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Ukraine is a source, transit and,
to a lesser extent, destination country for men, women, and children
trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced
labor. Forty-eight percent of the trafficking victims assisted by IOM and its
local NGO partners in Ukraine in 2008 suffered sexual exploitation; three
percent had been forced to beg; and 49 percent suffered other forms of forced
labor. Women were forced into the sex
industry, or forced to work as housekeepers, in service industries, or in
textile or light manufacturing. The majority of Ukrainian male labor
trafficking victims were exploited in Russia but also in other countries,
primarily as construction laborers, factory and agriculture workers, or
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[accessed 12 September 2011] More Ukrainian men, women and
children have been trafficked abroad and forced into indentured labor or
prostitution than in any other Eastern European country since the Soviet
collapse, an international migration group said in a report Monday. The organization said the full
scale of trafficking through, from and within Sex Traffickers Prey On Eastern Europeans Ron Synovitz & RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, Radio Free Europe/Radio www.rferl.org/content/article/1060878.html [accessed 5 January 2011] Maria is a 30-year-old mother from
Maria says her nightmare began
after she and the other women arrived in ***
ARCHIVES *** Mobile phones in the fight against human trafficking - Trafficking hotline, Dial 527 Martiena van der Meer (article) and Louise Dunne (audio), Radio
Netherlands Worldwide, 25-07-2007 static.rnw.nl/migratie/www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/ukr070725-redirected [Last accessed 5 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
HOTLINE - In the Ukraine, now even the
simplest of handsets could potentially save lives thanks to three of the
country's leading service providers who have collaborated with
the International Organization for Migration to set up a toll-free
information hotline. Customers of Ukrainian mobile phone service providers KyivStar, UMC and life:) can dial '527' from their handsets in order to receive information and
advice from the IOM on migration and trafficking issues, and potential
migrants will also get information on legal methods of migration. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61682.htm [accessed 5 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – There were also reports that both
women and men were forced to work in agriculture, especially in the southern
regions, in summer and autumn. Children were exploited in industrial cities
in the east. For example, 2 adults in the eastern town of Men were mainly trafficked as
construction workers and miners. Children who were trafficked across the border
or within the country were forced to provide sexual services, engage in
unpaid work, or beg. The overwhelming majority of trafficking victims were
women, who were used as sex‑workers, housekeepers, seamstresses, and
dishwashers. Trafficked women were also used to bear children for infertile
couples. There was a lack of information regarding male victims of
trafficking, because men generally did not recognize themselves as victims of
trafficking. As a result, men rarely addressed complaints to law enforcement
agencies. Estimates regarding the number of
trafficked citizens varied, but the IOM stated that one 1 of every 10 persons
knew someone in their community who has been trafficked. According to Human
Rights Ombudsman Karpachova, approximately five to
seven million citizens lived and worked abroad, many without legal
protection, and were therefore potentially vulnerable to traffickers. Traffickers used a variety of
methods to recruit victims, including advertisements in newspapers and on
television and radio that offered jobs abroad with high salaries and promises
of modeling contracts, marriage proposals, and trips through travel agencies.
Traffickers often presented themselves as friends of other friends and
deceived the relatives of potential victims. Most of the traffickers were
members of organized crime groups. The traffickers often paid for the
processing of passports and travel documents for the victims, thus placing
them into debt bondage. In some cases the traffickers simply kidnapped their
victims. Concluding Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of
The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 17 November 1995 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/crc-ukraine95.htm [accessed 5 January 2011] [11] The Committee is worried by
the high rate of abandonment of children, especially new-born babies, and the
lack of a comprehensive strategy to assist vulnerable families. This
situation can lead to illegal inter-country adoption or other forms of
trafficking and sale of children. In this context the Committee is also
concerned about the absence of any law prohibiting the sale and trafficking
of children, and the fact that the right of the child to have his/her
identity preserved is not guaranteed by the law. Caring for the children who 'don't exist' Don Butler, The Ottawa Citizen, January 30, 2009 [accessed 5 January 2011] Since the collapse of the About 80 per cent are "social
orphans" who live on the street because their parents drink, use drugs
or abuse them sexually or physically.
