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hands of traffickers Published reports & articles from 2000 to 2025 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Hungary.htm
Hungary is a source, transit, and destination country for
women trafficked from Romania and Ukraine to and through Hungary to the
Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Italy,
Switzerland, France, and the United Arab Emirates for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation. Experts noted a significant increase in
trafficking within the country, mostly women from eastern Hungary trafficked
to Budapest and areas along the Austrian border. Roma women and girls who
grow up in Hungarian orphanages are highly vulnerable to internal sex trafficking.
- U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report,
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Human Rights
Developments Human Rights Watch:
World Report 2002: Europe & Central Asia: www.hrw.org/wr2k2/europe11.html [accessed 14 July
2013] [Long
URL] [accessed 28 April
2020] The state response
to human trafficking remained poor, with uneven enforcement of antitrafficking legislation, inadequate victim support
services, and frequent police hostility toward women victims. ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Hungary 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/hungary/
[accessed 8 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR Groups vulnerable
to forced labor included those in extreme poverty, undereducated young
adults, Roma, and homeless men and women. Hungarian men and women were
subjected to forced labor domestically and abroad, and labor trafficking of
Hungarian men in Western Europe occurred in agriculture, construction, and
factories. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT Through the end of
2018, the employment authority reported 10 cases, involving 17 children, of
labor by children younger than 15. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/hungary/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 28 April
2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Hungary is a
transit point, source, and to a lesser extent, destination for trafficked
persons, including women trafficked for prostitution. Prevention,
coordination efforts, and processes to identify and support victims remain
inadequate, while trafficking investigations and enforcement of relevant laws
are unreliable. 10 family members
charged in human-trafficking case Adrian Morrow, The
Canadian Press, October 8, 2010 www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/10-family-members-charged-in-human-trafficking-case/article1749707/ [accessed 5
September 2014] [accessed 9 February
2019] Out of work and
impoverished, the men from the town of Papa in western Hungary were offered
jobs in Canada, where they believed they could start new lives or at least
earn enough money to support their families back home. The RCMP say the
reality they faced after their new bosses picked them up from John C. Munro
airport in Hamilton was far different: housed in the basements of their
employers’ homes and fed scraps from the table, they were made to work long
hours at construction sites for no money. The family’s
associates in Romanians arrested
in Polskie Radio S.A.,
11.05.2009 www.thenews.pl/news/artykul107977_romanians_arrested_in_warsaw_for_human_trafficking.html [accessed 8 February
2011] Forty-two year old Olimpia T. and 45-year-old Miron
T. are wanted for ‘renting’ handicapped people and forcing them to beg for
money on the streets of Underage
prostitution arrests Thomas Escritt, The [accessed 21 April
2012] Police in Szabolcs-Szatmár county have arrested three men who
abducted two girls and forced them into prostitution. The girls - aged 14 and 15 - were forced
into a car in the eastern town of Strategies for
Combating Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence Vital Voices Global
Partnership, September 15-17, 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6
September 2011] A CRITICAL MOMENT IN HUNGARY’S DEVELOPMENT - As
Hungary joins the European Union, Hungarian citizens and human rights experts
fear that, with the opening of borders to the West, appendix v -
Trafficking in Human Beings in www.ihf-hr.org/booklet/toc27.php [access date
unavailable] II. HUNGARIAN LAW IN
PRACTICE
- As it was mentioned, the Hungarian legislation is responding to the requirement
of the international standards. The number of trafficking cases under
prosecution, however, is not very high. In 1999, there were only two cases
registered, in 2000 11, in 2001 34, and in 2002 again 34 (the number of
violations of personal freedom in connection with trafficking in human beings
(Section 175 (2-3)) was 7 in 200, and 4 in 2001). The procedures are
relatively long, their average length used to be 2-3 years. As on the level
of prevention and combating of criminality, trafficking was not regarded as a
real priority, and the hidden criminality is probably quite high, it is
difficult to describe the reality of the present situation. The Directorate
against Organized Crime of the Police investigates trafficking cases
connected with organized crime. There is an improving cooperation with
foreign countries, to facilitate better police cooperation to combat
organized crime and trafficking in human beings. The National Crime
