HOPES BETRAYED:
Trafficking of Women and Girls to Post-Conflict Bosnia
and Herzegovina for Forced Prostitution
I am trying to get two foreigners’
department officers fired. They were
from PSC [public security center]
Prijedor. A seventeen-year-old from
Romania had 500 clients, was beaten
and maltreated…. I met the girl
again, [and she refused to speak to
the local police inspector. She told us
that] the inspector [went] to the
brothel and stamped the passports
with the inspectors from the
foreigners’ department who used the
girls for free.
Testimony to Human Rights Watch
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Vol. 14, No. 9 (D) – November 2002
Hundreds of nightclubs dot the landscape throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Some contain trafficked women and girls trapped in debt bondage.
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