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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Republic of Hungary [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The Hungary is primarily a
transit, and to a lesser extent a source and destination country for women
from Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, the Balkans, and China
trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation to Austria,
Slovenia, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, France, and the United
States. Hungarian women are trafficked primarily to Western and Northern
Europe and to North America. - U.S. State
Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2007 [full
country report] |
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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs GOVERNMENT
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The Government of Hungary is working with IOM and partner
agencies to implement a trafficking prevention program in schools. Through consultations with NGOs, the
government has also provided anti-trafficking sensitization training to
police, border guards, and consular officials. In 2003, the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees, in conjunction with the Government of Hungary, established a
shelter for unaccompanied minors in order to prevent them from being
recruited by traffickers. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS –
Organized crime syndicates transported many of the trafficking victims for
forced prostitution either in Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 1998 [22] The Committee is concerned
about the insufficiency of legal and other measures to address the issue of
sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution and trafficking
of children. Underage prostitution arrests1 Police in Szabolcs-Szatmár county
have arrested three men who abducted two girls and forced them into
prostitution. The girls - aged 14 and
15 - were forced into a car in the eastern town of Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide Stop
Violence Against Women – Country Page U.S. Library of Congress
- Country Study ARCHIVES 2004 TRAINING - A Critical Moment In Hungary’s
Development 2003 Trafficking in Human Beings in Hungary 2002 Response to trafficking is poor with uneven enforcement of anti-trafficking legislation 2001 Preying on Children - Number of kids trafficked into virtual slavery in 2001 Methods
and Techniques of Traffickers – Ukrainian criminals reportedly
control 2000 Picked at random by a mafia gang looking for girls at the
station to force into prostitution 1. The linked
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