420,000 women from Ukraine trafficked out of country

Posted on May 2, 2008
Filed Under Europe, humans |

A 2005 study on the Human Trafficking Situation in Ukraine stated that ” some 420,000 women were estimated to have been trafficked out of the country in the last few years alone.”

Source: Olga Pyshchulina, ” An Evaluation of Ukrainian Legislation to Counter and Criminalize Human Trafficking,” Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives, edited by Sally Stoecker and Louise Shelley, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), available at http://policy-traccc.gmu.edu/publications/publications.shtml

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