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03 Dec 2024 Netherlands 🇳🇱/ Belgium 🇧🇪
▫️Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo
The Belgian state has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of five mixed-race children from their mothers in colonial Congo.
In a long-awaited ruling issued on Monday, Belgium’s court of appeal said that five women, born in the Belgian Congo and now in their 70s, had been victims of “systematic kidnapping” by the state when they were removed from their mothers as small children and sent to Catholic institutions because of their mixed-race origins.
“This is a victory and a historic judgment,” Michèle Hirsch, one of the lawyers for the women, told local media. “It is the first time in Belgium and probably in Europe that a court has condemned the Belgian colonial state for crimes against humanity.”
» https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/02/belgium-found-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-in-colonial-congo
» https://stratnewsglobal.com/africa/court-holds-state-accountable-for-abducting-mixed-race-children-in-belgian-congo/
» https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2024/12/belgium-found-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-in-colonial-congo/
▫️Netherlands still doing too little to protect children from exploitation
The Netherlands must do more to protect children from exploitation, the Center against Child and Human Trafficking (CKM) said in a new report published on Tuesday. The research looked at all conversations with victims of human trafficking held between 2019 and 2023 on the anonymous chat platform of Fier, an expertise and treatment center in the field of violence in dependent relationships.
During that period, almost 600 minor victims of sexual or criminal exploitation reached out on the chat platform, the CKM reported. According to the center, that is over twice as many as the number of formally registered victims in that period. “The fact that this is not changing is unacceptable,” said Shamir Ceuleers, head of the CKM. “We cannot accept this as normal.” Many of the victims on the chat platform had been exploited for a year or more.
https://nltimes.nl/2024/12/03/netherlands-still-little-protect-children-exploitation
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03 Dec 2024 Netherlands 🇳🇱/ Belgium 🇧🇪
▫️Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo
The Belgian state has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of five mixed-race children from their mothers in colonial Congo.
In a long-awaited ruling issued on Monday, Belgium’s court of appeal said that five women, born in the Belgian Congo and now in their 70s, had been victims of “systematic kidnapping” by the state when they were removed from their mothers as small children and sent to Catholic institutions because of their mixed-race origins.
“This is a victory and a historic judgment,” Michèle Hirsch, one of the lawyers for the women, told local media. “It is the first time in Belgium and probably in Europe that a court has condemned the Belgian colonial state for crimes against humanity.”
» https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/02/belgium-found-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-in-colonial-congo
» https://stratnewsglobal.com/africa/court-holds-state-accountable-for-abducting-mixed-race-children-in-belgian-congo/
» https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2024/12/belgium-found-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-in-colonial-congo/
▫️Netherlands still doing too little to protect children from exploitation
The Netherlands must do more to protect children from exploitation, the Center against Child and Human Trafficking (CKM) said in a new report published on Tuesday. The research looked at all conversations with victims of human trafficking held between 2019 and 2023 on the anonymous chat platform of Fier, an expertise and treatment center in the field of violence in dependent relationships.
During that period, almost 600 minor victims of sexual or criminal exploitation reached out on the chat platform, the CKM reported. According to the center, that is over twice as many as the number of formally registered victims in that period. “The fact that this is not changing is unacceptable,” said Shamir Ceuleers, head of the CKM. “We cannot accept this as normal.” Many of the victims on the chat platform had been exploited for a year or more.
https://nltimes.nl/2024/12/03/netherlands-still-little-protect-children-exploitation
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Meldpunt kinderporno: https://www.eokm.nl/ | https://www.meldpunt-kinderporno.nl/hulpnodig/kind-in-gevaar/
Anonieme hulplijn: http://www.stopitnow.nl/ | https://www.helpwanted.nl/
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