TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS IN BELIZE - OAS

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The prevention programs and educative actions should respect the beliefs and the cultural diversity of the different communities. It is then very important to identify the community leaders so as to achieve the highest participation and integration to this initiative. 4. Recommendations in the area of victim protection and assistance. 4.1 Victims and witnesses protection. The Department of Human Services must have shelters and safety houses for those possible victims of human trafficking that are waiting for a Police or justice investigation. 4.2 Prevention of prostitution and exploitation. The Department of Human Services will set up educative programs for women involved in prostitution. These programs should offer alternatives to the activity they are performing at the moment, displaying cultural, informative and labor elements. These actions have preventive effects as well because women who have been forced and deceived into prostitution should find- in these educative environments- someone to trust in that could help them to escape from their situation. 4.3 Labor Inspection. Labor conditions should coincide with the country’s legislation and international agreements. In order to check this, the Labor Department needs to increase its human resources, fundamentally in the area of banana, citrus and sugar cane plantations, construction and tourism (hotels, nightclubs, lounges, etc.). Officers should not only be motivated to perform their task, but they should also have frequent training courses in order to detect exploitation and abuse situations that could be linked to human trafficking. When inspectors could be at risk because the area is a difficult one or because the owners of the working places don’t agree with inspections, it is recommended to involve Police officers. 72
4.4 Reports. A telephonic service should be created so as to offer every citizen a way to report, for free, any exploitation or abuse situation. Situations that could be related to human trafficking. 4.5 Helplines. Advice lines should also be installed in order to offer help and guidelines to those people whose rights are being violated. Although these services are not specifically focused on human trafficking victims, they should target on those preliminary stages that could lead to it. People should be able to use these lines to report any abuse against women inside and outside their homes and violence against children or any situation that affects their wellbeing. 4.6. Permanent training and shared experiences. The Task Force should create a training agenda that should permanently update migration and Police officers as well as members of every social services related to the matter. This agenda should include workshops, case analysis and sharing of experiences. These meetings should be held, at least, once every six months so as to ensure the continuity and depth of the process. Experts and members from specialized institutions and from countries of the region should be invited in order to keep up with the strategies each one of them draws up to face these situations and to maintain solid institutional links with them. 4.7 Sugar daddies. The fight against a risky institution as “sugar daddies” should be faced in an open way by the government and the educational system. A national commission that should be integrated mainly by educators should analyze this phenomenon and its social, cultural, affective and institutional consequences. This commission would design ways to discuss this matter on school books so as to ensure that the pupils receive wide information that should enable them to take well balanced decisions without accepting economic or emotional pressures. Sugar daddies should be addressed openly in public campaigns in order to increase the social awareness of the matter and make families understand that it is a risky practice. 73
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