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SUBJECT: KOSOVO: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION PART TWO OF TWO 
 
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¶48. (SBU) Part Two of Post's submission for the Eighth Annual 
Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report follows. 
 
¶49. (SBU) Question 28(I): Kosovo has been unable to enter 
into formal extradition treaties because it lacked status as 
a sovereign state, but that may change with its new 
independent status.  Nevertheless, UNMIK has been able to 
enter into international agreements to transfer Kosovars to 
other countries on a case-by-case basis, and is able to 
extradite foreign nationals under UN Security Council 
Resolution 1244.  According to UNMIK, there have been nine 
cases of extradition to foreign countries, involving 12 
people, since the end of the conflict in 1999. 
 
¶50. (SBU) Question 28(J): Post is unaware of any evidence of 
government involvement in or tolerance of trafficking on a 
local or institutional level.  Nevertheless, KPS THBS has 
reported that foreign trafficking victims often arrive in 
Kosovo with valid documents and employment contracts 
registered by local attorneys and stamped by municipal 
authorities.  They believe the attorneys and local 
authorities may be aware that these victims are being 
trafficked into Kosovo to work as prostitutes, despite the 
fact that the traffickers are asking them to draft and 
register employment contracts stating they will work as 
waitresses or dancers. 
 
¶51. (SBU) Question 28(K): Post has found no evidence of 
government officials being involved in trafficking during 
this reporting period.  Nevertheless, the government is aware 
that susceptibility to corruption is a problem in Kosovo due 
in particular to the low salaries local law enforcement 
officials receive.  In 2006, the government established three 
bodies whose mandates include anti-corruption work: the 
Police Inspectorate of Kosovo (PIK), the Kosovo Special 
Prosecutors' Office (KSPO) and the Kosovo Anti-Corruption 
Agency.  (See paragraph 20.)  They are fledgling 
institutions, and it is too early to assess their efficacy. 
 
¶52. (SBU) Question 28(L): Kosovo does not contribute troops 
to international peacekeeping operations. 
 
¶53. (SBU) Question 28(M): Post has not found any evidence, 
anecdotal or otherwise, of a child sex tourism problem in 
Kosovo. 
 
Protection and Assistance to Victims 
 
¶54. (SBU) Question 29(A): Protection and assistance to 
trafficking victims are governed by the Standard Operating 
Procedures (SOPs) that the Kosovo government, UNMIK, 
international organizations and NGOs developed for foreign 
and local victims in 2004 and 2006, respectively.  Under the 
SOPs for foreign victims, when police or social workers 
suspect that someone is a trafficking victim, a KPS THBS 
officer must fill out a basic data form and call a victims, 
advocate from the Ministry of Justice Victims' Assistance and 
Advocacy Unit (VAAU).  Victims' advocates assist all 
trafficking victims with legal advice and support from 
identification through reintegration.  Victims, advocates 
also give victims information on medical and psychosocial 
support services available to them.  In the case of minors, 
social workers from the MLSW's Center for Social Work (CSW) 
must be present for any questioning of the victim.  They 
assist from identification through reintegration.  If police 
determine that the person is a victim of trafficking and the 
 
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victim agrees, they will place him or her in the MOJ-run 
Interim Security Facility (ISF).  If the victim is a minor, 
police must seek agreement from a representative of the 
Center for Social Work (CSW).  On the second or third day, 
IOM discusses repatriation options with the victim.  At that 
point, unless police have determined that the victim is at 
high risk for physical harm from his or her traffickers, he 
or she will normally go to a local NGO shelter to await 
repatriation or social reintegration within Kosovo. 
 
¶55. (SBU) All trafficking victims are accorded shelter and 
access to legal, medical and psychological services.  Most 
medical and psychological services are provided through the 
shelters.  Foreign victims who wish to return to their 
countries of origin also have a right to IOM repatriation 
assistance. 
 
