Eunice Osayande

Eunice Nancy Osayande was a Nigerian woman who was trafficked to Belgium for prostitution and was murdered in Brussels in June 2018 when she was 23 years old. A street in Brussels was named after her in 2023.

Life in Belgium Osayande was trafficked to Belgium in 2016 after being led to believe she would be able to find acting work in the country. On the journey to Europe, which involved crossing the Mediterranean Sea in a rubber dinghy, she was repeatedly raped. Once in Belgium, she was forced into prostitution and told she owed her traffickers €45,000 (£38,000; $52,000). She worked in a window on the / near Brussels-North railway station. In 2018, she contacted a charity for sex workers because she was experiencing violence and intimidation and was afraid to go to the police as she was an undocumented migrant. On 14 June, about 150 people, including about 40 Nigerian prostitutes, took part in a silent march. They called for better police protection and rights for the sector. The judges sentenced S.G. to 25 years imprisonment, describing his actions as senseless and an "intolerable violation of respect for human life".

In January 2021, four people involved in the trafficking of Osayande were sentenced to up to four years imprisonment.