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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century 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
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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 *** 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 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61675.htm [accessed 22 December 2010] 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 Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
30 January 2004 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/4bc10061499e3b6bc1256e2e003da598?OpenDocument [accessed 22 December 2010] [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 Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/slovenia [accessed 28 June 2012] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, 30 July
2010 [accessed 22 December 2010] 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. Smuggler's Prey [PDF] www.selfconnection.ca/Descriptions/9780143012597.pdf [accessed 19 December 2010] 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. All
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