In the meantime Ukraine has become a hub for organized crime including arms trafficking and human trafficking. I suspect that this is why the democRATs are so interested in Ukraine.
GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over credible and well-documented allegations of long-standing trafficking and forced labour of migrant women in the Golyanovo district of Moscow, in Russia.
The victims, primarily from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have reportedly been subjected to extreme forms of exploitation and violence for decades.
“The facts described reveal deeply disturbing patterns of trafficking in persons and contemporary forms of slavery, enabled by systemic failures in the Russian legal and institutional framework,” the experts said. “The lack of effective and timely investigations and the fact that perpetrators are not held accountable fuels impunity which is unacceptable.”
According to information received, dozens of women were lured to Russia with false promises of legitimate employment in small shops. Once there, their documents were confiscated, and they were held in captivity, forced to work up to 20 hours a day in inhumane conditions without pay. Victims were reportedly subjected to torture, sexual violence and forced abortions, and their children were abducted.
“These women were isolated, abused, and stripped of all autonomy. The scale and duration of the abuse, coupled with the authorities’ failure to act despite repeated complaints, point to a deeply entrenched system of exploitation,” the experts said.
Despite dozens of complaints from victims and civil society organisations since the 1990s, Russian authorities have failed to conduct effective investigations, even refusing to register cases.
The experts noted that investigations were often closed on the false assumption that victims had given consent, ignoring compelling evidence of coercion and abuse.
This sturdy shows that the trafficking of women from the Russian Federation occurs on a global scale. Russian women are known to have been trafficked to between 40 and 50 countries worldwide, including most European countries, North American and parts of Asia and the Middle East.
https://publications.iom.int/books/mrs-no-7-trafficking-sexual-exploitation-case-russian-federation
Didn’t take long for the Ukraine Apologist to try to deflect to Russia, as if that has anything to do with the story.
All may be true though Russia still leads in all those categories, doesn’t change the facts of the article.
Unlike Russia and most of the other post-Soviet states that are peace-loving models of clean government and social decorum. /s
Ukraine is a tier 2 rating in human trafficking isn’t it, not a tier 3 like Russia?
Yes I just checked, Ukraine, New Zealand, Hungary, Japan, etc. tier 2 in human trafficking.
Russia tier 3.
Tier 3
Afghanistan Eritrea Russia
Belarus Iran Sint Maarten
Burma Korea, Democratic Republic of South Sudan
Cambodia Laos Sudan
Chad Macau S.A.R. Syria
China Nicaragua Venezuela
Cuba Papua New Guinea