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• Report says young refugees suffer abuse after arrival in Europe. UNHCR, 18 February 2008. A study conducted in Belgium and the Netherlands has found that young female and male refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants are extremely vulnerable to several types of gender-based violence.
  
• Belgium detains 16 for India-Britain trafficking. Reuters, 19 September 2007. Belgian prosecutors detained 16 people suspected of trafficking Indian illegal immigrants destined for Britain, the assistant prosecutor on the case said on Wednesday.
• Diplomats' fury at SA rape bungle. Independent Online, 16 September 2007. The French and Belgian governments are incensed at how the South African Police Services botched investigations into the rape of a French tourist and an attack on her Belgian boyfriend on the Durban beachfront in December last year.

• Female genital mutilation: Knowledge, attitudes and practices of Flemish gynaecologists. Leye E, Ysebaert I, Deblonde J, et al Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care. Jun;13(2):182-90. 2008