(Budikarakter.rs, photo: Dragan Todorović)

Jelena Hrnjak: Human Trafficking Victims are the Bravest Women of All

Some of the bravest women and girls I have ever met were human trafficking victims. Those were the women who boldly stood in a courtroom and put traffickers in their place, resisting the system that crucified them with social attitudes and expectations. That boldness and bravery is what drives me, and should drive us all.  

Photograph: NGO Atina's archive

Raise your voice and make a difference

“I had to give a statement five times, once to the police, once to the prosecutor, and three more times when I appeared in court. I want us to try to change that, and stop making other victims feel as if they are the ones standing trial.”

Maja, twenty-year-old victim of human trafficking