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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Albania.htm
Albania is a source country for men, women,
and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor,
including forced begging. Albanian victims are trafficked primarily to
Greece, and also to Italy, Macedonia, Kosovo, Spain, France, the U.K. and
other Western European countries, as well as within Albania. Available data
indicate that more than half the victims of trafficking are under the age of
18. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking
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from the web to illuminate the situation in *** FEATURED
ARTICLES *** Help the Children Information and Research Centre for Children's Rights in At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 3 September 2011] THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES
THE ORGAN TRANSPLANTS IN ALBANIA - According to these articles, a clinic in Fieri city, practices the removal of the children organs
to further transport them in Italy and France, with involvement by Italian
and French groups and individuals», writes Karamanu
in her letter. «According to the media, these doctors mobilise
Albanian networks, which pay the children’s parents whose organs are removed.
Apart form this, figures report 39 missing children with no trace in Albania
and their parents making no effort to find them. For Albanians, It's Come to This: A Son for a TV Nicholas Wood, The New York Times, www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/000159.html [accessed 18 January 2011] Fatmira Bonjaku's
husband is in jail, accused by the police of selling their 3-year-old son to
an Italian man in return for the television set that six other children watch
in the family's dimly lighted room. The police also say her husband had plans
to sell their newest born, whom she is breast feeding. Over the past 12 years, since the
collapse of Stalinism here, a substantial trade in children has established
itself in Albania, Europe's most impoverished and long most isolated country. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/albania.htm [accessed 18 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The trafficking of Albanian children as young as 6 years old to Human Rights Reports » 2006
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78797.htm [accessed 18 January 2011] WOMEN - Many communities, particularly
those from the northeastern part of the country, still followed the
traditional code--the kanun--under which, according
to some interpretations, women are considered to be, and were treated as,
chattel. Some interpretations of the kanun dictate
that a woman's duty is to serve her husband and to be subordinate to him in
all matters. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61633.htm [accessed 18 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Internal
trafficking increased during the year. TdH
identified and assisted 126 trafficked children, approximately 53 of whom
were internally trafficked. Children were generally trafficked for forced
begging or sexual exploitation. Roma and Egyptian communities were
particularly vulnerable due to poverty and illiteracy. In a few cases
children were bought from families or kidnapped, reportedly for begging or
working abroad. According to TdH, children, mostly
from Romani and Egyptian communities, were increasingly trafficked for
begging by their parents without the involvement of a third party. The main forms of recruitment
involved marriage under false pretenses or false promises of marriage to lure
victims abroad for sexual exploitation. Due to the poor economic situation,
men and women from organized criminal groups also lured many women and girls
from all over the country by promising them jobs in Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 28 January 2005 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/10c1b349cbae3e05c1256fa4004ac5b2?OpenDocument [accessed 18 January 2011] [70] The Committee notes the
concerns expressed by the State party at the extent of the problem of sexual
exploitation of children in The Story of E.R. True Stories, Anti-Trafficking Educational Curriculum,
Association of Albanian Girls and Women - AAGW www.aagw.org/Education/TrueStories/True1ER
[accessed 18 January 2011] "My name is E.R. and I am
from Elbasan. When I was 15, my parents married me,
against my will, to a man aged 35, whom I did not love. So started my
miseries. Not too long afterwards, I
abandoned him and returned to my family. But my parents did not accept me
back because I had dishonored them by leaving my husband. I had no support
and nowhere to go. I got acquainted with a boy who was 20 who said he loved
me and promised to marry me. He convinced me to go to Italy for 'a better
life.' I thought my sufferings now were
at an end, but I did not know the real hell that was expecting me. I was
compelled to work on the street. I did so for nearly three years. My
exploiter savagely battered me frequently, mainly when I did not bring home
the required sum or when he faced drug trafficking problems. Replenish rock band see “evils of human trafficking” in Inspire Magazine www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/news.aspx?action=view&id=931 [accessed 18 January 2011] During the five-day trip, Ross
Gill, Harun Kotch and
Darren Lewis from the band Replenish met women and children who had been
victims of trafficking, including Nazire*, a young
woman who had been abducted at knifepoint and trafficked to Greece, where she
was forced into prostitution. Nazire’s family was
later able to secure her release but because she reported her kidnappers to
the police, she and her family live in constant fear of reprisals. Training Roma to combat human trafficking Council of wcd.coe.int/wcd/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1056663 [accessed 1 September 2011 Through a contribution of the
Norwegian and Finnish governments, the Council of Europe is organising training courses to prevent human trafficking
of Roma from Albanian PM: government has aided human trafficking Serbianna News, Tirana, June 26, 2006 www.serbianna.com/news/2006/01925.shtml [accessed 18 April 2012] Widespread corruption in Authorities arrest 80 mobsters operating between Italy and
Albania AP Worldstream, www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-116351378.html [partially accessed 18 January 2011 - access restricted] Carabinieri in the Calabrian
