.aegis.com/news/afp/2005/AF050265.html [accessed 23 February 2011] 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-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 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9 September 2011] [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.aspx?reportid=50363 [accessed 23 February 2011] Upon arrival, as the IOM
discovered in the Humans for archive.capecodonline.com/special/hotspots/trafficking/trafficking.htm [accessed 11 December 2010] 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.lwvma.org/PresidentsMail/February2005/Memo
- Trafficking in Women Forum 2-05.doc [accessed 23 February 2011] 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 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9 September 2011] 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 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9 September 2011] 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
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