BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 350 Fifth Ave 34 th Floor New York, N.Y. 10118-3299 http://www.hrw.org (212) 290-4700 Vol. 14, No. 9 (D) – November 2002 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 Hundreds of nightclubs dot the landscape throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina. Some contain trafficked women and girls trapped in debt bondage. (c) Human Rights Watch HOPES BETRAYED: Trafficking of Women and Girls to Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina for Forced Prostitution 1630 Connecticut Ave, N.W., Suite 500 2nd Floor, 2-12 Pentonville Road 15 Rue Van Campenhout Washington, DC 20009 London N1 9HF, UK 1000 Brussels, Belgium TEL (202) 612-4321 TEL: (44 20) 7713 1995 TEL (32 2) 732-2009 FAX (202) 612-4333 FAX: (44 20) 7713 1800 FAX (32 2) 732-0471 E-mail:
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[email protected] November 2002 Volume 14 No. 9 (D) BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA HOPES BETRAYED: Trafficking of Women and Girls to Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina for Forced Prostitution I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY......................................................................................................................................................4 II. KEY RECOMMENDATIONS...............................................................................................................................................7 To the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina......................................................................................................................7 To the United Nations..............................................................................................................................................................8 To the U.N.