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.

Highlights

  • For over two decades, human trafficking has been recognized as one of the most dangerous types of international criminal business which is a flagrant violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms

  • 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

  • A further negative trend, which arose a few years ago in Ukraine, needs to be further explored – from the country of origin of victims of trafficking, it is turning into a country of destination of living goods, as more and more citizens of other states become affected by various forms of exploitation in Ukraine: sexual, including those involved in forced prostitution and pornography, labour – in agriculture, construction, service sectors, forced begging and organ extraction [29, p. 6]

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Introduction

Human trafficking has been recognized as one of the most dangerous types of international criminal business which is a flagrant violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms. About 2.5 million people from 127 different countries are being exploited in 137 countries of the world due to their involvement in the process of human trafficking [4]. The global financial and economic crisis, which was the result of a decline in the indicators of a number of socio-economic issues around the world [5], only aggravated the human trafficking phenomenon (either for sexual exploitation, or for the purpose of attraction in forced labour). Almost all regions of the world are covered with this disaster. This predetermines the urgency of creating an effective system of collective opposition to this extremely negative phenomenon by efforts of the entire civilized world

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