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28 September 2010 Source: Vecernje Novosti – S. Babovic Due to a very hard economic situation, residents of Doljevac decided to found an agency, which would, as they believe, save them from poverty. The organizers of this action say that more than one thousand persons are willing to look for the way out of the […]

Source: Xinhua Chinese police freed 10,621 women and 5,896 children who had been abducted for human trafficking as of September 6,since the Ministry of Public Security launched a crackdown on trafficking the crime in April last year. In the campaign, police nationwide apprehended 2,398 human trafficking gangs and handled 13,500 such cases, said the ministry

Source: Beta-AFP | 18. 09. 2010. – 20:16h | Greek police arrested five individuals, including one doctor, suspected of exploiting immigrant women for illicit ova trafficking in Bulgaria, local authorities have said today. Greek police, in cooperation with Bulgarian police, arrested the doctor, two Bulgarian and two Romanian nationals. The doctor was arrested at the

Tanjug, September 15th 2010 Kosovo police arrested seven individuals suspects of committing the crime of human trafficking and identified three victims, police said. In the last two days, within the police action “Fontana 2010” police arrested a criminal group suspected to be responsible for trafficking in human beings and prostitution. During this operation six persons

Tanjug September 14th 2010 Police department in Sremska Mitrovica arrested Izet S. (31) and Milica N. (26) from Pecinci on grounds of reasonable doubt that these persons committed the crime of trafficking in human beings involving four to 12 years old children, said the Police Department in Sremska Mitrovica today. By use of physical violence

On 14 June, US State Department released this year TIP Report. Like in the previous years, Serbia is classified as Tier 2 country according to  its anti-trafficking effort. SERBIA (Tier 2) Serbia is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and girls subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced prostitution and forced labor.

7 June 2010 | Source: Beta Leskovac – The Court in Leskovac sentenced Njegoš Đurović (22) to 10.5 years and Dejan Stefanović (22) to 10 years in prison for rape and soliciting minor girl Z.M. (13). The Court has found that since March until October 2009, they were psychologically and physically forcing the girl to

On the Ombudsman’s website, you can find the Instruction for standardized non-discriminatory language and behavior. With this Instruction, the Ombudsman recommends, initiates and requests from all institutions and actors in the public space to observe in all occasions the rules of non-discriminatory behavior and verbal expression. His opinion is that in the building of institutional

Eminent human rights defender and President of the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights passed away in Belgrade in 20 April 2010. Biljana Kovačević – Vučo was a human rights activists in Serbia. In her long career of peace and human rights activists, she was, inter alia, a founder of the Human Rights Council of the

11 March 2010. | 16:48 | Source: Tanjug Belgrade – The Interior Ministry reports that the police arrested Milivoje Zarubica (45), called Puja, known as the Balkan Human Trafficking King. It is said in the communication that Zarubica was arrested in Blace near Kursumlija. There has been an arrest warrant issued against him on the