Bosnian Protitute Trafficking

             TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN AND GIRLS TO POST-CONFLICT BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA FOR FORCED PROSTITUTION
             From 1992 through to 1995, thousands of women and girls ( 'girls' refers to females under the age of 18, who are considered children under the Convention on the Rights of the Child) suffered rape and other forms of sexual violence during the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including abuse in rape camps and detention centres scattered throughout the country. With the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in December 1995, violence against women and girls in Bosnia and Herzegovina did not cease. The sexual slavery of the war years has been substituted with the trafficking of women and girls for forced prostitution.
             Trafficked women and girls are held in debt bondage, forced to provide sexual services to clients, falsely imprisoned, and beaten when they do not comply with demands of brothel owners who have purchased them and deprived them of their passports. Many women and girls who have been interviewed described physical violence and rape en route to Bosnia-Herzegovina, at the hands of traffickers.
             According to experts involved in the attempted prevention of this human rights abuse, trafficking first began to appear in 1995 and is still widely performed today. The main locations for human being trafficking are suspected to be nightclubs and bars in many cities of Bosnia-Herzegovina. It is approximated that around 25 percent of the women and girls who work in these places are trafficked.
             Statistics remain unreliable, but it is estimated that as many as 2000 women and girls from the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries such as the Ukraine, Romania and Moldova, have found themselves trapped in Bosnian brothels. Many of these females had expected to travel to Italy or other western European countries to work legally, but have been forced into prostitution. The ages of the victims of these illegal activities rang...

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