¶56. (SBU) Question 29(B): Foreign victims have the same 
access to care as domestic trafficking victims.  The only 
government-run facility dedicated to trafficking victims is 
the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),s Interim Security Facility 
(ISF), which is funded by Kosovo's central budget and 
supervised by Ministry of Justice Victims, Assistance and 
Advocacy Unit (VAAU) staff.  It provides temporary shelter, 
medical care, clothing, pocket money, counseling, educational 
assistance, recreational activities, and other services to 
victims while they consider whether to be repatriated or wait 
to testify against traffickers in criminal proceedings.  The 
average stay in the ISF is three nights and only those 
victims that the KPS THBS believes are at high risk for 
retaliation by their traffickers would normally stay longer. 
Victims are generally not permitted to stay in the ISF for 
more than six months.  The MOJ reports that 30 victims stayed 
there, including 16 foreigners.  The MOJ reported that it 
spent 25,000 euros (38,000 dollars) on the ISF in 2007. 
 
¶57. (SBU) Aside from the ISF, the government relies on NGOs 
to operate shelters and provide services to trafficking 
victims.  These facilities provide the same basic services as 
the ISF, but they do not provide the same high level of 
security.  Hope and Homes for Children (HHC), which receives 
some government funding, operates one shelter and an assisted 
living project for trafficking victims, while the Center for 
Protection and Prevention of Victims of Trafficking in Human 
Beings (PVPT), which currently receives no government 
funding, struggles to operate one shelter that assists 
foreign victims of trafficking (see paragraphs 26-28). 
Although it is not desirable because of the special needs of 
trafficking victims, domestic violence shelters also 
occasionally accept trafficking victims on an emergency 
basis.  These shelters usually assist victims for no more 
than six months.  There are no long-term, medium security 
shelters dedicated to trafficking victims. 
 
¶58. (SBU) The long-term future of the private shelters is in 
doubt.  PVPT was forced to close its doors during the 
reporting period due to funding shortfalls, and HHC 
experienced similar problems, resulting in its Pristina 
shelter closing temporarily during the reporting period and 
its Prizren shelter closing permanently.  PVPT,s funding 
comes from foreign donors, while HHC used to rely partly on 
its British parent by the same name, but has since spun-off 
and lost that funding.  HHC is now heavily reliant on the 
Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (MLSW), which gave it 
191,970 euros (282,030 dollars) in 2007.  Nevertheless, it is 
important to note that no comprehensive assessment of 
shelters has been conducted to determine whether the private 
shelters are efficient and whether they are all necessary. 
 
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¶59. (SBU) During calendar year 2007, PVPT assisted 16 
trafficking victims, Hope and Homes for Children, eight, and 
the MOJ-run ISF, 30.  For the same period, CRS reported that 
Women Wellness Center in Peja assisted three victims, Liria 
in Gjilan, four, Center for Protection of Women and Children, 
three, and Safe House Gjakova, eight.  However, CRS notes 
that some victims stay in more than one shelter, which means 
that simply adding up the aforementioned numbers will not 
result in an accurate count of the total number of victims 
who received shelter in Kosovo in 2007.  Although data 
collection is improving, these figures should not be 
considered authoritative. 
 
¶60. (SBU) Question 29(C): In addition to limited funding for 
Hope and Homes (see paragraphs 57 and 58), the MLSW funds, in 
part, shelters focusing on domestic trafficking victims.  In 
calendar year 2007, it donated 60,374 euros (89,565 dollars) 
to six shelters for minors that housed victims of 
trafficking.  In several cities, the municipalities provide 
rent-free space to house shelters.  The Ministry of Justice 
has funded NGOs providing assistance to trafficking victims 
in the past, but it did not do so during the reporting 
period. 
 
