NCJ Number
198174
Journal
Trafficking in Migrants Bulletin Issue: 23 Dated: April 2001 Pages: 1-6
Date Published
April 2001
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This bulletin, presents statistics on trafficking based on questionnaires sent to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Field Missions in the year 2000.
Abstract
Arguing that in most countries there are often few statistics on the scale of trafficking, this bulletin presents the findings of a questionnaire addressing the scale of trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation, profiling both victims and current issues in trafficking. Taking a global approach, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) sent its questionnaire to field offices in several different regions including Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Russia, the Ukraine, the Baltics, Western Europe, the Balkans, and Central Europe. Questionnaire results indicate that the victims of trafficking were largely women who were returned from the Balkans to Moldova, Romania, and the Ukraine or returned from Thailand to Cambodia. Questionnaire results also point to the global scale and growing complexity of trafficking with many countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central Europe sending and receiving more and more women for trafficking. The IOM further found that there was scant data on trafficking in Latin American countries and that the pattern of trafficking in Western Europe differed from that of Central and Eastern Europe, with victims of trafficking coming from a much wider range of source countries. 6 Tables