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US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report for 2009 was released on June 16, 2009. Serbia (TIER 2) Serbia is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and girls trafficked internationally and within the country for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Foreign victims are trafficked to Serbia from Eastern

10 April 2009. | 00:38 | Source: Beta Podgorica – The Montenegrin Police said that they arrested two persons from Rožaje under suspicion of trafficking in human beings. The police accuse brothers S.K. (27) and S.K. (29), the owners of the restaurant “Amaro” from Rožaje, of “forcing into sexual services” two waitresses from Serbia. It

On April 30, 2009, the Government of Serbia adopted the national Action Plan for Combating Human Trafficking for the period 2009-2011. The National Action Plan was published in the Official gazette of RS, no. 35/09 of 12 May 2009.

27 March 2009. | 16:42 | Source: FoNet Belgrade – The police officers of the Belgrade Police Department arrested Josip Poljakovic and Arpad Senci from Subotica under suspicion of human trafficking. “This is the follow-up of an action which the police started on March 18, when Bajro Suljikovic, Sabahudin Granica and Gabrijela Imamovic were arrested

Source: FoNet, 19 March 2009 Belgrade – The police have arrested today there persons suspected of committing human trafficking with assistance of unknown persons whose identity is being established. The police reported that Bajro Suljković (38) and Sabahudin Granica (48) from Novi Pazar and Gabrijela Imamović (37) from Belgrade were detained. According to the communication,

(18 March 2009) Non-governmental organization ASTRA – Anti-trafficking Action welcomes the ratification of the Convention on action against trafficking in human beings by the National Assembly of Serbia. Convention on action against trafficking in human beings has as an objective prevention of trafficking in human beings, protection of victims and prosecution of perpetrators. It is

March 9, 2009, Source: B92 Novi Sad – The Novi Sad police arrested Milan B. (42 years) and Matilda F. (43) from Čenej, under suspicion of human trafficking. According to the police communication, the suspected recruited minor girl V.D. (16) from Kovilj and transported her to Šajkaški Put in Novi Sad, where she was forced

10 March 2009 Source: www.novosti.rs The Anti Trafficking Council had its first session on Sunday, which was, according to the members of the Council, symbolically held on March 8, the International Women’s Day. It is announced that in the following month the Government is supposed to adopt the National Action Plan for combating this type

BEOGRAD, 8 March 2009  Source Beta Interior Minister Ivica Dačić has announced today that the National Action Plan for combating human trafficking, which will contain all those activities that state authorities will take in this field, will be adopted in one month. At the press conference in the Serbia Palace, which followed after the session of

6 March 2009 | 00:58 | Source: Beta New York – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, in the eve of the International Women’s Day, called world leaders on responsibility for ending violence against women. The UN have launched an information database for documenting violence against women and for monitoring the efforts worldwide for ending it. “No