Countries: Belgium
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

According to the U.S. State Department's 2023 TIP report, Belgium ranks as a Tier 1 country (85). The report noted that while the government meets the minimum standards, it investigated and prosecuted fewer suspected trafficking cases, and 56 percent of the sentences issued to convicted traffickers were fully or partially suspended. The government also imposed several conditions limiting victims’ access to services. This suggest that enforcement is becoming more lax (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Belgium
Variables: DV-DATA-1

According to 2022 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls (aged 15-49) in Belgium who have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in their lifetime is 22 percent (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkmenistan
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1

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Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: DACH-SCALE-2

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Countries: Belgium
Variables: MMR-DATA-1

According to a 2023 report on global trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020 published by the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and UNDESA/Population Division, in 2020 the maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) in Belgium was 5 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Belgium
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to the World Bank, as of 2021, life expectancy in Belgium is 84 years for women and 80 years for men (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam
Variables: BR-SCALE-1

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Countries: Belgium
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"Women who were first married by age 18 (% of women ages 20-24) is '0%'"

Countries: Belgium
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"'This is a crucial leap forward. We are finally giving sex workers what they are entitled to: recognition and protection. Something they have been asking for decades,' Minister of Justice Vincent van Quickenborne said in a statement to The Brussels Times" (Para. 1). "According to Van Quickenborne, this will make it easier to act against human trafficking and sexual exploitation" (Para. 6).

Countries: Belgium
Variables: MARR-LAW-7

"Third-degree marriage with family members (parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts) is also excluded."

Countries: Belgium
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8

"[According to the Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers] you cannot always get married if your partner is family. You cannot get married with your brother or sister, cousin, uncle or aunt [in Belgium]" (para 5). It appears that socially, consanguineous marriage is unacceptable, and civil code states "third degree marriage with family members (parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts) is also excluded" as a requirement to be married (VC CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Belgium
Variables: IAD-PRACTICE-1

"The Committee notes with concern that...The amendments introduced in 2017 in the legislation on inheritance could have a negative impact on women and girls. The Committee recommends that the State party:...Monitor and take all necessary measures to ensure that the new law amending the Civil Code with regard to inheritance and gifts, and amending various other provisions in this matter, does not negatively affect women and girls" (16-17).

Countries: Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia
Variables: LRCM-PRACTICE-2

“...consensual Incestuous Families have for long, favored these countries as places to meet up with others who practice the same” (under the heading: Permissive Governments and Havens for Consensual Incest).

Countries: Belgium
Variables: LO-PRACTICE-1

"[T]he percentage of granting credit is 88% for female entrepreneurs while it is 92% for male entrepreneurs. Women therefore experience a higher rate of refusal of bank credit than men. Converted into a refusal rate, this represents 12% refusal of bank credit for women and 8% for men…[A]nother significant difference between the two sexes is noted: the amounts requested and granted are generally lower for women compared to men" (para 8-10).

Countries: Belgium
Variables: LO-LAW-1

"There is no legal discrimination against women’s legal rights to be recognised as the head of household, to be the legal guardians of their children or to choose where to live. The Civil Code grants equal responsibilities to married couples regarding the expenses of marriage and the administration of marital properties(art. 221 & 215)...Married women have the same rights as married men to administer marital properties (Civil Code, art. 215)." (3, 7).