Prostitution in Mozambique is legal and widely practiced, and the country also contains illegal brothels. The majority of the population remains below the poverty line , a situation which provides fertile soil for the development of prostitution. At the time of independence in , Mozambique was one of the poorest countries in the world. The position of residents worsened during the civil war years β In , prostitution in Mozambique had reached such proportions that the post of mediator was created between the military on the one hand and pimps and prostitutes on the other.
Human trafficking in Mozambique is a significant problem. Mozambique is a source country for people trafficked for forced prostitution. Research in indicated that Mozambican girls and young women between the ages of 14 and 24 were typically being recruited.
The main destination was South Africa , where they were put into sexual slavery and compelled to work in prostitution. It was estimated that around 1, women were being recruited, transported and exploited in this way each year. Women and girls from Zimbabwe and Malawi who voluntarily migrate to Mozambique are manipulated by traffickers into forced prostitution.
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