Women in the Clutches of Organized Crime

Keywords: South Eastern Europe, gender, sex, human rights, media content, print

“Everything you see is for sale,” the thickset doorman of a Sarajevo night club tells the patrons even before they enter. This is his way of making the club’s purpose immediately clear-this is not a strip bar where people come to watch pretty girls dance, this is where pleasure girls are sold.

In Sarajevo alone there are about forty such clubs, and, according to international police, a total of 260 clubs of this sort have opened in Bosnia in the past two years…..
(by Merima Spahic – BETA – MDI, 2002)

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