Santo Domingo.– Some 5,000 Dominican and Brazilian women work as prostitutes in Suriname, where both are ill-treated and exploited, according to the results of an investigation presented Thursday in this capital.

According to a report by Spanish news agency EFE, Dominican and Brazilian women represent virtually 100 percent of the sex workers in Suriname, a country of some 223,000 inhabitants.

The "Trinational Investigation into the Treatment and Trafficking of Women" and COIN research institute revealed that between 3,000 and 4,000 Dominican women are forced to engage in prostitution in Suriname in largely clandestine transactions in which they are maltreated, raped and sometimes even disappear for good.

The researchers found that prostitutes from Brazil "suffer the constant violation of their human rights."

Marcel Hazeu, a representative of the Brazilian organization Sodireitos, which participated in the study, said that although her countrywomen have in common with the Dominicans the need to escape from poverty and support their families, "the Dominicans have a greater awareness of the exploitation to which they are subjected."

"The Brazilians don't organize themselves to resist, but the Dominicans realize that they are exploited and subjected to violence, although they don't have a community or a consulate" in Suriname, she added.

There does exist a Brazilian consulate in the small country. Hazeu said that "the big lie of the (sex) traders (i.e. pimps) is to feed in Dominican and Brazilian women great expectations, which they never fulfill," since –she said– "economic earnings are scarce" for both.

The great illusion of the prostitutes is, she added, that they may be able to marry a rich Surinamese man, "it doesn't matter if he's a drug trafficker, a politician or a man with four wives living in different houses which he throws out when he gets tired of them."

COIN said in the study that the Dominicans usually work in clandestine locations, "much more hidden and dangerous than the Brazilians," and it added that some Dominicans have disappeared in Suriname but those cases have not been investigated by the authorities.

The heads of COIN, Santo Rosario and Francisca Ferreiras, asked the governments of the Dominican Republic, Brazil and Suriname to establish policies and programs to protect the rights of the women who are victims of the sex trade.

Rosario said that some women gravitate to prostitution because of poverty and the inequality of the sexes and she complained that the immigration laws, approved to combat the crime of people selling and trafficking, "make the problem clandestine and invisible and make it so that the women suffer more."

This reality, Rosario said, "demands the establishment of policies of labor integration and the authorization of microloans so that poor women can find work in conditions of equality in their society of origin."

Rosario also said that Suriname is a transit and destination country for the sex trade due to the economic flows generated by its mines and casinos and because some women can cross the border to French Guiana or emigrate to France, Martinique or Guadeloupe.

According to data compiled by local organizations, more than 200,000 Dominican women work as prostitutes outside their homeland.

http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/poverty/2008/5/11/27942/Nearly-4000-Dominican-women-are-prostitutes-in-Suriname

Have you been shopping lately?...They are selling lives at the mall...you should get one.

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Santo Domingo.– Some 5,000 Dominican and Brazilian women work as prostitutes in Suriname, where both are ill-treated and exploited, according to the results of an investigation presented Thursday in this capital.

According to a report by Spanish news agency EFE, Dominican and Brazilian women represent virtually 100 percent of the sex workers in Suriname, a country of some 223,000 inhabitants.

The "Trinational Investigation into the Treatment and Trafficking of Women" and COIN research institute revealed that between 3,000 and 4,000 Dominican women are forced to engage in prostitution in Suriname in largely clandestine transactions in which they are maltreated, raped and sometimes even disappear for good.

The researchers found that prostitutes from Brazil "suffer the constant violation of their human rights."

Marcel Hazeu, a representative of the Brazilian organization Sodireitos, which participated in the study, said that although her countrywomen have in common with the Dominicans the need to escape from poverty and support their families, "the Dominicans have a greater awareness of the exploitation to which they are subjected."

"The Brazilians don't organize themselves to resist, but the Dominicans realize that they are exploited and subjected to violence, although they don't have a community or a consulate" in Suriname, she added.

There does exist a Brazilian consulate in the small country. Hazeu said that "the big lie of the (sex) traders (i.e. pimps) is to feed in Dominican and Brazilian women great expectations, which they never fulfill," since –she said– "economic earnings are scarce" for both.

The great illusion of the prostitutes is, she added, that they may be able to marry a rich Surinamese man, "it doesn't matter if he's a drug trafficker, a politician or a man with four wives living in different houses which he throws out when he gets tired of them."

COIN said in the study that the Dominicans usually work in clandestine locations, "much more hidden and dangerous than the Brazilians," and it added that some Dominicans have disappeared in Suriname but those cases have not been investigated by the authorities.

The heads of COIN, Santo Rosario and Francisca Ferreiras, asked the governments of the Dominican Republic, Brazil and Suriname to establish policies and programs to protect the rights of the women who are victims of the sex trade.

Rosario said that some women gravitate to prostitution because of poverty and the inequality of the sexes and she complained that the immigration laws, approved to combat the crime of people selling and trafficking, "make the problem clandestine and invisible and make it so that the women suffer more."

This reality, Rosario said, "demands the establishment of policies of labor integration and the authorization of microloans so that poor women can find work in conditions of equality in their society of origin."

Rosario also said that Suriname is a transit and destination country for the sex trade due to the economic flows generated by its mines and casinos and because some women can cross the border to French Guiana or emigrate to France, Martinique or Guadeloupe.

According to data compiled by local organizations, more than 200,000 Dominican women work as prostitutes outside their homeland.

http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/poverty/2008/5/11/27942/Nearly-4000-Dominican-women-are-prostitutes-in-Suriname

Gizmo And how badly you lust for those Dominican ladies of the night Zanzave? Sorry those ugly Haitian woman can't prostitute themselves, they just don't qualify Jean! Stick to playing pinball without the payoff.

this is old news, sad but true....

Gizmo did you forgot that all Dominican girls are craving Haitians hahaha that what someone told me the other day i won't say his name because then i will get call the usual Racist,anti-haitianismo and all those pretty names they have created. So they don't have to pay for sex from dominican girls they are being chased around everywhere by them ahahahahaha eta gente no se cansan de ablal baba

Es increible toda la sica que pueden acumular en un dia. Si les pagaran por eso, los muy zoquetes serian mas ricos que Bill Gates o Carlos Slim, si algo asi fuere posible.

Y este sujeto estupido faltandole respeto a la mujer dominicana? Que demonios le importa a el si la mujer dominicana se protituye o no, ese no es problema e el. Este sujeto se debe enfocar en todas las muejres haitianas que paren como 9 muchacho uno atras del otro! Ese si es problema de el!

Y muy grande, sobre todo por el hecho de que ellas los paren en nuestros hospitales, y ya por eso las malditas ONG's quieren que nos hagamos cargo de ellos. ¿Qué bonito, no? Parece que el mensaje que se quiere mandar a los ilegales es: "goza todo lo que puedas, que el Estado dominicano es el que se hará cargo de los platos rotos".

Eso y mucho mas hacemos por ellos y como vez en este foro, mira como nos pagan!

la enbidia no mata pero mortifica.