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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
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trafficking victims in Eastern Europe, group says Associated Press AP, At one time this article had been archived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 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' Organization
protects Ukrainian youth from falling prey to human traffickers Don Butler, The Ottawa Citizen, January 30,
2009 www.meetup.com/Fight-Slavery-Now/messages/boards/thread/8824673 [accessed 4 September 2012] 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 YOU KNOW ABOUT SOME ONE WITH SAME SITUACION BECAUSE SHE NEEDS
A OTHER TESTIMONIAL PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU CAN HELP US …WE NEED GET IN TUCH
WITH SOME 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 http://news.kievukraine.info/2007/11/ukraine-woman-forced-to-dance-at-strip.html [accessed 18 June 2013] 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/report/freedom-world/2009/ukraine [accessed 28 June 2012] 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/WCMS_075592/lang--en/index.htm [accessed 4 September 2012] 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 resent to All
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