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Trafficking in persons in Belize disproportionately affects women, who are mainly trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation; particularly women and girl children from the neighbouring countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras who are forced into dancing and offering sexual services in bars. Information was provided on the increasing number of bars offering exotic dancing in border communities in the southern and northern parts of Belize, and the increasing number of women believed to be brought from El Salvador and Honduras to work informally as prostitutes.

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Afterward, Erik Khachatryan and other PoWs Narek Sirunyan, Karen Babayan, Arayik Galstyan, Robert Vardanyan, are forced to kneel and clap, as their captors are “celebrating” and dancing. (https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2d277as5wyrp58/Geriner%20%2C%2CEriki%2C%2C%20x umb_par.MP4?

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The children trafficked across borders are exploited in street-vending, domestic labour, agriculture, dancing, as waiters/waitresses, or they provide sexual services.

Although bars, nightclubs and so-called “table dance” clubs (with nude dancers or pole dancing) are now subject to increased police supervision, minors can still be found working in some of them.

For example, women from Andean communities tend to be presented as being dirty, ignorant, violent and rude. 43 Women of African descent are invariably portrayed as being slender, young and tall and capable only of dancing or playing sports. 59. The issue of gender equality is almost completely ignored by the written press, radio and television, constituting only 0.5 per cent of coverage.

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