MPs want tough action on trafficking

MPs have called for a tougher approach to combating forced prostitution after detectives told the Volkskrant that some 75% of window prostitutes in the Netherlands are the victims of human trafficking.


The paper spent six weeks with vice squad detectives investigating human smuggling gangs. The Netherlands legalised brothels in 2000.

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