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Country, and Years Missing U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The prostitution and trafficking of girls to, from, and within the
country continues to be a problem. Reports indicate that there are growing numbers
of minors, primarily girls ages 14 to 18 years, who
are trafficked from less economically developed Eastern Bosnia to more
economically developed Western Bosnia and externally to Eastern and Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS - The
country was a destination, transit point, and, to a lesser extent, country of
origin for women, girls, and, in a few cases, teenage boys trafficked for
sexual exploitation. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, BiH
(3 June 2005) [69] While the Committee welcomes
some positive developments in the prosecution of those responsible for
serious crimes against women and girls in the context of trafficking and
forced prostitution, as well as the adoption by the Council of Ministers of a
National Plan of Action to combat trafficking in 2001, it is concerned that a
growing number of children under 18, especially adolescents girls, are still
being trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Research
on Child Trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY - The
findings of the research confirm that a considerable number of children have been
trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation in BiH
over the past three years. Based on the responses given by the police, NGOs
(non-governmental organizations) and IOM (International Organization for
Migration), between 110 and 160 children have been identified as trafficked
for the purposes of sexual exploitation in BiH
between 1999 and early 2003. The majority of the victims are over the age of
14; a few are as young as 10. Child Sex
Trafficking Study By CU-Boulder Sociologist Reveals Misperceptions The UNICEF study of
Bosnia-Herzegovina found a system that included combinations of voluntary
prostitution, various forms of indentured servitude, and outright slave
captivity. "Very often it's not organized criminals but close relatives
or family friends who encourage girls in poverty-stricken families to seek
work abroad as an 'au pair or waitress.' These acquaintances know full well
that the girl will be put to work as a prostitute and that they will directly
profit from the referral. Trafficking
of women & girls to post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina for forced
prostitution EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY - The interviews
and transcripts revealed with few exceptions that traffickers, most of them
local Bosnians, needed harbor little fear of criminal prosecution or
punishment for their crimes: trafficking laws went largely un-enforced,
providing no protection for the victims of these serious human rights abuses.
Corruption within the Bosnian police force allowed the trafficking of women
and girls to flourish. Local police officers facilitated trafficking both
directly and indirectly-as part owners of nightclubs and bars holding
trafficked women, as guards and employees in those establishments, as clients
of the brothels, and as informants to brothel owners. Trafficked women and
girls reported that brothel owners forced them to provide free sexual
services to police, particularly to officers employed in the foreigners'
department, the unit responsible for issuing work and residency permits. Amnesty International Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2004 TRAFFICKING
IN WOMEN AND GIRLS -
Some positive developments were noted in the prosecution of those responsible
for serious human rights abuses against women and girls in the context of
trafficking and forced prostitution. In March the owner of a local nightclub
was found guilty of enslavement and sentenced. The case marked the first
conviction in the Federation for enslavement; those tried in trafficking
cases had previously always been charged with the lesser offence of
procurement. In May, five Bosnian Serb men were handed over to the custody of
the State Court, which started an investigation into their alleged
involvement in the trafficking of women and girls who had been forced to
engage in prostitution in a chain of nightclubs in Prijedor. 33 Victims
of Human Trafficking Aided by UN Mission According to the Factbook
on Global Sexual Exploitation Italian NATO peacekeeping soldiers
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