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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century 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, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Human Rights Watch: World Report 2002:
Europe & Central Asia: www.hrw.org/wr2k2/europe11.html [accessed 8 February 2011] HUMAN RIGHTS
DEVELOPMENTS
- 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 *** 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] 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. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61652.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Organized crime syndicates transported many of the trafficking victims for
forced prostitution either in 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. 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 8 February 2011 – access is now
restricted] 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 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 Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/hungary [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/hungary [accessed 8 February 2011] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, December
13, 2010 [accessed 8 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DB906 .H86
1990 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/hutoc.html [accessed 8 February 2011] 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. Human Rights Developments Human Rights Watch: World Report 2002:
Europe & Central Asia: www.hrw.org/wr2k2/europe11.html [accessed 6 September 2011] 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. Preying On Children - The Number Of Kids
Trafficked Into Virtual Slavery In 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. All
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