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Trafficking in Human Beingsin Southeastern EuropeKosovoOverviewof Activities3. OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES IN KOSOVOUNMIK and INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES NGOsLocal NGOs (Alternativa, PostPessimists)• Participation in the IOM campaign onprevention of trafficking, legal traveland migration for young womenLocal NGOs• Undertaking research on internal traffickingand trafficking of women fromAlbania• Participation in IOM/OSCE awarenesscampaignsOSCE• Training on anti-trafficking regulation, international standards and local procedures for OSCE HumanRights Officers and Trafficking Focal Points• Training for university teaching staff and students, international agencies staff• Capacity building for NGOsIOM• Information and awareness campaign for clients and potential clients, international community, general public,youth (on trafficking prevention and perspective of migration), young women (on work and migration)UNICEF• Research into trafficking of Kosovar women (planned)• Awareness raising activities on children’s and women’s rightsUNIFEM• Report on violence against women in Kosovo, including traffickingUNMCOR (international NGO)• Shelter (opened July 2000), includingsafe accommodation, medical andpsychosocial counselling, vocationaltrainingCentre for Women and ChildProtection (local NGO)• Shelter for victims of domestic violenceand internal trafficking, including medicalcounselling, psychosocial support• Reintegration programme for internallytrafficked women, including therapyand vocational trainingUNMIK• Trafficking Round Table and Shelter Co-ordination Working Group• Victims Assistance and Victims Advocate Co-ordinators to be establishedOSCE• Joint Standard Operating Procedures for Victim Assistance (SOP) in co-ordination with IOM and UNMIK Police• Established 5 regional Trafficking Focal Points• Drafted Direct Assistance to Internally Trafficked Victims, including referral system, procedures and shelterproject for internally trafficked persons in co-ordination with IOM• Repatriation and reintegration assistanceIOM• Return and reintegration programmes for foreign trafficked personsNorma - Association for Legal Aid forWomen (local NGO)• Participation in training for victimadvocacy• Provision of legal assistance to traffickedwomenUNMIK• Anti-Trafficking Regulation adopted January 2001• Legal Working Group on Trafficking in Persons: directive to administration and courts on implementation ofVictim Assistance Co-ordinator’s mandateCIVPOL• Trafficking and Prostitution Investigation Units (TPIU) in 5 regionsOSCE• Victim Advocates Programme, legal aid for trafficking victims• Training for judges, defence and local lawyers on anti-trafficking regulationUNICEF• Juvenile justice legal framework, advocacy, human rights106Prevention &RaisingAwarenessProtection &AssistanceLaw Reform &Enforcement
Trafficking in Human Beingsin Southeastern EuropeFormer YugoslavRepublic ofMacedoniaFormerYugoslavRepublic ofMacedonia1. OverviewAs with other countries in the region, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia(FYR Macedonia) reports an increase in the trafficking of and presenceof foreign women in the country. The problem has been exacerbated over thepast seven years by the transition from a communist system, the Kosovo crisis,an increase in organised crime and a breakdown in border controlthroughout Eastern Europe. An increased international presence has also beenlinked to the increase in prostitution and trafficking, particularly in touristareas such as Ohrid and Struga. However, the police report that the sex marketis still mainly domestic.Since March 2001, armed conflict with the Albanian National Liberation Army(UCK) in the west of the country and the ensuing political crisis has haltedactions against trafficking and made it virtually impossible to obtain informationfrom western FYR Macedonia. As most of the trafficking is taking place inthat part of the country - the area of most unrest and conflict – up to dateinformation on trafficking does not exist at the time of writing this report.Apart from Tetovo and Gostivar, a police presence has not been restored inwestern FYR Macedonia.1.1. Migration, prostitution and traffickingFYR Macedonia is recognised as a transit and destination country for traffickingin women and girls for forced prostitution, particularly in the tourist areasof Struga and Ohrid in the south, and the predominantly Albanian towns ofTetova and Gostivar in the west. This situation has arisen partly as a result ofthe comparative ease with which tourists can enter FYR Macedonia comparedto West European countries, and partly as a result of the presence of a greatnumber of foreign soldiers from UNPREDEP, UNPROFOR, KFOR and other foreignmissions. 117Women enter FYR Macedonia legally or illegally from Serbia (area ofKumanovo, part of Kosovo and the area of Tetovo) and Bulgaria (Kriva,Palanka, Delcevo and Strumica). The illegal channels to exit FYR Macedoniaare from Dojran and Gevgelija to Greece, and from the area of Struga to Albania.The women are coming mainly from the Republic of Moldova, Romaniaand Ukraine. The number of Bulgarian women has decreased and it isexpected to become even smaller with the introduction of a Shengen visa 118for Bulgaria. Because of the change in the situation in Kosovo – new legislationon trafficking, raids on clubs and more police actions against traffickers –there is reportedly a new pattern emerging of removing trafficked womenfrom Kosovo to FYR Macedonia.117.UNPREDEP-United Nations Preventive Deployment and UNPROFOR - United NationsProtection Force; two missions present in FYR Macedonia until 1999, when KFOR- KosovoForce - arrived in Kosovo and Macedonia.118.Visas which permit entry to all the countries of the European Union which signed theShengen Agreement.107
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