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Ukraine is currently one of the largest exporters of women to the international
sex industry. ("Ukraine Film Warns of Forcible Prostitution Abroad," Russia
Today, 1 July 1998)
More than 100,000 Ukrainian women, many of them minors, have been trapped
and enslaved as prostitutes in the West. (International Organization for Migration,
Piotr Bazylko "Poland, Ukraine to fight sex slave industry" Reuters,
16 July 1998)
1,000 Ukrainian women are in prostitution in Poland. (Piotr Bazylko "Poland,
Ukraine to fight sex slave industry," Reuters, 16 July 1998)
Ukrainian women constitute the largest ethnic group of foreign women in Turkey’s
sex industry. ("Ukraine Film Warns of Forcible Prostitution Abroad," Russia
Today, 1 July 1998)
Ukraine is currently one of the largest "exporters" of women who enter the
international sex industry either under false pretenses or for economic survival.
Many women are fooled by false advertisements offering well-paying work as
housekeepers, dancers or models. Later, their passports are taken from them
and they are forced, often violently, to into prostitution. (Lily Hyde, "Ukraine:
Film Warns Of Forcible Prostitution Abroad from," RFE/RL, 8 July 1998)
Of 500,000 Ukrainian women who migrated to Western Europe over the past few
years, more than 100,000 end up in the sex industry. (Nina Karpacheva, human
rights commissioner of the Ukrainian parliament, "Ukrainian women - victims
of sex industry," ITAR/TASS, 30 June 1998)
80 percent of women who go abroad for a better chance of work have no idea
that they will be forced into prostitution. ("Ukrainian women - victims of
sex industry," ITAR/TASS, 30 June 1998)
70% of pimps who traffic Ukrainian women are women. ("Ukrainian women - victims
of sex industry," ITAR/TASS, 30 June 1998)
500,000 Ukrainian women have been trafficked under false pretenses to the
West since 1991. At least 100,000 have been trapped and enslaved in the sex
industry. (Steve Cook of the International Organization for Migration, Chris
Blrd, "100,000 Ukrainians slaves of West’s sex industry," Reuters,
6 July 1998)
More than 100,000 Ukrainian women are being forced to work as prostitutes
in the West. (International Organization for Migration "Poland, Ukraine to
fight sex slave industry," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline,
Vol. 2, No. 136 Part II, 17 July 1998)
Ukranian and Russian women are the most valuable commodities in the sex trade.
(Michael Specter, "Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women," New York
Times, 11 January 1998)
As many as 400,000 women under age 30 have been trafficked in the past decade.
(Ukraine interior ministry, Michael Specter, "Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive
Slavic Women," New York Times, 11 January 1998)
Cases
A Ukrainian woman trafficked to Brussels reported having 20 men per day buy
her. (Lily Hyde, "Ukraine: Film Warns Of Forcible Prostitution Abroad from,"
RFE/RL, 8 July 1998)
In 1996, in Serbia a Ukrainian woman, who tried to escape prostitution, was
beheaded in public. (Michael Specter, "Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive Slavic
Women," New York Times, 11 January 1998)
Policy and Law Ukraine has adopted a law making trafficking and forcing someone
into prostitution punishable by up to 15 years in prison. (Radio Liberty Prague
Czech Republic, "Ukraine Cracks Down on Sexual Slavery," RFE/RL Newsline,
Vol2, No71, Part2, 14 April 1998)
The governments of Poland and Ukraine agreed on July 16, 1998, to cooperate
in fighting prostitution and sex slave trafficking to the West. "The Mafia
has got engaged in [the trafficking of women]. We must take preventive measures
together," a Ukrainian Interior Ministry representative commented on the agreement.
("Poland, Ukraine to fight sex slave industry," Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty Newsline, Vol. 2, No. 136 Part II, 17 July 1998)
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