Government officials in the Netherlands reported that the legalized trade of drugs and prostitution in Amsterdam and across the country…
The self proclaimed top drug dealer on the online black market website Silk Road plead guilty in US federal court…
In 2013, criminal justice programs in the Netherlands investigated 175 cases of human smuggling across the country. The number of…
According to research by Dutch firm GfK, only 10 percent of all ebooks on devices were actually paid for, with…
In an interview with the Guardian Newspaper, a prostitution customer in the red light district of Amsterdam stated that he…
In the first six months of 2013, bank officials in the Netherlands seized 19,400 counterfeit euro banknotes from circulation. The…
Official city records in Amsterdam show that there are between 6,000 to 8,000 prostitutes working in the city. Anti-human trafficking…
An anti-trafficking organization reported that three out of four prostitutes working in the red light district of Amsterdam were from economically distressed communities. Not-for-Sale stated at a conference on women’s rights that 75 percent of the women came from poor communities in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
The Justice Ministry of Brazil reported that it has found around 500 people who have been victims of human trafficking between 2005 and 2012.
At the end of 2011, there were 223 coffee shops in the city of Amsterdam selling marijuana. About 1 million foreign tourists visit the shops annually. A new law passed at the end of 2011 made it illegal for tourists to purchase marijuana at the coffee shops beginning in 2012.