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Belgium gives sex workers same employment rights

Belgium gives sex workers the same employment rights as other workers

Consensual prostitution was already decriminalized in the European country but until now it existed under a legal gray area.

CNN · 1h

Sex workers in Belgium now have maternity leave and sick pay in world first for employment rights

Sex workers in Belgium are now entitled to formal employment contracts, which include sick pay and maternity leave, under a landmark law that went into effect Sunday.

New York Post on MSN · 20h

Belgium grants sex workers maternity pay, pensions under historic new law: ‘An incredible step forward’

I had to work while I was nine months pregnant. I was having sex with clients one week before giving birth,” said a Belgium sex worker named Sophie, lamenting conditions before the

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BBC on MSN · 4h

Belgium ordered to pay reparations for colonial kidnappings

A Belgium court has ordered the government to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly removed from their families in the colonial-era Belgian Congo. The women, now in their 70s, were taken from their mothers when they were young children and placed in orphanages under a state policy.

Politico Europe · 1h

Court finds Belgium guilty of ‘crimes against humanity’ for kidnapping children in colonial Congo

Five mixed-race women sued the Belgian state for taking them away from their families in racially motivated abductions.

The Financial Times · 3h

Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo

Belgium has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the kidnapping of mixed-race children in the Congo, the first time the country is held accountable for its actions as a colonial power.

devdiscourse1h

Justice for the Forgotten: Belgium's Colonial Reckoning

A Brussels appeals court identified Belgium's colonial actions as a crime against humanity in a case involving five ...

NL Times2h

Dutch men convicted in man’s drowning death after festival in Ghent, Belgium

Two Dutch men convicted for their role in a drowning death at an event in Ghent, Belgium were sentenced to prison on Monday.

Noozhawk17h

Mark Patton: Paradise Isn’t Lost On UCSB’s New Basketball Point Guard From Belgium

Stephan Swenson didn’t get a good first look at paradise. The azure of UC Santa Barbara’s seaside campus was cloaked in a heavy, gray mist last April when ...

RTE Online1h

Belgium held accountable for colonial abduction of mixed-race children

The Brussels Court of Appeal has held the state accountable for the systematic abduction of "metis" children, those of mixed ...

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