¶61. (SBU) Question 29(D): Law enforcement officers and social 
services personnel in Kosovo receive training on identifying 
possible victims of trafficking.  As soon as they encounter a 
possible victim of trafficking, they follow Kosovo,s 
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), which the Kosovo 
government, UNMIK, international organizations and NGOs 
developed for foreign and local victims in 2004 and 2006, 
respectively.  Unless the potential victim is an adult and 
does not wish to speak to police, KPS THBS interviews him or 
her and fills out a basic data form, which is designed to 
capture relevant information one time to prevent the victim 
from being re-victimized by numerous interrogations.  KPS 
THBS then calls a victims, advocate from the Ministry of 
Justice Victims' Assistance and Advocacy Unit (VAAU) to 
assists the victims with legal advice and support.  The 
victims, advocate remains with the victim from 
identification through reintegration.  In the case of a minor 
victim, KPS THBS also calls a social worker from them Center 
for Social Work (CSW).  If the victim consents, he or she 
goes to the MOJ-run Interim Security Facility (ISF).  If the 
victim is a minor, police must obtain the consent of a 
representative of the Center for Social Work (CSW) to place 
him or her in the ISF.  On the second or third day, CSW 
discusses reintegration options with the victim.  At that 
point, if police have not determined that the victim is at a 
high risk for physical harm by her traffickers, he or she may 
return home or go to a local NGO shelter.  CSW assists him or 
her with social reintegration services.  If an adult does not 
wish to speak to police, a CSW social worker will fill out 
the basic data form and coordinate his or her reintegration 
services.  See paragraph 54 for information on the SOPs for 
foreign victims of trafficking, which differ slightly form 
those for internal victims. 
 
¶62. (SBU) In calendar year 2007, KPS referred 28 victims for 
assistance and the CSW referred 17 internal victims and one 
international victim.  All of the victims the CSW referred 
were minors. 
 
¶63. (SBU) Question 29(E): Kosovo does not have legalized 
prostitution. 
 
¶64. (SBU) Question 29(F): According to IOM and others 
 
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involved in counter-trafficking work in Kosovo, victims, 
rights are generally respected.  Nevertheless, some problems 
have been reported.  IOM says that some victims are jailed or 
deported.  According to IOM, the jail terms depend on the 
penal code but may be one month or more.  Post believes these 
incidents are the result of women refusing to admit to KPS 
THBS that they are trafficking victims.  Since prostitution 
is illegal and constitutes grounds for deportation, KPS THBS 
say they have little choice when victims are caught for 
prostitution and vehemently deny being victims. 
 
¶65. (SBU) The Prime Minister,s Advisory Office for Good 
Governance (AOGG) reported in July 2007 that the United 
Nations Development Fund (UNDP) Women,s Safety and Security 
Initiative (WSSI), in cooperation with KPS THBS, created 
private interview rooms in police stations in Pristina, Peja, 
Prizren, Gjilan, Ferizaj and Mitrovica.  This was a direct 
response to the problems reported of victims who wished to 
remain anonymous coming into contact with their traffickers 
in courts due to lax security procedures and victims not 
being permitted to give statements in private due to the lack 
of private interview rooms in police stations. 
 
¶66. (SBU) Question 29(G): The VAAU reports that victims are 
not pressured to assist in investigation and prosecution of 
traffickers, but that systems are in place to allow them to 
make recorded statements with their faces hidden and voices 
disguised.  Victims, advocates are with them from 
identification through reintegration and explain their rights 
every step of the way.  Between April 1 and December 31, 
2007, one victim gave grudging assistance in the 
investigation and prosecution of her traffickers, while 
another gave testimony that was false, apparently because she 
was a recruiter. 
 
¶67. (SBU) Victims, as injured parties, may seek damages in 
criminal trials and may pursue their claims in civil 
litigation.  In addition, under Kosovo law, if the court 
orders confiscation of material benefit in a criminal case, 
injured parties may be entitled to seek compensation from the 
confiscated property.  According to IOM, no one impedes 
victims, rights to such legal redress.  Victims who are 
material witnesses in court cases against former employers 
are permitted to obtain other employment or leave the country 
provided they share their contact details with the court. 
 