Officially, many don't even exist. Their parents never registered
their births, so the state has no record of them. "That's why it's very easy for human
trafficking," said Mr. Svystun. "You can
take somebody who doesn't exist, so nobody cares." Alexandra Stadnyk, Kyiv Post,
Jul 16, 2008 www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/29255/ [accessed 5 January 2011] NATALIA’S STORY - Despite a steadily improving
economy that is reducing financial desperation, Natalia’s
story is still all too common in Like many deceived victims, Natalia said she was destitute when a young woman
approached her as she was working in a local market in her hometown. The
woman asked if she was interested in working abroad. “She promised good money,” says Natalia in a shaky voice, her mascara watering as tears
begin to trickle down her face. “This woman knew I had no money,
no husband, a sick mother and two children and she knew I was desperate,” she
says. Natalia was told she would work in the home
of a family in a Western European nation. IT TURNED OUT TO BE A LIE - “When I arrived, I asked where
the family was, where the washing machine was and all the other things I
would need to help around the house. Suddenly a large man dressed in black
threw cheap lingerie at me and said I had to work to pay off the cost of my
travel, and that’s when I knew I had been trafficked. I knew I had been
trafficked on the first day.” Natalia worked with five other women from
Daniel S. - 5 May 2008 globalvoicesonline.org/2007/11/06/ukraine-human-trafficking/#comment-1448442 [accessed 12 September 2011] DANIEL S. - HI MI GIRLFRIEND IS FROM UKRAINE
SHE WAS BROWT TO HERE BY A AGENCY THAT BASICLY SELL BRIDES FOR 10,000 DOLARS
SHE WAS TRAUMATIZED BY A MAN THAT PAY FOR HER TO COME HERE I LIKE TO KNOW IF
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ONE THAT DID HAD SAME PROBLEM MAY BE YOU KNOW ABOUT SOME BODY…. TNKS. Ukraine woman forced to dance at strip club testifies in
D.C. Todd Spangler, Free Press forum.ukietv.com/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=2129& [accessed 5 January 2011] Lured from the Harbor Springs man helps fight abuse and human trafficking
in Ukraine Louise Nelle, News-Review staff
writer, Petoskey News, Harbor Springs, September 07, 2007 articles.petoskeynews.com/2007-09-07/human-trafficking_24023640 [accessed 5 January 2011] In terms of human trafficking,
Wiser said the committee supports groups directly involved with victims. They
are also working to prevent traffickers from receiving information about
orphans. “Traffickers are getting this
information on when these kids get released and then they target them. We
want to seal this information so it’s not available,” Wiser said. Eight Israelis charged with trafficking human organs rt.com/news/eight-israelis-charged-with-trafficking-human-organs/ [accessed 5 January 2011] Israeli police have broken up an
organ transplanting ring that persuaded dozens of Israelis to have their
kidneys removed in It’s not difficult to become an
organ donor. Ads have appeared in both the Russian and Arabic press. Dozens
of people are believed to have been duped into donating their body
organs. We are co-operating with the
Ukrainian justice system. In Ukraine leads in number of human trafficking victims in
Eastern Europe, group says Associated Press AP, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] More Ukrainian men, women and children
have been trafficked abroad and forced into indentured labor or prostitution
than in any other Eastern European country since the Soviet collapse, an
international migration group said in a report Monday. The organization said the full
scale of trafficking through, from and within Queen Sylvia of Posted: October 01, 2006 www.forumforfree.com/forums/index.php?mforum=theroyals&showtopic=2454&st=30 [accessed 5 January 2011] A recently created department
within the Interior ministry has liquidated 60 criminal groups that were
involved in human trafficking. More than 700 victims of the modern-day slave
trade have been returned to the country. Smuggler's Prey – [PDF] www.selfconnection.ca/Descriptions/9780143012597.pdf [accessed 19 December 2010] Every day, scores of young women
throughout the former East Bloc are lured by job offers that lead to a
hellish journey of sexual slavery and violence. Despite the barrage of
warnings on radio and TV, in newspapers and on billboards, desperate women
continue to line up with their naiveté and applications in hand, hoping that,
this time, they might just be in luck. Revealed: kept in a dungeon ready to be sold as slaves David Harrison in [accessed 19 December 2010] The women, aged 18 to 24, are from
across eastern Europe, lured from Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and Bulgaria, with promises of good jobs as waitresses,
