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For example, during the author's tenure in Belgrade, Serbia, and Montenegro, a brothel was raided and trafficked women were placed in jail, rather than the new shelter for trafficked persons, on the very same day that a high-level regional meeting took place in frank gehry jewelry between ministries and Stability Pact, UN, and OSCE officials to discuss follow up victim protection mechanisms for the new shelter. There seemed to be no communication between those making the decisions to adopt new laws and practices and those carrying them out in the field, and there was an inability or unwillingness to train these low-level government employees.

Despite a growing awareness that peacekeeping forces and humanitarian workers regularly and knowingly obtain the services of trafficked women and sometimes even engage in or aid and abet trafficking, governments have failed to publicly address this issue. Trafficked women in Bosnia, for instance, report that approximately 30 percent of their clients are internationals.63 Countries that had never before been countries of destination began receiving trafficked women when peacekeepers and international aid workers moved into Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo.64 Neighboring countries quickly became countries of paloma picasso jewelry and origin. While the use of trafficked women by international workers might constitute only a fraction of the total number of trafficked women and the fraction of those trafficked by international workers is even less, the participation of international humanitarian workers and peacekeeping forces in trafficking conveys a powerful symbolic message to local authorities and traffickers. The message is this: governments working to "democratize" developing countries do not really care about eradicating trafficking.

For years international organizations operating in the Balkans have been unwilling to determine how they can best prevent their employees from frequenting brothels known to harbor trafficked women. In recent years, when it has become clear that most brothels in the Balkans, for instance, do contain trafficked women,65 these international organizations have still failed to enforce internal rules or laws against frequenting brothels.66

Ninety percent of foreign sex workers in the Balkans are estimated to be trafficked, although less than 35 percent are identified and deemed eligible to receive protection assistance, and less than 7 percent actually do receive long-term support.67 It is therefore well known among those charged with teaching Bosnians how to better enforce their laws, e.g. peacekeepers, the International Police Task Force [IPTF]68, and international humanitarian workers, that by visiting a prostitute, one stands a good chance of visiting a trafficked woman.68 One would think, therefore, that workers paid by the foreign ministries whose goals are return to tiffany trafficking and promoting safety and democracy would be strictly forbidden to visit brothels, but they are not. In fact, sometimes they receive no punishment whatsoever even when caught engaging in such activity.70 How can a victim of trafficking be expected to escape her captor and seek safety with the very men paying her captors for her services?

Some international organizations such as the OSCE and some tiffany 1837 of the United Nations have recently developed "Codes of Conduct" which implicitly forbid their personnel from seeing prostitutes by exhorting that they not "engage in any activity unbecoming of a mission member," subsequent to widely-publicized scandals involving international troops engaged in trafficking.71 Nevertheless, several recent articles indicate that local police, international peacekeepers, and humanitarian aid workers continue to be major users of brothels in the Balkans in particular.72 Developing and enforcing prohibitions against this practice are crucial, because the international police, peacekeepers, and humanitarian workers are the very persons whose duty it is to work with local authorities to eradicate trafficking in this part of the world, and the victims are supposed to be looking to international police and peacekeepers for protection.73

In recent years, two main anti-trafficking models have emerged. Some countries and tiffany somerset institutions, such as the United States and the European Union, promote anti-trafficking programs that emphasize the prosecution of traffickers. Other countries and institutions such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are pressing for a victim-oriented or "human rights" approach to fighting trafficking.