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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century 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/report/freedom-world/2009/netherlands [accessed 27 June 2012] 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.worldrevolution.org/news/article1773.htm [accessed 20 April 2012] 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 Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children] All
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