Kosovo is a source, transit, and destination country for women and girls trafficked transnationally and internally for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.
[2] A later study suggested that most victims were young adults from Moldova or Romania.
[3] According to the U.S. State Department's 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report, Kosovo was a Tier 2 country, which is reserved for "Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.
In their 2004 report, Amnesty International declared that human trafficking in Kosovo had "become a major destination country for women and girls trafficked into forced prostitution" since the establishment of UNMIK.
The United Nations Department of Peace Operations (DPKO) claimed that "peacekeepers have come to be seen as part of the problem in trafficking rather than the solution," whereas the UN Secretary General criticized contributing countries for failing to prosecute their nationals accused of wrongdoing.