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Trafficking of Migrant Workers from Ukraine: Issues of Labour and Sexual Exploitation

Document number
1014
Date
2005
Title
Trafficking of Migrant Workers from Ukraine: Issues of Labour and Sexual Exploitation
Author/publisher
Tetyana Kiryan, Mariska N.J. van der Linden, International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up, ILO Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour (SAP-FL), Forced labour, Irregular migration, Labour migration
Summary
The main objectives of this research were to investigate forced labour resulting both from trafficking and non-trafficking related migration, in the context of irregular migration from Ukraine. The study, based on questionnaires completed with returned migrants in Ukraine, focus-group interviews with selected migrants, and interviews with experts, focussed on the profiles of trafficked and non-trafficked victims of forced labour as opposed to ‘successful’ migrants. The Ukraine has done much to combat trafficking in recent years and has taken many positive initiatives. For example, it has developed a core instrument dealing with the issue of trafficking in human beings: The Comprehensive Programme to Counter Trafficking in Human Beings for 2002 – 2005. The programme consists of three chapters, each defining a set of activities aimed at the prevention of trafficking, the prosecution of traffickers and the protection and re-integration of the victims3. However, the practice of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of forced labour still exists. Furthermore, the issue of forced labour outcomes of irregular migration that are not directly related to trafficking has not been fully considered. Thus much remains to be done in Ukraine.
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