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Belgian sex work groups are cheering the new law. But it could come with some downsides.

Court said five women were victims of ‘systematic kidnapping’ by state over forced removal from mothers as small children

A Brussels appeals court has ruled that the Belgian state committed a crime against humanity in the case of five mixed-race women in Cmgo who were taken away from their Black mothers in infancy

Belgium’s Court of Appeals on Monday ordered the government to pay compensation to five Congolese women who were forcibly separated from their mothers during colonial rule. The court ruled that the abductions, which happened over 70 years ago, amounted to crimes against humanity.