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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Slovenia.htm
Slovenia is primarily a transit
country for men, women, and children trafficked from Ukraine, Moldova, Slovakia,
Romania, Bulgaria, the Dominican Republic, Thailand, and Iran through
Slovenia to Western Europe for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation
and forced labor. To a lesser extent, Slovenia is also a destination country
for men, women, and children trafficked from Ukraine, the Dominican Republic,
and Romania for forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation and a source
of women trafficked for the purpose of forced prostitution within Slovenia. -
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** A modern slave's brutal odyssey BBC News, 3 November 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3979725.stm [accessed 22 December 2010] EX-TRAFFICKER'S STORY - One former trafficker, now
working with the authorities and living at a secret address, told Slavery Today
how his former gang would operate.
"Most of the time we would use professional recruiters, but at
times we would kidnap women and children ourselves," he said. "The children were taken to be sold in
Italy, and the better-looking women were kept as prisoners and made to work
as prostitutes. "I have heard that sick
children are sold and made into beggars.
"The healthy ones are kept and trained to work for the Mafia, to
deal drugs, to murder - whatever they are capable of. Some trafficked people have their organs
removed. "I've also heard that
some children were sold for organs. This also happened with men and women,
depending on the demand." And he admitted to often using
force to capture people. "If they
didn't want to be separated from their families, we'd hit them until they did
what we wanted," he said.
"Generally threats are made that another family member will be
murdered if orders are not obeyed."
Working in Eastern Europe, the gang would drive trafficked men into Slovenia, from where they would be
transported, to look for work on places such as building sites. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61675.htm [accessed 22 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS –
Organized criminal groups, nightclub owners, and local pimps were primarily
responsible for trafficking. A 2003 study by the International Organization
for Migration reported that traffickers lured victims from Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 30 January 2004 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/4bc10061499e3b6bc1256e2e003da598?OpenDocument [accessed 22 December 2010] [34] While welcoming the new
Implementation of Fostering Activities Act of 2003, which provides for a more
systematic regulation of fostering activities, the Committee is concerned
that the mechanisms for reviewing and monitoring the placement of fostered
children are not sufficient. Furthermore, the Committee is concerned at the
lack of standards and regulations on adoption and of a national adoption
register. [62] While welcoming the measures
taken by the State party to combat and raise awareness of the problem of
trafficking in persons, including the establishment of the Interdepartmental
Working Group on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, the Committee is
concerned about reports that Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7702 [accessed 22 December 2010] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, 30 July 2010 [accessed 22 December 2010] A modern slave's brutal odyssey BBC News, 3 November 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3979725.stm [accessed 22 December 2010] EX-TRAFFICKER'S STORY - One former trafficker, now
working with the authorities and living at a secret address, told Slavery
Today how his former gang would operate.
"Most of the time we would use professional recruiters, but at
times we would kidnap women and children ourselves," he said. "The children were taken to be sold in
Italy, and the better-looking women were kept as prisoners and made to work
as prostitutes. "I have heard that sick children
are sold and made into beggars.
"The healthy ones are kept and trained to work for the Mafia, to
deal drugs, to murder - whatever they are capable of. Some trafficked people have their organs
removed. "I've also heard that
some children were sold for organs. This also happened with men and women,
depending on the demand." And he admitted to often using
force to capture people. "If they
didn't want to be separated from their families, we'd hit them until they did
what we wanted," he said.
"Generally threats are made that another family member will be
murdered if orders are not obeyed."
Working in Eastern Europe, the gang would drive trafficked men into Slovenia, from where they would be
transported, to look for work on places such as building sites. Smuggler's Prey [PDF] www.selfconnection.ca/Descriptions/9780143012597.pdf [accessed 19 December 2010] Every day, scores of young women throughout
the former East Bloc are lured by job offers that lead to a hellish journey
of sexual slavery and violence. Despite the barrage of warnings on radio and
TV, in newspapers and on billboards, desperate women continue to line up with
their naiveté and applications in hand, hoping that, this time, they might
just be in luck. The route from Serbia to Italy is
either overland—through Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia—or through the Albanian seaport towns of Vlorë and Durres, where women
cling to high-speed rubber dinghies charging across the Adriatic Ocean to the
Italian coast. SEECRANews 09 (IV) June 10, 2004 [DOC] South East European Child Rights Action Network SEECRAN,
June 10, 2004 www.seecran.org/news/seecranews/SEECRANews.09_IV.doc [accessed 22 December 2010] At the
Meeting it was pointed out that Slovenia represents the country of origin,
the country of final destination as well as the transit country in
international trafficking of human beings. NGO Kljuc
that was established in November 2001 is the first and the only NGO in
Slovenia whose fundamental goal is to help the victims of trafficking in
human beings in Slovenia. Before Kljuc was
established the fight against trafficking in human beings involved only the
prosecution bodies, while nobody paid attention to the victims. The main
current activities of Kljuc are the following:
provision of psycho-social help to the victims of trafficking, assistance
with the victims` returning to their domicile country, implementation of
advisory conversations on the 24-hour telephone line, encouraging the victims
to co-operate with the prosecution bodies, accommodation in a “safe house”
and crises intervention for the victims of trafficking. Death of sex worker in slo-bulletin.blogspot.com/2004/11/death-of-sex-worker-in-bosnia-puts.html [accessed 22 December 2010] Popik worked as a prostitute in The question now is, how many of
these men will now come down with any - or all - of the diseases she was
carrying? State and NGO to Tackle Human Trafficking Hand in Hand Vesna Žarkovič,
Government PR and Media Office, Slovenia News, ISSN 1581-4866, Issue #13,
March 31, 2004 slonews.sta.si/index.php?id=1352 [accessed 22 December 2010] Based on the agreement, victims of
human trafficking - especially non-Slovenian citizens - will be provided
assistance and the guarantee that they will be treated humanely and according
to legal standards. The document sets down the legal framework for the
victims' stay in Slovenia, giving them internationally comparable protection
and the chance to exert their rights. Cases related to organised
crime will be given special attention. All material used herein
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