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/SlovakRepublic.htm
The Slovak Republic is a source, transit, and limited
destination country for women and girls from Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria, the
Baltics, the Balkans, and China trafficked to the Czech Republic, Germany,
Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom,
Spain, Croatia, and Slovenia for the purpose of commercial sexual
exploitation. Roma women and girls are trafficked internally for sexual
exploitation and Roma children are trafficked to Austria, Italy, and Germany
for the purpose of forced begging. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 Check out a later
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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims International Organization for
Migration ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Trafficking In
Human Beings In International
Organization for Migration IOM, 2003 www.iom.pl/res/files/traffickstop/lf_nl_7slovakia.pdf [access date
unavailable] INTRODUCTION -
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
- Trafficking in women first appeared in ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Slovakia 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/slovakia/
[accessed 23 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR There were reports
by NGOs of male and female migrants forced to work in the country under
conditions of forced labor, including nonpayment of wages. Migrant workers in
the retail and construction sectors or employed as household help were
considered particularly vulnerable. Underemployed and undereducated Roma from
socially segregated rural settlements were disproportionately vulnerable to
forced labor. The government carried out extensive awareness-raising
campaigns on the dangers of trafficking in persons with a focus on forced
labor and organized joint inspections of business entities to identify
illegal employment and forced labor. Courts continued to issue light and
suspended sentences for the majority of convicted traffickers that failed to
deter trafficking offenses or protect victims. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT There were reports
Romani children in some settlements were subjected to trafficking for
commercial sex or forced marriage (see section 6, Children). NGOs reported
that family members or other Roma exploited Romani victims, including
children with disabilities. Child labor in the form of forced begging was a
problem in some communities. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/slovakia/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 8 July
2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Severe
marginalization of Roma harms their opportunities for social mobility.
According to the 2019 US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report,
human trafficking is a problem, and mainly involves the transport of men,
women, and children to countries in Western and Central Europe, where they
are engaged in forced labor, sex work, and begging. The government has
recently increased antitrafficking efforts,
including with more frequent investigations and prosecutions of organizers.
However, sentences are sometimes light, and victim identification and
services are inadequate. Training Roma to
combat human trafficking Council of Europe
Press Division, wcd.coe.int/wcd/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1056663 [accessed 28 August
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 UNICEF documents sexual
exploitation of children at German-Czech border UN News, www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?newsid=8713&cr=&cr1= [accessed 24 June
2013] The study says it
has proof of the existence of organized international trafficking in children
for sexual exploitation. ”Children
from other regions of the Czech Republic and from Central and Eastern
European States are trafficked to the border regions, or from there to
Germany, in order to be sexually exploited. Children from remote areas of the
Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic
and other countries such as Moldova, Ukraine, Lithuania and the Russian
Federation were observed and questioned. Their statements and, in particular,
the interviews with adult prostitutes, made it clear that gangs of pimps
systematically drag minors to the German-Czech border regions and force them
into prostitution,” it says. The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/slovak-republic.htm [accessed 22
December 2010] 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 from Slovakia are trafficked for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation, and Slovakia is a country of origin, transit
and a destination country for such victims of trafficking. The Committee on the Rights of the Child
has expressed concerns over several issues related to children. In particular,
the transit of trafficked children through Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 6 October 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/slovakia2000.html [accessed 22
December 2010] [29] Noting that
the State party has signed and is in the process of acceding to the Hague
Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of
Inter-country Adoption of 1993, the Committee is concerned at the absence of
clear legislative measures in this area [49] In line with
the observation of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child
prostitution, and child pornography, the Committee is concerned that ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61674.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The International Organization for Migration estimated that between 100 and
200 persons are trafficked annually from or through the country, mainly for the
purpose of sexual exploitation. Most of the victims trafficked through the
country came from the former Soviet republics (especially Traffickers lured
women with offers of employment, often relying on personal connections with
women. Activists who worked with the few victims forced to work while
transiting the country reported that most were placed as prostitutes or as
exotic dancers in nightclubs. Such activity was concentrated on the border
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