au pairs and dancers. Instead, they have been forced into modern-day
slavery in western Sex Traffickers Prey On Eastern Europeans Ron Synovitz & RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, Radio Free Europe/Radio www.rferl.org/content/article/1060878.html [accessed 5 January 2011] Maria is a 30-year-old mother from
Maria says her nightmare began
after she and the other women arrived in Ukrainian women freed from sexual slavery in United Press International UPI International Edition, genderfcukbel.multiply.com/links/item/13 [accessed 1 January 2011] [scroll down to Wednesday, August
10, 2005] The women - one of whom was held
for six years - were set to return to Ukraine after being rescued by Turkish
police following a call to the "157" hotline, which is run by the
IOM, the Geneva-based organization said.
Impoverished women from Eastern Europe are lured to Ukrainians Vulnerable to the Sex Trade The Associated Press AP, 04 August 2005 www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/ukrainians-vulnerable-to-the-sex-trade/210834.html [partially accessed 5 January 2011 - access restricted] Yulia said she left her hometown of Donestk four years ago for a job in one of Forced Labor –A Global Menace Dan Margolis, People's Weekly World Newspaper, 09/15/05 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] With her family life destroyed,
Anna became desperate. She struggled on until someone she had met offered her
a job working at a hotel in another country. Anna accepted the position in
hopes of finding a better life. Her
dreams were dashed, however. After being taken abroad, and after a trip
across a desert on a pickup truck, she was locked inside an apartment. There
was no hotel job waiting for her, nor was there a hotel. Instead, she was
raped up to nine times a day by different men who paid her captors for the
sex. Anna had unwittingly become trapped in sex slavery. Russian Girls Eager To Work Abroad, Despite The Danger Of
Sex Trafficking Pravda, 31.03.2005 english.pravda.ru/society/stories/31-03-2005/7977-slaves-0/ [accessed 24 November 2010] The Ukrainian Interior Ministry and the Israeli police
conducted a special operation, as a result of which an Israeli national
recruiting girls from the CIS was detained in ICE arrests men who forced women to work as strippers News release, February 17, 2005 -- Source: www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/ www.realpolice.net/forums/off-topic-70/28854-hey-michiganders-ever-been-cheetahs.html [accessed 12 September 2011] According to the criminal
complaint, xxxxxxxxxxxx, 32, who is a citizen of Trafficking in Women from Donna M. Hughes, University of Rhode Island & Tatyana Denisova, Zaporizhia State University, Final Report, 2002 www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/203275.pdf [accessed 5 January 2011] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -
Eighty percent of the traffickers are Ukrainian citizens, and about 60
percent are women. The traffickers use
women who were formerly in prostitution as recruiters. The pimps in the
destination countries places orders with the traffickers for the number of
women they need. Once the women arrive at the destination, the criminal group
controls them. Women must repay inflated debts before they are released and
their identity and/or travel documents returned. If the women do not comply
they are threatened, beaten, and raped. A former trafficker/pimp presented
the researchers with photographs of a victim being humiliated. These photographs
were used to control her. Victims and family members of
victims are afraid to talk to the police. Often victims do not tell their
friends and families what has happened to them while they were abroad. Only
12 percent reported their victimization. The risk of retaliation from the
traffickers and organized crime groups is too high. The “Natasha” Trade: The Transnational Shadow Market of
Trafficking in Women [PDF] Donna M. Hughes, www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/natasha_trade.pdf [accessed 5 January 2011] Irina, aged 18, responded to an
advertisement in a Kyiv, Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 3 Civil Liberties: 2 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7726 [accessed 5 January 2011] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/ukraine [accessed 5 January 2011] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, 17 July 2009 [accessed 5 January 2011] Ukranian National Consultation on the
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children ECPAT International, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] BORDER
REGULATIONS FACILITATE TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN - The Situation Of Children In Julia. Galustyan, Head of Centre
for Gender Studies, PhD. in Sociology & Valentina.
