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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child Sex Trafficking Study By CU-Boulder Sociologist
Reveals Misperceptions dirwww.colorado.edu/news/r/7e44f6528ca6257ecb5962e553ca32fb.html [accessed 19 April 2012] 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 *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/bosnia-herzegovina.htm [accessed 23 January 2011] 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 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/2005/61640.htm [accessed 23 January 2011] 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 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 June 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/bosnia2005.html [accessed 23 January 2011] [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 UNICEF
BiH and Save the Children www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/unicef_research_on_child_trafficking_in_bosnia_and_herzegovina_10.pdf [accessed 7 April 2011] 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 dirwww.colorado.edu/news/r/7e44f6528ca6257ecb5962e553ca32fb.html [accessed 19 April 2012] 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 Human
Rights Watch Report, Volume 14 No. 9 (D), November 2002 www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2002/bosnia/Bosnia1102-01.htm#P164_4470 [accessed 7 April 2011] 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 2004 - Amnesty
International, 26 May 2004 www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,AMNESTY,ANNUALREPORT,BIH,,40b5a1ee14,0.html [accessed 7 April 2011] 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 BRAMA,
November 16, 2000 www.brama.com/news/press/001116trafficking.html [accessed 7 April 2011] According to the Factbook on
Global Sexual Exploitation - The
Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation, Donna M.
Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn, Vanessa Chirgwin,
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, 1999 www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/bosnia.htm [accessed 7 April 2011] Italian NATO peacekeeping soldiers
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