¶68. (SBU) Question 29(H): The government is able to provide 
24-hour protection of limited duration to victims and to 
allow them to give anonymous testimony if they decide to 
become witnesses in cases against their traffickers through 
video conferencing technology that allows for visual and 
voice alteration.  KPS THBS officers do risk assessments of 
all trafficking victims.  They refer the high-risk victims to 
the Ministry of Justice-run Interim Security Facility (ISF), 
a high security shelter that offers 24-hour protection but 
does not allow victims to come and go as they please.  They 
refer the low- and medium-risk victims to private shelters, 
which allow some freedom of movement and are generally more 
conducive to longer stays and reintegration.  ISF reported 
that 30 victims received shelter services in their facility 
during the reporting period, while PVPT said it assisted 16 
victims and Hopes and Homes for Children said it assisted 
eight.  CRS said the Women Wellness Center in Peja assisted 
three victims, Liria in Gjilan, four, Center for Protection 
of Women and Children, three, and Safe House Gjakova, eight. 
 
¶69. (SBU) Minors may be sent to the ISF or a shelter for 
minors depending on their risk level, reintegrated with their 
 
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families, or placed in foster-care if they come from abusive 
families.  Local Centers for Social Work (CSW) handle the 
minors, cases, and report directly to the Ministry of Labor 
and Social Welfare.  While the foster care option exists, 
UNICEF complained that it is mainly used for young children 
and not for adolescents and victims of trafficking. 
 
¶70. (SBU) The government provides some reintegration 
assistance, primarily through the Ministry of Labor and 
Social Welfare or in cooperation with international 
organizations and NGOs.  However, these services are limited 
and are mostly offered through the shelters.  They include 
health care, counseling, education, clothing, pocket money 
and employment assistance.  The MLSW assisted 18 local child 
victims of trafficking and two international victims in 
calendar year 2007.  See paragraphs 59 and 68 for the 
approximate number of victims assisted through shelters. 
 
¶71. (SBU) Question 29(I): The government trains officials and 
anti-trafficking partners on recognizing trafficking and 
providing assistance to victims, including minors, mostly in 
cooperation with its anti-trafficking partners in the NGO and 
international organization communities.  Examples of such 
trainings during the reporting period include a course on the 
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for 33 people from the 
KPS, Centers for Social Work, MOJ Victims Advocacy and 
Assistance Unit (VAAU) and local NGOs, and a MEST-organized 
training on general training on trafficking for teachers 
Kosovo-wide.  See paragraphs 44 and 45 for information on KPS 
and Kosovo Judicial Institute training. 
 
¶72. (SBU) Kosovo was not a sovereign state during most of the 
reporting period, and therefore did not have embassies and 
consulates.  (Note: As discussed above, Kosovo declared its 
independence on February 17, 2008, a move that was recognized 
by the United States.) 
 
¶73. (SBU) Question 29(J): The VAAU reports that the 
government does provide assistance to repatriated Kosovars 
who are trafficking victims.  If they are placed in a 
shelter, they benefit from the same services available to 
victims identified in Kosovo.  IOM reports that there is, 
however, no other support for victims once they leave the 
shelter.  In the case of minors, social workers are involved 
with family mediation and school re-insertion and may point 
victims in the direction of other assistance. 
 
¶74. (SBU) Question 29(K): While many international 
organizations and NGOs work on the trafficking issue, IOM is 
the only one working directly with victims.  Hope and Homes 
for Children and PVPT were originally international NGOs, but 
have since spun off and become local NGOs. 
 
¶75. (SBU) For foreign victims, IOM provides: case screening 
and management, psycho-social counseling inside shelters or 
referrals for outside psychiatric and psychological 
assistance, medical assistance, in-depth needs assessments, 
travel arrangements, travel documents for victims whose 
passports have been confiscated by traffickers, travel 
supplies and reinstallation grants, organization of safe 
transportation to departure points (in cooperation with UNMIK 
and based on medical and security concerns), medical and 
accompanied minor escorts when necessary, and coordination 
with receiving IOM mission.  For local victims, it provides: 
short- and medium-term sheltering in preparation for family 
reunification or independent living, family mediation (in 
cooperation with social workers when victims are minors), 
psychological counseling and psychiatric assistance, 
 
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reintegration or emergency grants, material support for 
victims and/or families, housing and rental support, access 
to education, education-related expenses, vocational 
training, job placement (including for family members), 
awareness-raising and self-improvement activities, 
facilitation of relocation out of Kosovo for witnesses and 
their families, and monitoring and follow-up. 
 
