Human Trafficking Fight Out-Gunned. / P. Mitchell Prothero.
by Prothero, P. Mitchell; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 43Human Relations. Publisher: UPI, 2002ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): United Nations -- Bosnia and Herzegovina | Human rights -- Bosnia and Herzegovina | Illegal aliens -- Smuggling | Prostitution -- Eastern Europe | Young womenDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In the fight against human trafficking, sometimes it's hard to know what is more frustrating in a new country struggling to pull itself together in the aftermath of devastating civil war: Bosnia-Herzegovina's weak central government, its undertrained and underpaid police vulnerable to corruption, or more ordinary hurdles such as penalties that average about a month in jail for a conviction of forced prostitution, if prosecutors indeed manage to get a conviction." (UPI) This article reveals the obstacles faced by the U.N. and its special task force in attempting to end the international trafficking of young girls for prostitution in the Balkan region.
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Originally Published: Human Trafficking Fight Out-Gunned, Feb. 3, 2002; pp. n.p..
"In the fight against human trafficking, sometimes it's hard to know what is more frustrating in a new country struggling to pull itself together in the aftermath of devastating civil war: Bosnia-Herzegovina's weak central government, its undertrained and underpaid police vulnerable to corruption, or more ordinary hurdles such as penalties that average about a month in jail for a conviction of forced prostitution, if prosecutors indeed manage to get a conviction." (UPI) This article reveals the obstacles faced by the U.N. and its special task force in attempting to end the international trafficking of young girls for prostitution in the Balkan region.
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