Prevention of Child Trafficking – Constant Challenge of the Republic of Macedonia

Abstract

By raising the cultural, social and educational level of citizens,
child trafficking as social and criminal phenomenon begins to be freely
discussed and recognised, which should be protected by the competent
institutions. Today, the pornography tolerance limits are wider than ever.
It can be freely stated that in some way pornography is a component of
the world’s popular culture. Despite an impressive, if disparate, array of
international legal protections, it is clear that child labor, forced marriage
and commercial sexual exploitation of children and adults were
increasing, virtually unchecked in many parts of the world.
Globalization, bringing with it the promise of wider markets and greater
profits, has created a complex new network and even new forms of
exploitation. We all believed that trafficking was an appropriate focus
for international law. In this paper, by applying the method of
comparison, a presentation of the valid legislation has been made, which
refers to the protection of the rights of women and children, whereupon
the efforts of certain countries (especially the underdeveloped ones
offering poor legislative solutions) to bring their solutions closer to the
rest of the more developed countries which regulated this matter long
time ago are evident. Perhaps, this is the most convenient manner for
approaching the universally acceptable principles. Certain changes are
constantly being made in the system of crimes against sexual freedom
and sexual morality, especially the establishment of criminal-law
protection of women and children from acts of sexual abuse, and new
incriminations are provided for as most adequate solution of the newly
emerged problem – a trend which should be followed by Macedonian
penal legislation.