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FEATURED ARTICLE *** 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. - htsccp *** ARCHIVES
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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 [DOC] 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. - htsccp 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 web.amnesty.org/report2004/bih-summary-eng 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
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