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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century 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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have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in the ***
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/report/freedom-world/2009/slovakia [accessed 28 June 2012] 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,” it says. All
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