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3.12.2007, Source: Tanjug Prizren – Police found two girls near Prizren suspected to be victims of human trafficking and prostitution In a control of several bars in the village of Zrze near Prizren, police found one minor girl from Kosovo, reported to be missing, and another girl, citizen of Albania. The girl from Albania told

22.11.2007, Source: „ALO!“ Daily news Two unknown persons suspected for human trafficking were arrested yesterday night around 9.30 PM at Obrenovacki put (road). Chase to black BMW with Austrian licence plates and Audi with Italian ones started at Bubanj Potok and lasted for about 40 minutes, when police patrols managed to block the road for

05.11.2007, Surce: Blic NEGOTIN – Branislava S. (40) and her son Danijel (17), who have disappeared in October, and who are suspected to be kidnapped by human traffickers, are still missing. Police is not giving any details regarding this search for the reasons of their security and District attorney in Negotin, for the same reason,

01.11.2007, Surce: WUNRN Report Finds Human Trafficking Risk at 2010 Olympics Website Link VANCOUVER – A report by a leading counter-human trafficking organization warns that traffickers may seek to exploit the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver as a business opportunity. „There is a real risk that traffickers will seek to profit from the 2010 Olympics,“ said

29.10.2007, Source: B92 Paris — Seventeen Europeans arrested in Chad waiting for indictment regarding alleged temptation of child trafficking and trafficking in human organs. The Europeans, including nine French citizens, are detained in Chad, and may face charges for the alleged illegal transport of 103 children from East Chad to France. Chadian president accused French

18.10.2007. Source: Srna Ministry of Internal of the Republic of Serbia Dragan Jocic said that certain number of girls victims of human trafficking ends in Kosovo and Metohija, where are stationed international troupes which should be a guarantee of security, and instead they are generator of the problem. „Most usually victims of human trafficking in

29.10.2007, Source: 24sata POVERTY — Children, some as young as ten, work in clothing industry in India for GAP Inc. in order to be sold further in west-European market, reported yesterday London weekly Observer. This magazine informs that children stated to have been sold to the workplace by their parents, mostly from poor countries such

03.10.2007, Source: Danas One slap is also violence against children Belgrade – Campaign for legislative change of physical punishment of children in Serbia, under the slogan „Always by right, never by might“ was launched yesterday. Promoters of this initiative, 18 nongovernmental organizations supported by „Save the children“ and UNICEF, demand adoption of measures for explicit

25.09.2007. The main hearing in the indictment against Zdravko Lakovic and Mladen Dalmacija, scheduled for September 2, 2007 before the Third Municipal Court in Belgrade did not take place because the defendant Dalmacija was not brought from the Sremska Mitrovica Correctional Facility. Mladen Dalmacija, whom the Serbian police believe to be one of the major

20.09.2007, Source: BETA Kevin Kline’s new film on the epidemic trafficking of human beings, with girls forced into prostitution and children into slave labor, opened on Wednesday at the United Nations. The film entitled „Trade,“ inspired by a three-year-old New York Times magazine article, tells the story of a 13-year-old Mexican girl and a young