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Agency for Coordination of Protection to Victims of Human Trafficking opened
Belgrade,
30 June 2004
With the help of the OSCE Mission in Serbia-Montenegro, a new institution has been created to support the Serbian authorities in fighting trafficking in human beings and assisting the victims of the crime. The Agency for the Co-ordination of Protection to Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings in Serbia was established in co-operation with the Serbian Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy to ensure that trafficking victims are correctly identified in Serbia and given adequate assistance.
The institution will co-operate on a daily basis with specialist NGOs, the police, the judiciary and other professionals dealing with trafficked people.
The OSCE Mission and the Ministry, together with the Governments of the Netherlands and the United States, are financing the pilot phase in which the agency will begin operating.
National coordinator for fighting human trafficking Dusan Zlokas told a press conference today that 275 criminal offences related human trafficking have been registered in Serbia in the past three years, with 30 people detained, and 116 victims identified and accommodated in two specialised shelters.
According to Zlokas, Serbia-Montenegro has been marked as a transit country for trafficking in human beings and illegal emigration, while international criminal groups are using our territory for smuggling the so-called “white slaves” from Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria to Western European countries.
Participants in the conference also said that human trafficking is the “biggest of evils,” after terrorism and drug trafficking.
The OSCE Mission and the Ministry, together with the Governments of the Netherlands and the United States, are financing the pilot phase in which the agency will begin operating.
National coordinator for fighting human trafficking Dusan Zlokas told a press conference today that 275 criminal offences related human trafficking have been registered in Serbia in the past three years, with 30 people detained, and 116 victims identified and accommodated in two specialised shelters.
According to Zlokas, Serbia-Montenegro has been marked as a transit country for trafficking in human beings and illegal emigration, while international criminal groups are using our territory for smuggling the so-called “white slaves” from Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria to Western European countries.
Participants in the conference also said that human trafficking is the “biggest of evils,” after terrorism and drug trafficking.
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