183 women found in 28 nightclubs in Kosovo, 7 bars closed (Radio kontakt plus)
Kosovo police unit for human trafficking during the search of 28 nightclubs across Kosovo found 183 women, while 7 bars were closed under suspicion of being involved in human trafficking, Radio kontakt plus reported. Among found women, 122 are citizens of Albania, 56 are from Kosovo, 2 are from central Serbia, 2 from Macedonia and […]
Read More →Human trafficking continues in Kosovo (K 2.0)
New report suggests some progress from previous years. The U.S. State Department released its 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report this week, which indicates that Kosovo has a long way to go to tackle the phenomenon. As with last year, Kosovo has been categorized as a Tier 2 country, meaning it has “not fully met Trafficking […]
Read More →US State Department: Kosovo, source and destination for human trafficking (Koha)
The most recent report of the US State Department on human trafficking across the world categorized Kosovo as a source and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor, including in the restaurant industry. It stated that most sex trafficking victims in Kosovo are girls and that they are […]
Read More →Another blow to the government from the U.S. Department of State (Kosova Sot)
The paper’s front-page editorial notes that the government of the Republic of Kosovo received another blow on Thursday, this time from the U.S. Department of State’s report on human trafficking. According to the report, the Kosovo government fails to entirely meet the minimal standards for eliminating human trafficking and that corruption in the government creates […]
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