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Trends and Policies on Women Trafficking in the Netherlands |
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by Damián Zaitch and Richard Staring
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Most women working in the Netherlands as prostitutes, particularly in the middle and cheaper market sections, are foreigners. While many can be considered free sex workers or entrepreneurs, others are, according to the Dutch legislation and UN definition, victims of ‘trafficking in human beings’ (THB) since they experience some form of coercion with the aim of exploitation. Since 2000, several developments have taken place in the Netherlands in order to tackle the problem of women trafficking, both at national and local level.
This article will first sketch the nature and extent of prostitution and women trafficking in the Netherlands, to then present and critically analyze the existing legislation, policies and concrete interventions concerning forced prostitution and women trafficking.1 |
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Arrests in trafficking campaign |
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by OICJ Staff
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 A national police campaign against sex trafficking has led to the arrest of 41 people in Cambridgeshire over the past 10 months.
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All-out bid to emancipate nation's sex slaves |
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by OICJ Staff
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 GOVERNMENT, police and welfare agencies are joining forces in an unprecedented bid to expose and eliminate Australia's sex slave trade.
Representatives of more than 20 organisations and government departments met to discuss ways to combat the trade in human lives at a summit in Canberra two weeks ago. And the Federal Government has committed $20million a year to halt the practice as well as doubling the Australian Federal Police's sex trafficking department's budget.
Authorities have identified more than 100 women as sex slaves, imported into Australia to work as prostitutes, since 2004. They often have their passports seized by brothel owners and must work to pay off so-called "debts", as high as $45,000, for the opportunity to work in Australia.
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