Articles tagged with
Kosovo

The European Parliament (EP) members engaged in a "heated debate" over the Kosovo organ trafficking allegations, reports Beta

Kosovo is a transit route for Afghan heroin on its way to the EU and it has a growing narcotics problem, the U.S. State Department said in a report

Ex-Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla del Ponte she would like to investigate the case of organ trafficking in Kosovo

Trafficking took on a new dimension late last month when Greek and Bulgarian authorities, acting on a tip, broke up a crime ring that bought and sold newborn babies. Baby boys fetched a higher price than girls, and skin color was a further factor

Albanian witnesses from Kosovo gave a detailed testimony in 2003 about the trade of Serbs' organs, according to a UN document obtained by The Associated Press

The top United Nations official in Kosovo called for an urgent investigation into allegations that members of the KLA trafficked in human organs in 1999, when it was pitted against ethnic Serbs and the Yugoslav army

Rasim Ljajic said that information that the UN had known about human organ trafficking in Kosovo, but had "turned a blind eye" to the operations for the sake of "stability", wasn't anything new

Zoran Dragisic, an adviser to Belgrade's negotiating team in the upcoming talks with Pristina, is a professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Security

Investigation into human organ trade should be conducted by an independent institution and not by EULEX, says Council of Europe (CoE) Rapporteur Dick Marty

Corruption has flourished in the Balkans since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and collapse of Communism. It continues to plague the region and has slowed progress toward eventual European Union membership