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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
first ten years of the 21st Century -
2000 to 2009
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. -
U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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modern slave's brutal odyssey 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 *** Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 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) - 2004 [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 Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page A
modern slave's brutal odyssey 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. 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] www.seecran.org/news/seecranews/SEECRANews.09_IV.doc The contents of this article had
appeared under a different title and may possibly still be accessible [here]
At the
Meeting it was pointed out that Death
of sex worker in Bosnia puts region on red alert Popik worked as a prostitute in Bosnia
as well as in Slovenia and Serbia.
Her official cause of death was tuberculosis, complicated by syphilis,
hepatitis C and AIDS. 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 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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