TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS IN BELIZE - OAS

4.8 Sexual education. A Sexual Education Program should be
included in the national scholar curriculum. It should include the
last educational news on the matter and it should avoid violating
the right that each parent has to educate their own children.
5.- Recommendations in the legislative-judicial area
5.1 Resources for the civil society. Laws should be passed in order
to allow public fund transferences to the private sector that will
undertake social and educative programs. This partnership
between public and private areas will allow joint efforts in high
risk areas. Legislation should also address the evaluation of the
obtained results by the organizations that received the mentioned
funds.
The number of persons each organization is in charge of, the
methods they choose to work with and the seriousness of the
matter they are working on, should be factors to take into account
when the amount of funds is assigned to each institution. In that
way, those organizations that work in more risky and complex
areas are rewarded. They have to work with abandonment,
juvenile crime, prostitution involving children and areas affected
by poverty and deprivation.
5.2 Legalization Sexual exploitation shall stay as a crime, but
prostitution won’ t. To legalize prostitution means to regulate its
practice by adults and strictly control sexual workers so as to
avoid any kind of abuse from the owners of nightclubs and hotels.
5.3 Protection and assistance. Laws that determine the arrest of
illegal immigrants should be changed. Repatriation through
international agreements should be implemented and social
assistance should be provided while on Belize’s soil.
5.4 Research. Every case of illegal migration arrest must be
quickly communicated to the Office of Judicial Prosecution in
order to ensure that evidence of probable human trafficking
doesn’t disappear when the migrant is repatriated.
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