¶76. (SBU) IOM reports good cooperation with the government, 
but it did not receive any financial assistance from 
government sources for its work with trafficking victims 
during the reporting period. 
 
Prevention 
 
¶77. (SBU) Question 30(A): The government and UNMIK 
acknowledge that trafficking in persons is a problem in 
Kosovo, and they are working to address the issue. 
 
¶78. (SBU) Question 30(B):  In July 2007, the Prime Minister 
approved an initiative declaring October to be the month of 
an awareness campaign against human trafficking.  The Prime 
Minister,s Advisory Office for Good Governance (AOGG) took 
the lead in organizing this initiative, and several 
governmental components contributed to it.  Members of the 
KPS THBS participated in several roundtables and panel 
discussions devoted to this subject.  In addition, the 
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) took 
part in a regional project, &Safe Environment for 
Children,8 to help parents prevent their children from 
falling victim to human trafficking.  The Ministry of Culture 
sponsored five regional discussions aimed at preventing 
trafficking, and held five concerts and a conference on the 
topic of the role of education in preventing trafficking. 
Other organizations also sponsored events and media campaigns 
aimed at prevention.  This initiative and many of the 
programs conducted throughout the month received extensive 
media coverage. 
 
¶79.  (SBU) Notwithstanding the anti-trafficking month, most 
anti-trafficking information and education campaigns during 
the reporting period were run by international organizations 
and NGOs with the government's support and under the auspices 
of the Kosovo Action Plan (KAP).  Examples include 
OSCE-sponsored television debates aimed at raising awareness 
of internal trafficking, mechanisms for reporting it and 
assistance available to victims; the MEST,s inclusion of an 
anti-trafficking module in an elective subject called 
&Skills for Life8 in Kosovo,s public schools; a 
Partnership against Trafficking in Human Beings Project 
(PATH),s awards contest for journalists, best stories on 
trafficking issues; and a Save the Children  research report 
entitled &Children Speak Out,8 which provided information 
on the environment in which highly vulnerable children are 
raised and which should help counter-trafficking officials 
tailor future messages to them. Although the PATH Project is 
currently finalizing a progress report on the activities 
envisaged in the KAP, no assessments have been conducted on 
the information and education campaigns, success or the size 
of the audiences they reached. 
 
¶80. (SBU) Question 30(C): There is good cooperation on the 
trafficking issue among government officials, NGOs, 
international organizations and other elements of civil 
society in Kosovo.  They regularly consult on developing and 
implementing trafficking-related protocols, such as the 
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for dealing with victims 
of trafficking.  They also cooperate very closely on 
 
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providing assistance to victims.  Aside from the Interim 
Security Facility (ISF) for high-risk trafficking victims, 
all shelters are managed by local NGOs and partially funded 
by the MLSW.  Moreover, NGOs and international organizations 
are participating in drafting of the new KAP and serve on the 
Inter-Ministerial Working Group on Trafficking Issues, which 
is responsible for designing, implementing and monitoring the 
new KAP. 
 
¶81. (SBU) Question 30(D): KPS monitors immigration patterns 
for evidence of trafficking.  Foreigners staying in Kosovo 
more than 90 days are required to register with the Office of 
Foreign Registration (OFR) unless they are employees of KFOR, 
international organizations or foreign liaison offices.  KPS 
THBS coordinates closely with the OFR to identify potential 
trafficking victims and subsequently interview them.  When 
they do bar/restaurant checks, KPS THBS officers particularly 
look for women and girls that have been classified as at-risk 
through OFR records checks. 
 
