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WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING
According to the Combatting Human Trafficking Act, human trafficking is the enlisting, transportation, concealing or receiving people, irrespective of their will by force, kidnapping, illegal lack of freedom, fraud, corruption, power abuse with a dependent individual or through giving, receiving or promissing benefits so that he/she can receive the individual's agreement so that he/she can be forcibly involved in exploitation.
Human trafficking is the illegal trade with human beings aiming at labour and sexual exploitation. The victims are turned into slaves and are often forced to work for minimal or no payment at all.
Human trafficking is one of the most serious forms of violation of the basic human rights!
Human trafficking is the contemporary form of slavery.
Do not allow this to happen to you!
Be informed!
THIS COULD HAPPEN TO:
This could happen to anybody - man, woman, child. It may happen to the young people who have decided to travel, to work, to study, as well as to the elder men and women looking for working opportunities who leave for other cities or countries in search of a job.
WHO IS MOST VULNERABLE
* The young people - because of the lack of experience and because of their desire to travel, to try different opportunities, to arrange their lives;
* Adolescent girls and children without parents;
* Mature people who still haven't reached the age for pension, but they lack working opportunities and look for these opportunities for better job condition in other parts of the country and especially ion other countries.
* The people – young and adukts, men and women, pressed by the economic factor. Poverty and the lack of opportunities for personal and professional fullfilment of factors which decrease the sensitivity towards the risk and make people an easy target for abuse.
WHAT ARE THE USUAL WAYS IN WHICH IT HAPPENS
* Through agencies for recruiting people for working in the country or abroad, mediators of student brigades.
* Through job offers.
* Through acquaintances/relatives/friends and organized trips - especially abroad.
* Through organizing language and qualification courses in Bulgaria and abroad.
* Through organizing meetings thorough websites for marriage via Internet.
* Through creating emotional dependence – the trafficant creates a close relationship with the girl and takes advantage of her trust and takes her out of the city or the country.
IN BULGARIA…
*Bulgaria is still a serious source of illegal human trafficking.
*According to the data of NGOs, around 10 000 Bulgarian girls around the world are forced to work as prostitutes.
*The age rate of the victims is decreasing.
*Every fifth victim of traffic is sold by relatives, friends, husbands…
*The procurer and the trafficants carefully select their victims - they have to be good looking, to experience financial difficulties.
*The lack of information is among the major factors for Bulgaria to be one of the first countries in Europe as far as women and children trafficking is concerned.
IMPORTANT TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
112
National telephone line for emergency calls
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0 800 186 76
National telephone line for people who have experienced violence
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116 111
National telephone line for children who have experienced violence
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02 / 939 47 77
International Migration Organization
BEFORE YOU LEAVE…
1.Study carefully the firm/university/the individual to which you are going;
2.Before you leave, you have to arange foryour relatives and friends to have:
*your picture and a copy of your passport;
*the telephone and your address abroad;
*the telephone and the address of the person/organization/work provider/the university to which you are going;
*the contact details of the embassy in the target country;
*copy of the job contract.
3.Before you leave you must discuss with relatives and firends and choose a "panic signal" which can be used if you are in trouble or if your conversations are being tapped;
4.When you agree on working abroad, you should sign a prior contract in which it is stated: who is your work provider; where and what kind of work are you supposed to do; the work/payment/living conditions; the contract's expiry date.
5. It is useful to know a few basic phrases in the language of the country you are to go to.
6. To take with you the contact details of the Bulgarian embassy in the country to which you are going. To keep it in a safe place and to know that when you feel somekind of threat, you can always contact them.
7. You must neven entrust your documents with anybody.
 Publishes - Center maria – Gorna Oryahovitsa
This document has been published with the financial assistence of FM of EIP under the project "Prevention - effective counteraction agains women and children trafficking" (Contract № PО3-13-00). The whole responsibility for the documents' content is held by Association "Center Maria" and under no circumstances this doccument states the official attitude of FM of EIP and the Contract organ.
  
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