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/Slovenia.htm
Slovenia is
primarily a transit country for men, women, and children trafficked from
Ukraine, Moldova, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, the Dominican Republic,
Thailand, and Iran through Slovenia to Western Europe for the purposes of
commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. To a lesser extent, Slovenia
is also a destination country for men, women, and children trafficked from
Ukraine, the Dominican Republic, and Romania for forced labor and commercial
sexual exploitation and a source of women trafficked for the purpose of
forced prostitution within Slovenia. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 Check out a later country report here and possibly a full TIP Report here |
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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims International Organization for
Migration ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** A modern slave's
brutal odyssey BBC News, 3 November
2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3979725.stm [accessed 22
December 2010] EX-TRAFFICKER'S
STORY
- One former trafficker, now working with the authorities and living at a
secret address, told Slavery Today how his former gang would operate. "Most of the time we would use
professional recruiters, but at times we would kidnap women and children
ourselves," he said. "The
children were taken to be sold in Italy, and the better-looking women were
kept as prisoners and made to work as prostitutes. "I have heard
that sick children are sold and made into beggars. "The healthy ones are kept and trained
to work for the Mafia, to deal drugs, to murder - whatever they are capable
of. Some trafficked people have their
organs removed. "I've also heard
that some children were sold for organs. This also happened with men and
women, depending on the demand." And he admitted to
often using force to capture people.
"If they didn't want to be separated from their families, we'd
hit them until they did what we wanted," he said. "Generally threats are made that
another family member will be murdered if orders are not obeyed." Working in Eastern Europe, the gang would
drive trafficked men into Slovenia,
from where they would be transported, to look for work on places such as
building sites. ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Slovenia 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/slovenia/
[accessed 24 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR There were reports
men, women, and children were subjected to forced labor in the construction sector
and forced begging. A government report found minors and migrant workers were
particularly vulnerable to forced labor or trafficking conditions, while
fraudulent employment and recruitment of migrant workers remained a problem. PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT The government
generally enforced child labor and minimum age laws effectively.
Nevertheless, children younger than 15 in rural areas often worked during the
harvest season. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/slovenia/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 10
September 2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Authorities
actively prosecute suspected human traffickers and work to identify victims. Many people at the
beginning of their careers or nearing retirement are employed under
precarious conditions. Additional legal protections against labor
exploitation were enacted in recent years, but the scope of the problem is
still being investigated. Labor unions cite
extended work hours and workplace quality as pressing issues, while experts
say that the main problem is lack of oversight. G3. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY PERSONAL SOCIAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING CHOICE OF MARRIAGE PARTNER AND SIZE
OF FAMILY, PROTECTION FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, AND CONTROL OVER APPEARANCE? Individuals
generally enjoy personal social freedoms. People entering same-sex
partnerships enjoy most of the rights conferred by marriage but cannot adopt
children or undergo in-vitro fertilization procedures. Marriage is still
legally defined as a union between a man and a woman. Domestic violence is
illegal, but remains a concern in practice. Up to 1,300 cases are reported
annually, though nearly all reported cases are investigated. Smuggler's Prey – [PDF] www.docstoc.com/docs/72511272/Smugglers-Prey-My-life-is-no-longer-my-own---Lida_-an-orphan [accessed 24 June
2013] Chapter 1,
Smugglers' Prey -- The Natashas: The Horrific Inside Story of Slavery, Rape, and
Murder in the Global Sex Trade, [Book by Victor Malarek,
Skyhorse, Sep 1, 2011] [Found listed, 23 February 2019] Every day, scores
of young women throughout the former East Bloc are lured by job offers that
lead to a hellish journey of sexual slavery and violence. Despite the barrage
of warnings on radio and TV, in newspapers and on billboards, desperate women
continue to line up with their naiveté and applications in hand, hoping that,
this time, they might just be in luck. The route from
Serbia to Italy is either overland—through Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia—or through the Albanian
seaport towns of Vlorë and Durres, where women
cling to high-speed rubber dinghies charging across the Adriatic Ocean to the
Italian coast. SEECRANews 09 (IV) June 10,
2004 [DOC] South East European
Child Rights Action Network SEECRAN, June 10, 2004 www.seecran.org/news/seecranews/SEECRANews.09_IV.doc [accessed 22
December 2010] At the Meeting it was pointed out that Slovenia represents the country
of origin, the country of final destination as well as the transit country in
international trafficking of human beings. NGO Kljuc
that was established in November 2001 is the first and the only NGO in
Slovenia whose fundamental goal is to help the victims of trafficking in
human beings in Slovenia. Before Kljuc was
established the fight against trafficking in human beings involved only the
prosecution bodies, while nobody paid attention to the victims. The main
current activities of Kljuc are the following:
provision of psycho-social help to the victims of trafficking, assistance
with the victims` returning to their domicile country, implementation of
advisory conversations on the 24-hour telephone line, encouraging the victims
to co-operate with the prosecution bodies, accommodation in a “safe house”
and crises intervention for the victims of trafficking. Death of sex worker
in slo-bulletin.blogspot.com/2004/11/death-of-sex-worker-in-bosnia-puts.html [accessed 22
December 2010] Popik worked as a
prostitute in The question now
is, how many of these men will now come down with any - or all - of the
diseases she was carrying? State and NGO to
Tackle Human Trafficking Hand in Hand Vesna Žarkovič,
Government PR and Media Office, Slovenia News, ISSN 1581-4866, Issue #13,
March 31, 2004 slonews.sta.si/index.php?id=1352 [accessed 22
December 2010] Based on the agreement,
victims of human trafficking - especially non-Slovenian citizens - will be
provided assistance and the guarantee that they will be treated humanely and
according to legal standards. The document sets down the legal framework for
the victims' stay in Slovenia, giving them internationally comparable
protection and the chance to exert their rights. Cases related to organised crime will be given special attention. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 26 February 2004 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/4bc10061499e3b6bc1256e2e003da598?OpenDocument [accessed 22
December 2010] [accessed 16
February 2018] [34] While welcoming the new Implementation
of Fostering Activities Act of 2003, which provides for a more systematic
regulation of fostering activities, the Committee is concerned that the
mechanisms for reviewing and monitoring the placement of fostered children
are not sufficient. Furthermore, the Committee is concerned at the lack of
standards and regulations on adoption and of a national adoption register. [62] While
welcoming the measures taken by the State party to combat and raise awareness
of the problem of trafficking in persons, including the establishment of the
Interdepartmental Working Group on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, the
Committee is concerned about reports that ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61675.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Organized criminal groups, nightclub owners, and local pimps were primarily
responsible for trafficking. A 2003 study by the International Organization
for Migration reported that traffickers lured victims from Freedom House
Country Report 2018 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/slovenia/freedom-world/2018 [accessed 5 May 2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS ENJOY
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Men from other
countries in Central and Eastern Europe can be found engaged in forced begging, and women and children are subject to forced
prostitution. However, authorities actively prosecute suspected human
traffickers and work to identify victims. All
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