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Child Trafficking
The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation
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About the Factbook
The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation was compiled from media, non-governmental organization and government reports. It is an initial effort to collect facts, statistics and known cases on global sexual exploitation. Information is organized into four categories:
  - Trafficking,
  - Prostitution,
  - Pornography, and
  - Organized and Institutionalized
    Sexual Exploitation
    and Violence.

Sources were not contacted to verify information. Close examination will reveal that there are contradictions in information depending on the sources of information (ex: how many women are in prostitution in Thailand). All statistics are reported with no attempt to evaluate which numbers are more likely to be accurate. In fact, the exact numbers in many cases are not known and estimates come from different sources which use different methods to determine what they report.

We hope these facts will assist people to recognize the harm caused throughout the world by sexual violence and exploitation and catalyze action against this violence agianst women.

This project was made possible with the support of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rhode Island and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Norway.

If you use this information in your work, please reference this factbook-- The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation, Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn, Vanessa Chirgwin, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, 1999.


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Eastern Europe
TRAFFICKING

Prostitution and trafficking networks in European Union countries are operated mostly by Russians, Yugoslavians, Ukrainians, Turkish, and Albanians. (Roland-Pierre Paringaux, "Prostitution Takes a Turn for the West," Le Monde, 24 May 1998)

Two-thirds of 500,000 women trafficked for prostitution worldwide annually come from Eastern Europe. (Anita Gradin, European Union Commissioner, Martina Vandenberg, "The Invisible Woman," The Moscow Times, 8 October 1997)

Ukraine, Russia and Belarus have replaced Thailand and the Phillippines as the epicenter of the global business in trafficking women. (Michael Specter, "Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women," New York Times, 11 January 1998)

An increasing number of Eastern European women are in prostitution in Japan. (Roland-Pierre Paringaux, "Prostitution Takes a Turn for the West," Le Monde, 24 May 1998)

Methods and Techniques of Traffickers

Women trafficked from Ukraine and Russia say pimps take away their passports until they pay their 'debt' for travel, sometimes as much as $15,000. (Global Survival Network, Vladmir Isachenkov "Soviet Womem Slavery Flourishes," Associated Press, 6 November 1997)

Traffickers find their victims through newspaper ads, posing as employment, marriage, modeling or tourist agencies. (Vladmir Isachenkov, "Soviet Women Slavery Flourishes," Associated Press, 6 November 1997)



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