Important information about Trafficking in human beings
What is trafficking in human beings?
Human trafficking is a serious social problem because it poses an enormous threat to fundamental human rights – right to life, to free choice, to free movement… Human trafficking as a phenomenon completely disregards any human rights.
Programmes
Association „Novi put“ carries out its activities through the following programmes:
The goals, mission, vision
Operational and registered at BiH level since 2010, „Novi put“ has been focused on the prevention of trafficking in human beings and actively fighting against gender-based violence, violence against children, (including child pornography, and paedophilia), recognaising strong interaction between the problems listed. It is the only CSO running a free-of-charge counselling centre in the Herzegovina region for children victims of all forms of abuse. „Novi put“ also runs a phone and internet Help Line. Recognaising multiple vulnerabilities affecting their target group and beneficiaries, „Novi put“ aims to outline the mutual connection between the topics and necessity to provide holistic response and support to the victims, and women and children at risk.
About Us
„Novi put” is a member of the La Strada International NGO Platform and European NGOs Platform Against Trafficking, Exploitation and Slavery, (ENPATES) and it has been selected as the partner NGO by the B&H Ministry of Security, member of the core State Anti-trafficking Team. The anti-trafficking endeavors of Novi put resulted in a signed Memorandum on Joint Cooperation with the B&H Min. of Security. Novi put participate in drafting and reviewing all the relevant State Action Plans and Strategies aimed at prevention of human trafficking, child pornography and paedophilia.
Due to the efforts in combating trafficking in human beings “Novi put” was selected as the partner NGO of the B&H Ministry of Security and one of the members of the core Regional Monitoring Team for anti-trafficking which resulted in a signed Memorandum on Joint Cooperation.
Novi put has participated in drafting and reviewing all the relevant State Action Plans and Strategies aimed at prevention of human trafficking, child pornography and paedophilia. Currently, Novi put is the only NGO in the Region of Herzegovina that has been focused on the prevention of human trafficking and one of the few in B&H.
B&H has been a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, children, and persons with developmental disabilities who have been subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor both in B&H and in Europe. Continuous lack of proper anti-trafficking actions by the Government of B&H resulted that in the 2014 TiP Report B&H was degraded to the Tier 2 Watch List of „Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards“. B&H population has been becoming more and more vulnerable to various forms of exploitation and lack of continuous awareness raising among categories especially vulnerable to THB for sexual exploitation such as underage girls, has resulted in increase of underage victims of sexual exploitation. Due to a very bad economic situation in the country, increasing poverty and corruption, number of victims of labor exploitation has also significantly grown. Since 2014 until December 2015 more than 150.000 young people left the country looking for employment opportunities in abroad and unfortunately many of them ended up as victims of sexual and labor exploitation.
Due to a complex organisation of the State and various levels of authorities, civil society organisations are working on grass-root prevention of human trafficking, child pornography and paedophilia.
