News in English     | 19.10.2021. 11:00 |

World Vision BiH conducting campaign to inform citizens about human trafficking

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, October 19 (FENA) - The Police Directorate of the Ministry of Interior of the Tuzla Canton (MoI TC), the association "Land of Children" and World Vision (WVI) BiH, mark October 18 - European Anti-Trafficking Day,  with a campaign of informing the citizens about human trafficking.

According to the records of the Centers for Social Work in the area of ​​the Tuzla Canton, in the period from 2015 to 2019, a total of 257 children had been registered to beg on the streets regularly or occasionally, independently or accompanied by parents/guardians.

Police officers, together with representatives of the Tuzla Center for Social Work, a Roma community mediator and the NGO sector, are part of an informal mobile team that prevents and identifies potential cases of trafficking.

Investigator in the Department for the Fight against Organized Crime and coordinator of the Coordination Team for the Fight against Trafficking in Human Beings, Mehmedalija Fišeković, stated that a report was filed against two people in 2017, stating that six children were exposed to exploitation.

"The case ended with a final verdict against a person with a prison sentence of five years. Some cases have been finalized, while the trial of a certain number of cases is in progress," said Fišeković.

World Vision BiH, together with partners at the local level, has created a multisectoral approach that contributes to solving this insufficiently visible problem.

"World Vision BiH supports the initiative of the Coordination Team for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in the Tuzla Canton to the City Administration of Tuzla to formalize the mobile team for Identification of Trafficking in Human Beings because it would contribute to recognizing and strengthening the work of this important local mechanism," said a representative of World Vision BiH Dragana Bulić.

WVI BiH and its partners also support the development of a Protocol for the Prevention and Treatment of Begging and Other Forms of Child Exploitation at the Local and Cantonal Levels in BiH and the improvement of access to mobile teams to identify (potential) victims of trafficking in the Western Balkans that would lead to solving the problem of human trafficking.

Proving cases of human trafficking, including cases of forced begging of children, is extremely complex, which is why the cooperation of all state institutions is extremely important, stated the WVI in BiH.

(FENA) S. R.

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