While it might sound odd that a U.S. lawyer would train Kosovo officials on their own law, Chaturvedi notes that the country’s trafficking laws had been written by the United Nations. “It wasn’t homegrown legislation,” she says. Trafficking is an ongoing problem in Eastern Europe, she says, where women and children are shuffled through the back-channel with regularity. “They don’t really have a structure there for how to tackle it on a comprehensive level,” she says.
Chaturvedi and Orr drew up a training program, which they ran during a two-day conference in June 2008. Chaturvedi focused on confiscation laws and how law enforcement can use them to seize assets of people suspected of trafficking. “We really just broke it down,” she says. Following the training event, the United Nations issued a circular directing local prosecutors to use confiscation laws in their cases.
