2004

WOMEN DEPUTIES MEET WITH 40 WOMEN OF THE NORTHEASTERN PARTS OF THE COUNTRY
February 18, 2004 – (Parlament.al – Albania) The deputy speaker of the Assembly of Albania, Makbule Çeço, together with the Chairman and vice-chairman of the Subcommittee "For women", respectively the ladies, Fatbardha Shabani and Marjeta Zaçe, received in a meeting, in one of the rooms of the Assembly, about 40 women from the north-eastern parts of the country.

TRAFFICKERS RISK DEATH ON ALBANIA’S HIGH SEAS
February 4, 2004 – (IWPR – Albania) Lack of funds, surveillance equipment and official corruption hamper task of controlling the illegal trade in people and drugs.
At dawn, an ageing Chinese diving ship, bought by the Albanian navy for use as a patrol vessel, scours the coastline off the depressed port of Vlora in southern Albania, searching for human traffickers.


2003

FOR ALBANIANS, IT'S COME TO THIS: A SON FOR A TV
November 13, 2003 – (NYT) Fatmira Bonjaku's husband is in jail, accused by the police of selling their 3-year-old son to an Italian man in return for the television set that six other children watch in the family's dimly lighted room. The police also say her husband had plans to sell their newest born, whom she is breast feeding.

TRADING IN MISERY
September 15, 2003 – (IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, No. 460) Tens of thousands of Eastern European women are falling victim to the Balkan sex trade.

THE SITUATION OF WOMEN WRITERS IN ALBANIA
March 6, 2003 - (ENAWA - Albania) This society has been very conservative and oppressive towards women throughout its history, which is filled with periods of Turkish occupation and characterized by a mixture of Oriental, Balkan, and Mediterranean cultures. These traditional cultures and their prejudices, stronger than in other Balkan countries, totally excluded women from all sorts of social or political life.

PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY, CUSTOMARY LAW, HUMAN TRAFFICKING ADDRESSED, AS ALBANIA RESPONDS TO WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE
January 24, 2003 – (UN Press) Although Albania’s Constitutional Court had not yet interpreted the principle of equality as defined by the Women’s Anti-Discrimination Convention, the country’s laws did not discriminate, the representative of Albania told the Convention’s monitoring body this morning.

2001

TRAFFICKING IN ALBANIA (in Russian)
April 17, 2001 – (ICCM) International Catholic Committee on Migration and Save the Children have completed the new study on trafficking of women and children through Albania to countries of Western Europe.

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