Ukraine
Human Trafficking

Market Overview

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."

Ukraine Black Markets

Number of People:
420,000

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://www.american.edu/traccc/resources/publications.html (accessed: March 21, 2007).