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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.

It was alleged that sometime in September or October of 2002 a bomb had been thrown at a house in Paghman where a wedding party with music and dancing was taking place. According to local law enforcement officials the incident was under investigation but no suspects had been identified. Other sources claimed that one of the local leaders of Paghman had been behind this attack as he had banned dancing and music and warned of dire consequences if anyone violated his orders; − During her visit to Kandahar, when the Special Rapporteur interviewed internally displaced persons from the North (mainly from Faryab Province), she was informed that these people - mainly ethnic Pashtoons - had allegedly left their area of origin as their local tribal leaders had been summarily executed by local militia.

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