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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 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 [full country
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CAUTION: The following links have been
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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 *** 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] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Girls from Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61674.htm [accessed 22 December 2010] 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 with 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 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 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 Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7701 [accessed 22 December 2010] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page Sylvia Kralova, Fenestra, The Advocates for Human Rights, 20 May 2008 [accessed 22 December 2010] UNICEF documents sexual exploitation of children at
German-Czech border UN News, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 11 September 2011] 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,”
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