Sex Trafficking of Vulnerable Ukrainian Women and Children
Part II
Women and children fleeing Ukraine at risk from human traffickers
https://bit.ly/34H7d3w"Tamara Barnett, director of operations at the Human Trafficking Foundation, a U.K.-based charity which grew out of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking, said that such a rapid, mass displacement of people could be a "recipe for disaster."
"When you've suddenly got a huge cohort of really vulnerable people who need money and assistance immediately," she said, "it's sort of a breeding ground for exploitative situations and sexual exploitation. When I saw all these volunteers offering their houses ... that flagged a worry in my head."
The Migration Data Portal notes that humanitarian crises such as those associated with conflicts "can exacerbate pre-existing trafficking trends and give rise to new ones" and that traffickers can thrive on "the inability of families and communities to protect themselves and their children.""
Women and children fleeing Ukraine at risk from human traffickers
"activist Huschke Mau, the author of ‘Dehumanized: Why we must abolish prostitution’, worries about the danger that procurers, or pimps, will be busy recruiting at the German border.
Most women working in the country’s (legal) brothels are from Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Nigeria, German federal police statistics show. Mau, who was a prostitute intermittently for ten years, says Ukrainian women will soon be joining their ranks.
A country with a relatively liberal policy on prostitution, Germany is already the main target for human traffickers, according to Mau. “We must no longer be the country that is known for exploiting the vulnerable position that women are in,” she told epd. “At some point this has to become an embarrassment for us.”
"Jadwiga, a Bavaria-based group working with women who have been trafficked and forced into prostitution, is also concerned about the possibility of women being exploited when they arrive in the country.
“War and refugee crises make women especially vulnerable and at risk of becoming victims of human trafficking and other crimes,” Jadwiga wrote in a recent tweet. The group said it would work on informing and educating Ukrainian refugees about human trafficking, sexual exploitation and labor exploitation.
The head of Jadwiga, Monika Cissek-Evans, warned that “women should be careful with their passports and phone numbers. They should make a note of the names and addresses of the hosts,” she told epd. “And don’t blindly trust women – it’s not only men that are human traffickers.”
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