500,000 to 850,000 women trafficked out of Russia over 10 years

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

Between the years 1995-2005, an estimated 500,000 to 850,000 women were believed to have been trafficked out of the country.   Human Trafficking Expert Louis Shelley writes ” many of these women, however, went abroad to work in a variety of difficult labor situations and only a much smaller share went directly into the sex industry.”

Source: Louise I. Shelley and Robert W. Orttung, ” Russia’s Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking,” Ruling Russia: Law, Crime, and Justice in a Changing Society, edited by William Pridmore, (Rowan & Littlefeild, 2005), available at http://policy-traccc.gmu.edu/publications/publications.shtml.

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