Source Countries for Trafficking

The following reports provide information about trafficking in women from the perspective of the source country, or the country of origin of the trafficking victim.  These reports focus on source countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).  In some cases, the countries in this region are source and destination countries or transit points for trafficked women, and so it is also useful to review research into the response of destination countries.  Research and reports on the problem of trafficking in women in specific countries of the CEE and CIS region can be accessed on the country pages of this site. 

Trafficking in Human Beings in Southeastern Europe: Current situation and responses to trafficking in human beings in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova and Romania, UNICEF, ODIHR and UNHCHR, June 2002.  [PDF, 270 pages].
This is a comprehensive report, which includes an overview of regional initiatives as well as the responses of individual governments to the problem of trafficking.  The report includes details about inadequacies in victim services as well as recommendations for intergovernmental organizations, national governments, NGOs and donors on prevention victim assistance, legal reform and training.

Victims of Trafficking in the Balkans: a study of trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation to, through and from the Balkan Region, International Organization for Migration (IOM), January 2001.  [PDF, 51 pages].

A Form of Slavery: Trafficking in Women in OSCE Member States, The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF), prepared for the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Trafficking in Human Beings, Vienna, 19 June 2000.  [PDF, 86 pages].
This report is based on information gathered in the region through questionnaires and contains data on such issues as existing legislation, government policies and NGO initiatives, existing victim support services and research for 29 countries in the CEE and CIS.

Women 2000: An Investigation into the Status of Women’s Rights in the former Soviet Union and Central and South-Eastern Europe, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 9 November, 2000.  [PDF, 546 pages].
This report contains information about a variety of women’s rights issues, including trafficking, for 30 countries in the CEE and CIS region.

Human rights abuses of women trafficked from countries of the former Soviet Union into Israel’s sex industry, Amnesty International, 18 May 2000, AI Index: MDE 15/17/00.  [PDF, 18 pages].

Preliminary Survey Report on Sexual Trafficking in the CIS, MiraMed Institute, June 1999. [PDF, 18 pages].

Trafficking in Women for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation: Mapping the Situation and Existing Organizations Working in Belarus, Russia, the Baltic and Nordic States, Foundation of Women's Forum/Stiftelsen Kvinnoforum, Stockholm, August 1998.
This report documents the problem of trafficking in women but also includes a survey of NGO activities on this issue as well as strategies for future actions.

Crime & Servitude: An Exposé of the Traffic in Women for Prostitution from the Newly Independent States, Gillian Caldwell, Steven Galster and Nadia Steinzor, Global Survival Network, 1997.

 

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