Victims of domestic exploitation and forced prostitution in Shkoder lack support to reintegrate, while the police, prosecutors, and courts fail to punish the perpetrators.
But soon after they arrived, he sold her off to traffickers for thousand leks approximately 3, euros and forced her into prostitution. Now, at age 45, she says that her life was stolen at only 20 years old, when she was ripped away from home and her family, who had disapproved of her relationship. I could not do anything. After two years in Greece, the traffickers sold her to others in Italy, where she worked for 13 years until she suffered an accident, which left her with a metal rod in her foot.
After the accident she returned to Shkoder, but her circumstances did not change. She told BIRN that her parents had passed away, and her brother had ceased all communication with her.
In poor living conditions, she resumed sex work. Albania has a tragic history of human trafficking of young women to be exploited for prostitution, which boomed immediately after the fall of the communist dictatorship until the end of As BIRN found in a previous investigation , a great number of victims of forced prostitution face difficulties to be re-integrated in society and thus return to prostitution.
A report by Albanian Police states that at least 5, women and girls were victims of sex trafficking between and According to this report, around 22 per cent were minors when trafficked. Although the type of trafficking that G. And the majority of those accused of forcing women into prostitution end up with suspended sentences.
