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Law No. 9188 of 12.02.2004 Amending the Criminal Code
Type of Measure
Laws > Violence against women > Legislation
Form of Violence
Trafficking
Year
2004
Brief Description
Article 114/d of the Criminal Code (Law No. 9188 of 12.02.2004) on "Trafficking of women" states that "recruitment, transportation, transfer, concealing and reception of women by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, kidnapping, fraud, abuse of duty or making use of the social, physical or psychological condition or giving or taking payments for benefits in order to receive the consent of the person, which controls another person, with the purpose of exploitation, for prostitution of others or others forms of sexual exploitation of work or other compulsory slavery services, for transplantations of organs and other forms of exploitation are punished from 7-15 years and a fine from 3-6 million lek".
Source of Information
CEDAW/C/ALB/3 para. 99
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