Novitskaya, Research Fellow, Centre for Gender
Studies, ECPAT International, Ukrainian Institute Of Social Research, 2003 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] According IOM data, of 1355 Ukrainian
victims of trafficking who asked for help, 10% were adolescents (mostly aged
from 12 to18). In September 2003, in
the There are rare cases when parents
themselves sell their children: In Yevpatoria, A modern slave's brutal odyssey BBC News, 3 November, 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3979725.stm [accessed 5 January 2011] EX-TRAFFICKER'S STORY - One former trafficker, now
working with the authorities and living at a secret address, told Slavery
Today how his former gang would operate.
"Most of the time we would use professional recruiters, but at
times we would kidnap women and children ourselves," he said. "The children were taken to be sold in
"I have heard that sick
children are sold and made into beggars.
"The healthy ones are kept and trained to work for the Mafia, to
deal drugs, to murder - whatever they are capable of. "I've also heard that some children
were sold for organs. This also happened with men and women, depending on the
demand." Child trafficking in Moldova International Labour Organisation ILO, Chisinau www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/insight/lang--en/WCMS_075592 [accessed 28 August 2011] Last year, life for 15 year-old Ioana had become unbearable. Though she was one of the
best pupils in her class, she had abandoned school and decided to leave her
home and her alcoholic parents, moving in with her grandparents. One day,
while at the market here in the Moldavian capital, she met a woman from a neighbouring village who listened attentively to her woes
and proposed that she accompany her to From September to April 2003, Ioana was forced
to sell goods on a market in Czech Police detained criminal group responsible for
trafficking Ukrainian women 22-06-2004 www.lastrada.org.ua/readnews.cgi?lng=en&Id=259 [access date unavailable] The criminals had promised their
victims respectable jobs with high salaries. It was only at the Czech
border that the girls realized they would have to “work off” the value of
their tickets, visas, and work permits at the night club. In www.lastrada.org.ua/readnews.cgi?lng=en&Id=424 [access date unavailable] Having trusted the promises of Zaur Mamedov, a minor girl went
to the UAE, to the town Abu-Dabi. When arrived to
the country, she noticed at once that there wasn’t any decent job for her
promised in A woman of 20, Lviv resident,
forced minors to prostitution www.lastrada.org.ua/readnews.cgi?lng=en&Id=410 [access date unavailable] According to the Public Relations Centre’s information, the pimp offered girls a job of
waitresses at the camping site. For her own money she bought them clothes and
lodged in rooms. Then she was saying that there was no vacant place for a
waitress, and it is necessary to pay off the money already spent and offered
them to work them off by prositution. II. Vital Voices Anti-Trafficking Activities www.vitalvoices.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?page_id=56#2 [access date unavailable] FOR SALE
OR RENT— THE CAPTIVE DAUGHTERS OF UKRAINE - Ms. Verveer
talked about her encounters with Ukrainian women pleading for help with their
missing daughters during her trip she made in 1997 as the Chief of Staff to
First Lady Hillary Clinton. “They were crying and asking for our help because
their daughters and neighbors were missing and they didn’t know what to do.
