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Source: Blic| 25.06.2008 French and Bulgarian police uncovered a network of pimps who were sending Bulgarians to France to work as prostitutes, stated Bulgarian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Ministry said that 21 person was arrested in those two countries. 18 of them were arrested in France and three in Bulgaria, in Black Sea town Varna. […]

Source: Blic | 25.06.2008 Law enforcement of Montenegro and Serbia for fight against organized crime broke international human trafficking chain of girls from Ukraine transferred to Kosovo for sexual exploitation, said police of Montenegro. Mutual police action, called “Balkan route” lasted for several months. Two Ukrainian citizens came yesterday to Montenegro on the flight Kiev

25 June 2008. | Source: B92, FoNet, Beta Strasbourg, Priština – Swiss representative in Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe Dick Marty was appointed as rapporteur on illicit organs-trafficking in Kosovo. To remind you, such claims were stated in the book wrote by former prosecutor in Haag Tribunal, Carla Del Ponte. Marty said that trafficking

Source: FoNet, Tanjug 24 June 2008. Strasbourg – Committee for human rights and legal affairs of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe should discuss illicit organ-trafficking in Kosovo on tomorrow’s session. Chief of Serbian delegation in this institution, Miloš Aligrudić, said that this is “the most important topic” for Serbia. “It is supposed that victims

SERBIA (Tier 2) Serbia is a source, transit, and destination country for women and girls trafficked transnationally and internally for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Foreign victims are trafficked to Serbia from Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Albania, and the People’s Republic of China. Serbia continued to serve as a

Source: Glas javnosti | 06.06.2008. BELGRADE – Non-governmental organization ASTRA presented their anti-trafficking campaign “Naked Facts”, in which seven naked men show point out to the existing problem of slavery. In two television spots and on billboards, facts about trafficking are stated by journalists Jugoslav Ćosić, Dejan Anastasijević and Željko Bodrožić, director Milutin Petrović, actors

96 victim of human trafficking identified last year 02.06.2008, Source: Blic BELGRADE – Among human trafficking victims in Serbia during last year, men were more numerous than women. This shows data from Ministry of interior of Serbia, and the police discovered several crime groups recruiting people, mostly men, for labor exploitation. One criminal group recruited

KRAGUJEVAC – G. Dj. (38) from Kragujevac was arrested on Tuesday for collecting and distributing pornographic material over Internet, in which occur minor persons. The accused, father of two minor girls, got 48-hours detention, after which he will be brought to judge in Municipal court. According to Blic source, G. Dj. received hundreds of videos

28.05.2008, Source: Beta A couple from Vancouver offered their one week old baby for sale on the Internet for 10.000 dollars, stated Canadian police few days after similar case in Germany. The girl was taken by Social service and police started an investigation against the parents for human trafficking, said police officer Tim Fanning. According

24.04.2008, ASTRA NGO ASTRA – Anti Trafficking Action strongly condemned the attack on the photo reporter of Blic Daily Jovan Jarić, which took place in front of catering establishment “Kolasinka”. Two days ago, the owners of this establishment were sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison for human trafficking. ASREA reminds that On