Comparative View of the Problem with Human Trafficking  In the Balkan Countries

Elena IVANOVA

Elena IVANOVA Univesity Goce Delchev- Shtip, Faculty of Law, Macedonia

Abstract

The liberalization of gender understanding and relations, liberation of sexuality from the constraints of primitivism and traditionalism has lead to a increase in prostitution as socio-pathological phenomenon that inevitably stimulates the emergence of the crime of human trafficking. Particularly disturbing is the emergence of a new dimension of human trafficking – the trafficking of minors. We can freely say that trade with minors is developing industry.

Analyzing the legal structure of the matter in the Balkan countries, Macedonia has a leading position among its neighbors, primarily with stringent punishments for offenders, as well as separate engagement in combating the trafficking of minors. Permanent improvement of the legislation being enacted in the Balkans, involved in combating human trafficking is a necessity derived from the liveliness of the matter and the constant development of new forms of the crime, which the international scene is also up following. So in a way of understanding the problems that are occurring in the region, we must start with the basics – legislation. It is constantly being reformed, in a way of escalation of prescribed sentences and enrichment of the legal description, and can make a solid foundation for productive fight against crime.

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Elena IVANOVA, Univesity Goce Delchev- Shtip, Faculty of Law, Macedonia

Faculty of Law, University "Goce Delcev"- Shtip, Macedonia

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