It was not until then did we realize how serious the trafficking problem was.”
After that trip, the Clinton Administration began working with NGOs, legal
experts, and government agencies to pass legislation that eventually became
the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act in 2000. Joint East West Research on Trafficking in Children for
Sexual Purposes in Edited by: Muireann O’Briain, Anke van den Borne
& Theo Noten, ECPAT Europe Law Enforcement
Group, Programme against Trafficking in Children
for Sexual Purposes in Europe, www.childcentre.info/projects/traffickin/dbaFile11169.pdf [accessed 5 January 2011] [page 35]
The experts consulted in the course of the research believe that girls
are sold for between US$2,000 and US$10,000 each. The destination countries
are Experts Criticize EU Over Human Trafficking Bernd Riegert, Deutsche Welle DW-World, 23.12.2004 www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1438511,00.html [accessed 5 January 2011] KIDNAPPED AND HELPLESS - The victims are often utterly
dependent on their employers as they are unable to legally apply for
residence permits, Wijers said. Entire industries
rely on the illegal workers who are kept as slaves, she said. The authorities
should develop witness protection programs for victims willing to testify
against traffickers and national referral mechanisms to identify victims. He cited intelligence and police
information as identifying a growing demand for underage girls. Women from
Eastern Europe, particularly Lilya 4-Ever -
Critically acclaimed feature-length film about trafficking Brama News and Community Press, www.brama.com/news/press/2005/06/050612lilya4ever.html [accessed 5 January 2011] While exact numbers are difficult
to pinpoint, roughly 75% of the apprehended cases of trafficking victims in
the Mariya Rasner, WeNews correspondent, Womensenews,
www.womensenews.org/story/the-world/041209/ukraines-top-dissident-raises-rare-female-voice [accessed 5 January 2011] LOOKING FOR A BETTER LIFE ABROAD - Because of the lack of equal
opportunities in "I had graduated from one of
the top universities in the country, and still there were no prospects for a good
job or a good life," says Natalia Cherkaska, an information-technology specialist who grew
up in Lviv, a major city in Western Ukraine and now
lives in Women's limited work opportunities
"may leave them vulnerable to being trafficked into the commercial sex
industry or other forms of forced labor," according to the Human Rights
Watch report. The World Bank said in
its 2000 report that the trafficking of women from Tatiana's Story - Prostitution - Stop Human Traffic - Anti-Slavery International At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] Like most victims of trafficking,
Tatiana's reason for travelling abroad was to
support her family. Through an agent in Once in Trafficking in Women:
[accessed 5 January 2011] [page 25] III. TRAFFICKING IN A.
INTRODUCTION - In
1999, La Strada, an NGO working on trafficking of women
in Information Campaign Against Trafficking in Women from International Organization for Migration IOM, Research
Report, July 1998, ISBN-92-9068-073-3 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] [page 14]
CHAPTER 3
FROM MIGRATION INTENTIONS TO TRAFFICKING - The nation-wide survey has
revealed a direct correlation between the adverse domestic economic condition
and surveyed women’s desire to migrate. From intending to migrate to
resorting to traffickers, however, is a large step. However, there is a growing
consensus that “trafficking must be seen as part of the world-wide feminization
of poverty and of labour migration”. When women are structurally denied
access to the formal and regulated labour market, they are increasingly being
pushed into unprotected or criminalized labour markets, such as sexual and
exploitative domestic work. C A S E S La Strada www.brama.com/lastrada/case1.html [accessed 5 January 2011] TANYA - She got the passport and visa and flew to Abu-Dabu. After the arrival her passport was taken out and
she was informed she had been sold for $ 7000 and from that moment she had to
work in a bar attracting clients RAISA - It was going on about half of the year. But one
day Azim said to my daughter that she had to move
to another man. She began to protest but he showed to her money which he had
received from that man and explained that she became the slave of that man OLEXANDRA - After some time women were
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