Human trafficking from Ukrainian cities and villages: Current trends

Abstract

The official statistics of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has recorded that in 2017 the number of cases of human trafficking from Ukraine increased threefold (342 cases versus 115 in 2016). Such a sharp growth of the aforementioned crime was last observed in 2005 to 2006. Today, there are no administrative and territorial districts in Ukraine from which future victims of human traffickers would not be recruited. According to criminal proceedings, about 70% of human trafficking victims are residents of large Ukrainian cities. The aim of this research is to investigate current trends of human trafficking phenomenon from Ukrainian cities and villages and to present the ways how the victims fall into slavery. The revealed trends of the human trafficking from Ukraine allow us to affirm that whereas similarity of social and demographic, moral and physiological characteristics of urban and rural residents, the second ones have a higher level of risk to become a victim of human trafficking. The results obtained allow us to develop evidence-based recommendations for the human trafficking from Ukraine decreasing as from the hole country, as rural locals, in particular. The new feature in human trafficking is a negative trend that Ukraine is changing from the country in which human trafficking victims originate into the destination country for human trafficking.

Profile of Reported Trafficking in Persons in Brazil Between 2009 and 2017

“…Previous research has reported some individual characteristics associated with higher rates of human trafficking (Babenko et al, 2019; Cruyff et al, 2017; Lamilla, 2017; Singh et al, 2019). Those who are marginalized are at greatest risk, such as people with low education and income (Babenko et al, 2019; Walk Free Foundation, 2014).…”

“…Studies carried out in national contexts have also presented reports with a predominance of females in the young adult phase, with a large representation of adolescents, such as Ecuador (Lamilla, 2017), India (Singh et al, 2019), and Ukraine (Babenko et al, 2019).…”