Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Poverty drives the unsuspecting poor into the
hands of traffickers Published reports & articles from
2000 to 2025 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Croatia.htm
Croatia is a source,
transit, and destination country for men, women and children trafficked
across national borders for the purpose of sexual exploitation and forced
labor. Croatian females are also trafficked within the country, and women and
girls from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and other parts of Eastern Europe
are trafficked to and through Croatia for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
Two other notable trends were seen in Croatia in 2008: an increase in the
trafficking of men for the purpose of forced labor; and, for the first time,
Croatia serving primarily as a destination, not largely as a transit country,
for victims of trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and forced
labor. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 Check
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links have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEB-PAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of Human Trafficking are of
particular interest to you. Would you
like to write about Forced-Labor? Debt
Bondage? Prostitution? Forced Begging? Child Soldiers? Sale of Organs? etc. On the other
hand, you might choose to include precursors of trafficking such as poverty and hunger. There is a lot to
the subject of Trafficking. Scan other
countries as well. Draw comparisons
between activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims SOS hot line: 0800 77 99 Police – 92 International Organization for
Migration – 1 4816 774 Country code: 385- ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** A Human Trafficking
Victim Speaks With RFE/RL Ankica Barbir
Mladinovic, Radio Free Europe/Radio www.rferl.org/content/article/1069198.html [accessed 30 January
2011] "It happened
abroad," says Martina, a 29-year-old trafficking victim from It was like a
horror movie, she says. Martina was 19 years old at that time, trained
as a cook. She lived in the suburbs of Zagreb and desired a better job and a
better life. She met a young man who told her about his brother who had a
restaurant in Italy, but who had a hard time finding good employees. Martina was locked
in a Rome apartment for two months. Instead of working in a restaurant, she
was beaten and raped daily until she was “broken” and had become a sexual
slave. Then, she says, the man who bought her took her out to the street. ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Croatia U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/croatia/
[accessed 31 May
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR The government
effectively enforced the law. Penalties for conviction of forced labor were
commensurate with other serious violations. Inspection was sufficient to
enforce compliance. The government collaborated with several NGOs on public
awareness programs. Following the introduction of a national action plan in
2018, prosecutions and monitoring increased, and reports and prosecutions of
forced labor fell precipitously. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT The government
effectively enforced the law. Penalties were generally commensurate with
similar violations (see also section 7.b.). There were isolated instances of
violations of the child labor law. Labor inspectors identified 35 violations
involving nine minors in 2019. Violations involved minors working overtime or
past curfew and occurred mainly in the hospitality and construction sectors.
Some children were reportedly subject to early marriage that could result in
domestic servitude. Romani children were reportedly at risk of forced
begging. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/croatia/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 23 July
2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Worker protection
laws are robust, and the Office of the Labor Inspectorate actively
investigates work sites. However, labor violation remain
a problem within the hospitality sector. Workers in the informal sector have
less access to legal protections. Human trafficking
remains a problem, sentences for those convicted of it can be light, and
witness statements are not always given the appropriate consideration in
court cases. Croatian Police
Bust Human Trafficking Channel [access information
unavailable] The Croatian police
busted a channel for trafficking of humans in town of Balkans Urged To
Curb Trafficking Imogen Foulkes, BBC
News, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4397497.stm [accessed 30 January
2011] Countries in Initiative to Help
Fight Human Trafficking in Three SEE Countries Robert Herschbach for Southeast European Times, 05/04/05 www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2005/04/05/feature-03?print=yes [accessed 30 January
2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/croatia.htm [accessed 30 January
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The Government of
Croatia is implementing its National Plan of Action on Trafficking through a
National Committee for the Suppression of Trafficking in Persons. The trafficking action plan calls for
training programs for all professionals working with groups at high risk of
trafficking, including children, and schools are to develop curricula on the
issue. Since 2003, women and children taken into custody as illegal migrants
are screened as potential trafficking victims. The local In June 2004, a
working group on child trafficking was established. The Child Trafficking Prevention Program is
being implemented by the Center for Social Policy Initiatives, a national
NGO. Modules have been developed on child trafficking, child
exploitation, sexual exploitation of children, child
pornography, and the worst forms of child labor. Teachers have been
trained to use the program and a pilot project is underway in 5 elementary
schools in Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 1 October 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/croatia2004.html [accessed 30 January
2011] [66] While
welcoming the measures taken by the State party to prevent and raise
awareness of the problem of trafficking in persons, including the
establishment of the National Committee for the Prevention of Trafficking in
Persons responsible for formulating and implementing the National Plan for
the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons, it remains concerned about the
effective implementation of the Plan and at the lack of statistical data and
specific information on measures undertaken to combat trafficking. The Protection
Project - Croatia [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/croatia.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
- In
contrast to other countries in the region, there is little evidence that Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/croatia [accessed 30 January
2011] ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** 2017 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 20 April 2018 www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2017/eur/277151.htm
[accessed 20 March
2019] www.state.gov/reports/2017-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/croatia/ [accessed 25 June
2019] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR There were isolated
incidents of forced labor in private homes. Croatians, Bosnians, and
Romanians were subjected to forced labor in agriculture. Romani children were
at risk of forced begging. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT There were isolated
instances of violations of child labor legislation. Labor inspectors
identified 38 violations involving 24 minors. Violations involved minors
working overtime or past curfew and occurred mainly in the hospitality,
retail, services, food service, and tourism sectors. Some children were
reportedly subject to early marriage that could result in domestic servitude.
Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61642.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Refugees, displaced persons, and young persons were most at risk of being
trafficked. Anecdotal information indicated that international organized
crime groups, local groups, and travel or marriage agencies were responsible
for trafficking. Victims were subject to violence, intimidation, withholding
of documents, and threats by traffickers. All
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