town of UN Special Rapporteur ends visit
to Albania United Nations Press Release, November 8, 2005 www.hrea.org/lists/child-rights/markup/msg00369.html [accessed 18 January 2011] In the area of child trafficking,
Albania has several achievements to report: the legislative and policy
frameworks are in place; there is more awareness in society; the police is
better trained to deal and investigate this crime; border control improved;
the establishment of the court of serious crimes and the prosecutors' office
for serious crimes increased the prosecution capacity; NGOs gained a valuable
expertise in delivering rehabilitation programs for victims of trafficking
and in providing social services to communities. All this did not exist 5
years ago. They are important achievements. UN expert fighting sex trafficking calls for child
protection system in Albania UN News Centre, November 8, 2005 www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=16480&Cr=albania&Cr1 [accessed 18 January 2011] The new Government of Albania has
improved the legal framework necessary to reduce the flow of trafficked
children, but it must develop a national child protection system aimed at
combating the poverty that drives exploitation, a United Nations human rights
expert said
after completing his visit to the Balkan country. Balkans Urged To Curb Trafficking Imogen Foulkes,
BBC News, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4397497.stm [accessed 18 January 2011] Countries in Children of the Stoplights Discarded Lies, Winds of
Change.NET, January 14, 2005 www.windsofchange.net/archives/006160.html [accessed 18 January 2011] The Greek government estimates
that there are some 3,000 unaccompanied Albanian children in the country,
with more coming during the summer months. In oral evidence about the
trafficking of Albanian children to Albanian State Should Collaborate With NGOS Rrezearta Ago, OneWorld
Southeast At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Helga Konrad,
OSCE Trafficking Representative, has declared that Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 3 Civil
Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7551 [accessed 18 January 2011] Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/albania [accessed 18 January 2011] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights,
January 2009 [accessed 18 January 2011] Library of Congress Call Number
DR910 .A347 1994 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/altoc.html [accessed 18 January 2011] Human Rights in Amnesty International Report 2007 www.amnesty.org/en/region/albania/report-2007 [accessed 18 January 2011] TRAFFICKING - Despite increased, and to some
extent successful, measures to counter trafficking, Human Rights Watch World Report 2003 - Events of 2002 www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k3/europe1.html [accessed
18 January 2011] Help the Children Information and Research Centre for Children's Rights in At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 3 September 2011] THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES
THE ORGAN TRANSPLANTS IN ALBANIA - According to these articles, a clinic in Fieri city, practices the removal of the children organs
to further transport them in Italy and France, with involvement by Italian
and French groups and individuals», writes Karamanu
in her letter. «According to the media, these doctors mobilise
Albanian networks, which pay the children’s parents whose organs are removed.
Apart form this, figures report 39 missing children with no trace in Albania
and their parents making no effort to find them. Child Trafficking in EU countries [PDF] www.stopchildtrafficking.org/site/uploads/media/english/EU.pdf [access date unavailable] In Trafficked children in Greece
mainly come from Albania, but also from Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia.
For some time now they have also been coming from Iraq. - htsc NetCent Communications NCBuy
Home : -- Data Source: US Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs www.ncbuy.com/reference/country/humanrights.html?code=it&sec=6f [accessed 18 January 2011] [6f] TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS - Police and prosecutorial
investigations, focusing on traffickers who smuggled young women from For Albanians, It's Come to This: A Son for a TV Nicholas Wood, The New York Times, www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/000159.html [accessed 18 January 2011] Fatmira Bonjaku's
husband is in jail, accused by the police of selling their 3-year-old son to
an Italian man in return for the television set that six other children watch
in the family's dimly lighted room. The police also say her husband had plans
to sell their newest born, whom she is breast feeding. Over the past 12 years, since the
collapse of Stalinism here, a substantial trade in children has established itself
in Albania, Europe's most impoverished and long most isolated country. Child trafficking in eastern Europe: A trade in human
misery Richard Tyler, World Socialist Web
Site, October 25, 2003 www.wsws.org/articles/2003/oct2003/traf-o25.shtml [accessed 18 January 2011] International federation Terre des
Hommes estimates that 6,000 children between the
ages of 12 and 16 are trafficked from eastern Europe each year, with more
than 650 being forced to work as sex slaves in Sex and slavery John Gibb, The Observer, February
23, 2003 www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2003/feb/23/features.magazine67 [accessed 18 January 2011] Police estimate that 10,000
illegal immigrants are working as prostitutes in Dying to Leave Thirteen, www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/dying-to-leave/human-trafficking-worldwide/albania/1447/ [accessed 18 January 2011] VICTIMS - Foreign women and girls, the
majority of whom are from Albanian children, both boys and
girls, are trafficked to A smuggler’s paradise - There’s money to be made on the
roads of southeastern David Binder, msnbc.com, May, 2002 [accessed 18 January 2011] [scroll down] On a broad plain south of Tuzi lies a sprawling, ramshackle refugee camp next to
the huge city dump. Traffickers in sex slaves hold girls kidnapped from as
far aw.ay as Romania here before they are shipped
across the Adriatic to Italy, according to the Albanian Interior Ministry. All material used herein
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