The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina on 15 March 2022 launched its latest report titled “Ensuring Justice for Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings: Response of the Criminal Justice System in BiH, with recommendations” in Sarajevo and online.
The report examines the abilities of the national criminal justice system to prosecute human trafficking effectively, sanction those responsible for it adequately, treat victims with dignity while protecting them from harmful consequences of their involvement in criminal proceedings and facilitate victims’ right to seek compensation from offenders.
“The OSCE Mission to BiH has been assisting authorities in the country in implementing their commitments to combat human trafficking through prevention, protection of victims and prosecution of those who facilitate or commit the crime. The report we present today, in combination with other anti-trafficking activities that the Mission has been conducting, represents our continuous effort to help authorities in BiH improve their anti-trafficking response and offers targeted recommendations,” said Kathleen Kavalec, Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH.
“Continual research and analyses of all anti-trafficking activities are very important in order for the societal responses to that phenomenon to be adequately planned and implemented. In that sense, the research of criminal justice responses to trafficking in human beings and recommendations provided to judicial authorities are especially important in order for the prosecution of traffickers to be as successful as possible, as well as for the protection of victims of trafficking in human beings to be strengthened. We thank the OSCE for its constant support to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the fight against trafficking in human beings, and especially for its constant monitoring of cases of trafficking in human beings, analysis of those cases and for recommendations aimed at improving the situation in that area.” said Samir Rizvo, Assistant BiH Minister of Security and State Coordinator for Trafficking in Human Beings.
The report is available on the following link
