Serbia Serbia fights human trafficking

14 Dec 2011 | child trafficking thb

‘SETimes’ reports that according to the Serbian Interior and Justice ministries Serbian police identified 78 victims of human trafficking and filed 25 criminal complaints against 43 perpetrators, in 2011. The vast majority of the victims, 90%, are from Serbia, while the others are from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine and Montenegro. Interior ministry data shows that the most frequent occurrence in human trafficking is sexual exploitation. Trafficking humans is also used for the purposes of labour exploitation, to use the victims to commit criminal acts, forced begging and forced marriage. The most vulnerable categories are women and children who comprise 90% of the victims.

Source : SETimes