More than 30 per cent of the Bulgarian human traffic victims were subjected to re-trafficking, once they returned to their home places, Nadya Centre representatives Rosanka Venelinova said.
The non-governmental organisation carried out a forum together with Open Doors Centre in Pleven. Representatives of the Justice and Interior ministries also took part in the session, Bulgarian news agency BTA reported.
Social re-integration programmes for human trafficking victims in Bulgaria were inefficient, Venelinova said.
Victims needed long-term therapy, medical, social and psychological care, Venelinova said.
According to a report of the US department of state Bulgaria was part of the human trafficking transit route. Trafficking channels to Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the Czech Republic passed through Bulgaria.
Venelinova said that the number of male victims of human trafficking has increased. These people were sent abroad mainly for labour exploitation.
During the past year Bulgarian police investigated 134 cases of sexual exploitation and only seven labour exploitation instances, Venelinova said.