Prevention Centre has established a Coordination Committee against Trafficking
in Human Beings, and this committee just has started to elaborate a more
comprehensive strategy on combat against this phenomenon. Preying On Children
- The Number Of Kids Trafficked Into Virtual Slavery In Europe Is On The Rise Newsweek, November
17, 2003 www.newsweek.com/2003/11/16/preying-on-children.html [accessed 8 February
2011] Worried that
trafficking will only grow in the years ahead, Karl Peter Kirk in www.friends-partners.org/partners/stop-traffic/1999/1140.html [accessed 8 February
2011] Women are often the
victims of this new international mafia. The authorities in the United States
estimate that more than one million females are smuggled across borders every
year. Many, like the two dancers, are simply forced into prostitution. Others
naively believe adverts promising them a life of plenty abroad if they pay to
be smuggled across borders. When they arrive,
they find they have been duped and have to "pay" for the trip over
and over again - and that the only way to do so is to accept the offer of
"work" made by the criminals gangs who took them there. The extent
of the networks behind the trafficking in people and drugs is almost
unimaginable. In Russia alone, an estimated 9,000 criminal organisations are now in operation compared with about
700 a decade ago. UN estimates show that about 40,000 Russian businesses
operate under full or partial mafia control. The mafia is also
keen to make use of the opportunities afforded by the eastward enlargement of
the European Union. Lieutenant-Colonel Zsolt Bodnar, of the anti-organised
crime division of the Hungarian police, said: "The Russian mafia is
already present in Hungary in a
big way. They come here and start legitimate businesses and then just wait
because they know that Hungary will soon be a member of the EU and then their
opportunities for expansion will be immense." Factbook on Global
Sexual Exploitation - Coalition Against
Trafficking in Women, Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/europe.htm [accessed 8 February
2011] TRAFFICKING - In several
European Union Member States, prostitution has become increasingly dominated
by foreign women. In many areas within the European Union the number of
migrant prostitutes is higher than the number of local prostitutes. The slave trade in
women for sexual purposes is growing, and organized crime is more often
behind this trade. Smuggling in humans is much less risky than smuggling
drugs and it is highly profitable. Women from Africa
(Ghana, Nigeria, Morocco), Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican
Republic), South East Asia (the Philippines, Thailand), and Central and
Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary,
Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine) are the largest groups of women being
trafficked into the European Union. The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/hungary.htm [accessed 8 February
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor GOVERNMENT
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The Government of
Hungary is working with IOM and partner agencies to implement a trafficking
prevention program in schools. Through
consultations with NGOs, the government has also provided anti-trafficking
sensitization training to police, border guards, and consular officials. In 2003, the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees, in conjunction with the Government of Hungary, established a
shelter for unaccompanied minors in order to prevent them from being
recruited by traffickers. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 5 June 1998 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/hungary1998.html [accessed 8 February
2011] [22] The Committee
is concerned about the insufficiency of legal and other measures to address
the issue of sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution
and trafficking of children. The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/hungary.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
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Women are trafficked to Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/hungary [accessed 8 February
2011] ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Freedom House
Country Report 2018 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/hungary/freedom-world/2018 [accessed 28 April
2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Hungary is a
transit point, source, and destination for trafficked persons, including
women trafficked for prostitution. Victim identification efforts and services
for victims remain inadequate, and the rate of trafficking investigations and
prosecutions has decreased, according to the U.S. State Department’s 2017
Trafficking in Persons Report. However, the government has taken some recent
steps to address human trafficking; these include amendments to the criminal
code that allow the seizure of assets from traffickers, as well as more
funding for public awareness campaigns. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61652.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Organized crime syndicates transported many of the trafficking victims for
forced prostitution either in All
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