Laws that tend to be enforced, at least to some degree, are those prohibiting human trafficking, child prostitution and soliciting outside unofficially tolerated areas.
[2][3] During World War II, American soldiers were stationed in Suriname to protect the vital bauxite industry and to build an airbase at Zanderij which is nowadays called Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport.
[8] In the capital Paramaribo, the red-light district is located in the area of Watermolenstraat, Timmermanstraat, Hoek Hogestraat, Zwartenhovenbrugstraat and Crommelinstraat.
[10] There are many foreign women who come to work in the gold fields (Brazilians, Dominicans, Guyanese and French) as well as native Surinamese prostitutes.
This arrangement is usually made through a mining foreman who recruits and pays women from Brazil in return for 10% of the miner's wages.
[12] Suriname is principally a destination and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked transnationally for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor.
It is also a source country for underage Surinamese girls, and increasingly boys, trafficked internally for sexual exploitation.