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Agreement for realisation of "Modern Slavery" project signed

Belgrade, 22 December 2006

Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Policy Slobodan Lalovic signed today with "Monte Royal Pictures International" production house an agreement for realisation of the "Modern Slavery" project, which is a TV series consisting of 13 one-hour episodes, based upon true events.

From left: Bojana Maljevic, Slobodan Lalovic and Dusan Zlokas

Lalovic said at a press conference at the Serbian government that the cost of this project, which will be part of the campaign against human trafficking, is RSD 12 million, and the government has approved RSD 6 million for its beginning.

Since it is obvious that awareness of the problem in Serbia is not high enough, Lalovic said that the TV series will be accompanied with a follow-up campaign because according to official data, 120,000 women are trafficked each year through the Balkans to the European Union.

Lalovic warned that the number of trafficked children has increased dramatically, since in 2004 and 2005, their percentage in the discovered cases was as much as 56%.

Hanelore Valier

Head of the OSCE Mission's Department for Democratisation in Belgrade Hanelore Valier said that OSCE will help raise public awareness of the problem of human trafficking.

National coordinator for the fight against human trafficking Dusan Zlokas said that the Serbian Ministry of Interior formed special units for fight against human trafficking and that in the past few years 250 criminal complaints were filed against almost 400 persons for 360 crimes related to human trafficking .

Representative of "Monte Royal Pictures International" Bojana Maljevic, who designed the project, announced that the series will have been completed by the end of 2007 and that it will be shot and screened in the entire region.