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Thursday 4th November 2010 By Sam Chadderton » Reporter A DARWEN man has been accused of trying to arrange for a nine-year-old Serbian girl to be brought to England for sexual activity. Darren Lee Cook, 25, of Birch Hall Avenue, is alleged to have offered between £100 and £500 to fly the girl to East

Ana Lalić | 23. 10. 2010. – 00:02h | Photo: M. Perić Novi Sad – Novi Sad residents Riza R. (20), Ibrahim R. (18), Danijel S. (20) and Igor R. (26) have been arrested under suspicion that they were forcing a 14-year old girl into prostitution, keeping her locked in the house, beating her up

October 18, 2010 Source: Beta, Tanjug Belgrade – „Fight against Human Trafficking in the Republic of Serbia“ – Conference held in the Serbian Parliament to commemorate the European Anti-trafficking day. It is the first event which is dedicated to combating trafficking in human beings where Serbian Parliament took part as a host and co-organizer. The

Beta | 25 October 2010 Police officers from Vranje and Bujanovac arrested Bedžet Š. (29) from Borča and Alber M. (31) from Bujanovac for human trafficking and extramarital relationship with an underage girl. In the communication of the Vranje Police Department, it is said that in the period October 9 – 13, this year Bedžet

October 18, 2010, Source: Tanjug Priština – Head of EULEX Kosovo Xavier Bout de Marnhac said that Kosovo is a region of origin, transit and destination of trafficking victims. He said that EULEX is committed to systematically address the need to combat this crime. Mr. de Marnhac also said that he will ensure that cases

Davin Ellicson for The New York Times CONSTANTA, Romania THE 15-year-old had been “trained” in prostitution in a nightclub in the southern Romanian city of Calarasi. Now, the sex traffickers were getting ready to sell her off to a Turkish brothel for $2,800. Iana Matei, Romania’s leading advocate for the victims of trafficking, had made

Beta / 30th September 2010 The police in Pecinci arrested Dragoslav M. (38) under suspicion of forcing two girls from Novi Sad to prostitution in his unregistered café bar, confirmed today the police department in Sremska Mitrovica. The statement notes that from the beginning of this year the suspect Dragoslav M. forced the girls D.S.

September 30th 2010 / Source: Beta, Tanjug Doljevac – Rasim Ljajic, Minister of Labor and Social Policy, claims that Serbia is not that poor and that the citizens are not in such a bad position to be forced to sell their organs in order to satisfy basic needs and survive. Certain media published information that

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