The scourge of human trafficking plagues the former Yugoslavia. Selma Hadzihalilovic, an activist for women’s rights, human rights, and civil liberties, is the Bosnia and Herzegovina project coordinator of the Zonta International/STAR Network of World Learning Anti-Trafficking Community Mobilization Project. She is the former coordinator of the LAW Team of the Campaign for the Implementation of the Human Rights of Conscientious Objection to Compulsory Military Service. The founder (and former official spokeswoman) of the RING Network, a group of women’s organizations from Bosnia and Herzegovina working to end the trafficking of women and children, Ms. Hadzihalilovic has testified before an OSCE committee in Vienna and the UN Commission on the Status of Women on the crisis of human trafficking in post-conflict regions. (Last updated 12.2002)

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