Kosovo (Serbia and Montenegro) "So does it Mean that we have the Rights?" Protecting the Human Rights of Women and Girls Trafficked for Forced Prostitution in Kosovo
- Document number
- 1127
- Date
- 2004
- Title
- Kosovo (Serbia and Montenegro) "So does it Mean that we have the Rights?" Protecting the Human Rights of Women and Girls Trafficked for Forced Prostitution in Kosovo
- Author/publisher
- Amnesty International, Stop Violence against Women
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Prevention, Awareness Raising, Empowerment, Information Campaigns, Witness protection, Vulnerability, Criminal justice, International Human Rights Law, Human trafficking, Identification, Reporting, Investigation, Victims (of trafficking), Trafficked persons, Prosecution, Compensation, Criminal charges, Protection, Return, Remaining in a Host Country/Country of Asylum, Reflection period, Residency permit, Social assistance, Health care, Social security, Advocacy, Human Rights approach, Victim protection,
- Summary
- Amnesty International has conducted research into the human rights abuses experienced by women trafficked into Kosovo since early 2000. Interviews were conducted with a wide range of international and local staff employed by UNMIK, including UNMIK police and the Kosovo Police Service (KPS); the OSCE; the International Organization for Migration (IOM); officers and staff of Ministries within the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG); members of international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in particular the Centre for the Protection of Women and Children (CPWC) (9) and the Centre to Protect Victims and to Prevent Trafficking of Human Beings in Kosovo (CPVPT)(10) and an NGO providing shelter for minors which wishes to remain anonymous; international prosecutors, members of the local judiciary in Kosovo and members of NGOs working in source countries with trafficked women. Amnesty International also conducted interviews with women who identified themselves as being trafficked.(11) In order to protect the rights of trafficked women, Amnesty International has throughout the report observed the confidentiality requested by those women, or by organizations working with trafficked women; no citations have been given that could assist in their identification. The illegal, organized and clandestine nature of trafficking, along with the silencing of trafficked women through coercion, violence and fear, make it impossible to accurately estimate the full extent of the trafficking industry in Kosovo.
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