[Stop-traffic] Fw: News/Albania: Albanian Government works to stop Child Trafficking

[morhant at igc.org]

For Albanians, it's come to this: A son for a TV
By Nicholas Wood
The New York Times, November 13, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/13/international/europe/13ALBA.html

Over the past 12 years, since the collapse of Stalinism here, a 
substantial trade in children has established itself in Albania, 
Europe's most impoverished and long most isolated country.

No one has exact figures for the number of children involved, but the 
government estimates that 6,000 children have been sent abroad for 
use in begging and prostitution rackets, or in some cases sold to 
Western couples for adoption.