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Rampage Through Reality At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 15
September 2011] The police
discovered the group after one of the abused girls reported that she's been a
victim of human trafficking. According the preliminary reports, the girl R.A.
was forced twice into whoring with Greek citizens. In March this year, the
suspects M.A. and A.N. sold the girl to Sh.K. from Kichevo for 150 Euros. He and his unwed wife forced the
girl to serve them in their bar. The bosses sold the girl to the Ohrid resident D.B. for 100 Euros June 6, 2003. He also
forced the girl into prostitution in his bar "Persa." The same day, the
accused Sh.K. bought the 14-year old girl A.M.
(native of Prilep) from some man from Bitola,
paying 50 Euros. Sh.K. forced the girl to
prostitute herself. Several days afterward, D.B. bought the girl A.N., also
to force her to work as a servant and prostitute. Since she refused the
orders of her owners, she endured repeated raping between June 14 and June
17, 2003. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/north-macedonia/ [accessed 2
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits all forms of commercial sexual
exploitation of children, including the offer, sale, or procurement of children
for prostitution. The penalty for the commercial sexual exploitation of
children is 10 to 15 years in prison. The law prohibits child pornography and
provides penalties of five to 15 years in prison for violations. Authorities
enforced the law. The minimum age for consensual sex is 16. The country
follows the Convention on the Rights of the Child, under which any person
under the age of 18 is considered a child. Authorities
considered child commercial sexual exploitation a problem but did not know its
extent. The country had an online registry, searchable by name and address,
of convicted child traffickers and sex offenders that listed photographs,
conviction records, and residential addresses. Offenders could ask
authorities to remove them from the register 10 years after they completed
their sentence, provided they did not commit a new offense. According to the
registry, during the year there were six pedophiles serving prison sentences
of two to 20 years. 2018 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2019 www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2018/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 3
September 2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 901] The majority of
victims of child trafficking in North Macedonia are girls, between the ages
of 12 to 18, who have been trafficked domestically for commercial sexual exploitation
and forced labor in restaurants, bars, and nightclubs. (1,2,8,13,17)
Roma girls, especially, are also trafficked for forced marriages in which
they are subject to sexual and labor exploitation.
(1,2,8,13,14,18)Unaccompanied children from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria,
and other states continued to transit through the country, either legally or
illegally, and were vulnerable to trafficking for labor and commercial sexual
exploitation. (8,12,19,20) Five Years After
Stockholm [PDF] ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International,
November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13
September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Girl, 15, Sold to
Work as Slave In the Brothels of London Dominic Kennedy,
Reality At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 15
September 2011] A sex slave aged 15
can be bought for as little as £1,300 it emerged, after a Romanian girl who
had been prostituted across Natasha, age 15,
came to the notice of traffickers and soon she was forced to become a
“dancing girl” in a nightclub in the south of Macedonia, where, for six months, her duties included stripping
and having sex with clients. She
escaped this club when she was purchased, without her knowledge, by Jorgi, an Albanian pimp, for 4,000 German marks (£1,300). He forced her to
telephone saunas and massage parlours, finding the
numbers from the back pages of the magazine What’s On In London. He drove her
to and from work, pocketing the cash that she was paid. “I was working morning, afternoon and
evening. Sometimes I would get home at 7am and would have to start work again
at 11am,” Natasha said. “I hated all
the men I was working for. But if you didn’t do what they were saying they
would always get angry and hit you and swear at you.” After Jorgi hit her she would cover the bruising with make-up
and go to work again. –
htcp 0wned by
prem7pun!sher Irina Gelevska, Reality At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 June
2011] UNICEF's child
protection officer Carry Nill says that the problem
of child sex slavery in ECPAT: CSEC
Overview www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/Country/CSECOverview/Macedonia.html [Last access date
unavailable] Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/macedonia.htm [accessed 19
February 2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Girls are involved in commercial sexual exploitation
on the streets of Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61662.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– There were four reported cases of trafficking involving girls during the
year. There were reports that female minors were recruited by some massage
parlor owners to perform sexual services for clients. In at least one case,
authorities shut down a massage parlor operating in this way. All
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