UKRAINE WOMENS ISSUES

Ukraine is currently one of the largest exporters of women to the international sex industry. ("Ukraine Film Warns of Forcible Prostitution Abroad," Russia Today, 1 July 1998)

More than 100,000 Ukrainian women, many of them minors, have been trapped and enslaved as prostitutes in the West. (International Organization for Migration, Piotr Bazylko "Poland, Ukraine to fight sex slave industry" Reuters, 16 July 1998)

1,000 Ukrainian women are in prostitution in Poland. (Piotr Bazylko "Poland, Ukraine to fight sex slave industry," Reuters, 16 July 1998)........

Ukrainian women constitute the largest ethnic group of foreign women in Turkey’s sex industry. ("Ukraine Film Warns of Forcible Prostitution Abroad," Russia Today, 1 July 1998)

Ukraine is currently one of the largest "exporters" of women who enter the international sex industry either under false pretenses or for economic survival. Many women are fooled by false advertisements offering well-paying work as housekeepers, dancers or models. Later, their passports are taken from them and they are forced, often violently, to into prostitution. (Lily Hyde, "Ukraine: Film Warns Of Forcible Prostitution Abroad from," RFE/RL, 8 July 1998)

Of 500,000 Ukrainian women who migrated to Western Europe over the past few years, more than 100,000 end up in the sex industry. (Nina Karpacheva, human rights commissioner of the Ukrainian parliament, "Ukrainian women - victims of sex industry," ITAR/TASS, 30 June 1998)

70% of pimps who traffic Ukrainian women are women. ("Ukrainian women - victims of sex industry," ITAR/TASS, 30 June 1998)

500,000 Ukrainian women have been trafficked under false pretenses to the West since 1991. At least 100,000 have been trapped and enslaved in the sex industry. (Steve Cook of the International Organization for Migration, Chris Blrd, "100,000 Ukrainians slaves of West’s sex industry," Reuters, 6 July 1998)

More than 100,000 Ukrainian women are being forced to work as prostitutes in the West. (International Organization for Migration "Poland, Ukraine to fight sex slave industry," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline, Vol. 2, No. 136 Part II, 17 July 1998)

Ukranian and Russian women are the most valuable commodities in the sex trade. (Michael Specter, "Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women," New York Times, 11 January 1998)

The increase in men buying women in prostitution has been accompanied by the increase of HIV/AIDS in the Ukraine. The number increased from 44 cases in 1994 to more than 15,000 in 1997, one of the biggest increases in the world. ("AIDS cases jump in former Soviet Union," United Press International, 21 April 1998)

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