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November 2002
Volume 14 No. 9 (D)

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

HOPES BETRAYED:

TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN AND GIRLS TO POST-CONFLICT BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA FOR FORCED PROSTITUTION

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Summary and Recommendations
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Supplemental Materials
The U.S. government recently released documents on human trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina in response to multiple Freedom of Information Act requests by Human Rights Watch.
In 2003, the Department of Defense Inspector General launched an investigation into human trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Inspector General's findings largely confirm Human Rights Watch's own conclusions. Click here to see a copy of the Department of Defense report.

 

ABBREVIATIONS

I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

II. KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

III. BACKGROUND

IV. WOMEN'S AND GIRLS' EXPERIENCES OF TRAFFICKING INTO THE BOSNIAN SEX INDUSTRY

V. INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC LEGAL PROTECTIONS AGAINST TRAFFICKING

VI. LOCAL POLICE INVOLVEMENT IN TRAFFICKING

VII. THE BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT RESPONSE

VIII. THE U.N. RESPONSE

IX. LEGAL IMMUNITY AND IMPUNITY FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS INVOLVED IN TRAFFICKING

X. IPTF AND TRAFFICKING

XI. SFOR CONTRACTOR INVOLVEMENT

XII. CONCLUSION

Acknowledgments

ABBREVIATIONS

BiH Bosnia and Herzegovina

CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child

ECHR European Court of Human Rights

EUPM European Union Police Mission

ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

IOM International Organization for Migration

IPTF International Police Task Force

KM Convertible Mark

MEJA Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act

ODIHR Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

OHCHR Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

OHR Office of the High Representative

OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

RS Republika Srpska

SFOR NATO-led Stabilization Force

SRSG Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General

STOP UNMIBH Special Trafficking Operations Program

UNMIBH United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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