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REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA
COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
OFFICE OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR COORDINATION
NATIONAL STRATEGY
FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST CHILD TRAFFICKING AND
THE PROTECTION OF CHILD VICTIMS
OF TRAFFICKING
I. Introduction:
Over the last decade, Albania has experienced a difficult and complex transition process, which
has been associated with previously unexperienced levels of unemployment and poverty, uncontroled
demagraphic movements within the country and overseas, and new social phenomena resulting from
these changes.
Initially, large-scale emigration to western European countries was stimulated by the collapse of
the previous political system and the desire to exploit the opening up of the country’s borders to seek
a better life abroad. Until the beginning of 1992, this resulted in mass flows of Albanian migrants to
Western Europe, and especially to Greece and Italy, as Albania’s closest European neighbors.
After 1992, when this mass emigration stopped, criminal and corrupt elements began to establish
illegal trafficking routes, which provided them with great profit. It was at this stage that the criminal
activity of trafficking in human beings, including the trafficking of women and children for exploitation
purposes, began to emerge as a new and highly destructive phenomenon inAlbanian society, providing
even more lucrative business for the traffickers.
In addition, prolonged conflict in the Balkans, internal instability, the emergence of national and
international organized crime and smuggling networks, and the uncontrolled movements of people
across international borders, exacerbated the domestic trafficking phenomenon by bringing into the
country large numbers of illegal migrants, including women and children from Eastern European and
more distant countries, either for purposes of exploitation in Albania, or for transit towards the rest
of Europe.
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