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Annual Report on Human Rights, Belgium. Chapter III: Trafficking in Human Beings

Document number
1433
Date
2008
Title
Annual Report on Human Rights, Belgium. Chapter III: Trafficking in Human Beings
Author/publisher
Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International (HRWF)
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Summary
The report states that on a scale ranging from very low to very high, Belgium was listed as a country with a high incidence of reporting as a transit country, and a very high incidence of reporting as a destination country forhuman trafficking in the 2006 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report, indicating the global patterns on trafficking in human beings.People are trafficked to Belgium primarily from countries such as Nigeria , Brazil , Albania , Bulgaria , Romania and China . Most people only passing through Belgium are usually on their way to the United Kingdom .Research indicates that people are primarily trafficked to Belgium for purposes of forced labour and commercialsexual exploitation, with the latter being more prevalent than the former.However, there are indications that human trafficking for purposes of economic exploitation is starkly on the rise,at least in the Flemish Region. The stark rise in 2006 of this particular type of human trafficking was almost solely due to the significant increase in the number of Brazilian men being exploited in construction business.
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