¶82. (SBU) KPS Border/Boundary Police officers also report 
that they routinely look for potential victims of trafficking 
entering Kosovo's border and boundary gates and the Pristina 
Airport.  When they suspect a woman or girl may be a victim 
or potential victim of trafficking, they separate her from 
others with whom she is traveling in order to question her, 
warn her of the risks of trafficking and give her information 
on what to do if she becomes a victim of trafficking.  Border 
police cooperate closely with KPS THBS. 
 
¶83. (SBU) KPS THBS says it is also monitoring emigration 
patterns to try to understand possible criminal networks 
trafficking women and girls from Kosovo to other European 
countries.  It works closely with Border/Boundary Police on 
this. 
 
¶84. (SBU) Question 30(E): The national coordinator for 
counter-trafficking in the Prime Minister's Advisory Office 
for Good Governance (AOGG) coordinates communication among 
counter-trafficking actors in Kosovo, including the relevant 
ministries, NGOs and international organizations.  The 
national counter-trafficking coordinator has a secretariat 
and chairs an inter-ministerial working group on 
counter-trafficking, which will design, implement and monitor 
the new Kosovo Action Plan (KAP) on trafficking.  There are 
also sub-working groups on prevention, protection, 
prosecution and trafficking in children. 
 
¶85. (SBU) The government does not have a public corruption 
task force, but it established the Kosovo Anti-corruption 
Agency and the Police Inspectorate of Kosovo (PIK) in July 
2006, and the Kosovo Special Prosecutors' Office (KSPO) in 
September 2006 (see paragraphs 20 and 51).  Since they are 
fledgling institutions, it is too soon to assess their 
efficacy. 
 
¶86. (SBU) Question 30(F): The Kosovo Action Plan to Combat 
Trafficking in Persons (KAP), which was adopted in May 2005 
and widely disseminated and publicized, expired in December 
¶2007.  Plans are underway for a successor KAP.  All relevant 
ministries, international organizations, NGOs and civil 
society representatives will participate in the process. 
¶87. (SBU) Question 30(G): Between April 1, 2007 and January 
21, 2008, the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) arrested 13 people 
for prostitution and four for facilitating prostitution. 
They also conducted 928 searches of premises suspected of 
prostitution and/or trafficking in persons, 45 of which were 
closed as a result.  In January 2008, the KPS THBS and the 
 
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Kosovo Special Prosecutors Office (KSPO) also worked together 
to gather evidence to file the first ever indictment charging 
a client, sending a powerful signal to other would-be clients 
that they may be next. 
 
¶88. (SBU) In January 2007, the national counter-trafficking 
coordinator sent a memorandum to the prime minister on bars 
suspected of trafficking in persons, prostitution and other 
criminal activities and suggested that these bars be off 
limits to senior officials working in Kosovo government 
institutions.  The KPS THBS compiled this list and 
distributed it to government offices every month during the 
reporting period.  UNMIK distributes a similar list of 
off-limits bars for its officials.  Most international 
liaison officers and KFOR report that they require their 
employees to abide by the list. 
 
¶89. (SBU) In January 2008, a Kosovo Special Prosecutors 
Office (KSPO) prosecutor who focuses on trafficking in 
persons filed a groundbreaking indictment charging three 
Kosovar Albanian men, including one client, and three 
Moldovan women for human trafficking, facilitating 
prostitution and money laundering.  It was the first 
indictment ever in Kosovo to charge a client, to charge 
Moldovan women as recruiters and to include money laundering 
in a human trafficking case.  The KSPO hopes it will serve as 
a model for future indictments and that, if successful, will 
send a powerful message to clients that they are not beyond 
the reach of the law. 
 
¶90. (SBU) Question 30(H): N/A. 
 
¶91. (SBU) Question 30(I): N/A 
 
¶92. (SBU) Post's point of contact on TIP matters is POLOFF 
Tracey Thornton, 381-38-5959-3110, 377-44-502-107 (mobile), 
ThorntonTR@state.gov. 
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