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Prostitution in Ukraine
Prostitution in Ukraine is illegal but widespread and largely ignored by the government. In recent times, Ukraine has become a popular prostitution and sex trafficking destination. Ukraine is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked transnationally for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation.
Ukraine's dissolution from the Soviet Union, saw the nation attempt to transition from a planned economy to a market economy. The transition process inflicted economic hardship in the nation, with nearly 80% of the population forced into poverty in the decade that followed its independence. Unemployment in Ukraine was growing at an increasing rate, with female unemployment rising to 64% by 1997. The economic decline in Ukraine made the nation vulnerable and forced many to depend on prostitution and trafficking as a source of income. Sex tourism rose as the country attracted greater numbers of foreign tourists.
UNAIDS estimated that there were around 86,600 sex workers in 2016, around 18 sex workers per 10,000 people.
According to the director of the Ukrainian Institute of Social Studies in 2011, there were 50,000 women working as prostitutes with between one out of six and one out of seven prostitutes being a minor. A 2020-2021 demographic survey of thousands of Ukrainians in sex work, conducted in various parts of the country, found a much lower proportion of minors: 95.6% of those in sex work in Ukraine were over 19, and only between 0.5% and 1.5% were minors.
In regards to trafficking, Ukrainian citizens make up 80% of traffickers with 60% being women. Sexual trafficking victims tend to be women and girls between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six.
The Russia-Ukraine war has reduced sex workers’ incomes and made it more difficult to provide support programs such as drug addiction treatment and HIV care. In 2022, 2,300 sex workers were registered in the city of Dnipro, but many more moved to the city to escape the intense fighting. Due to the war, fewer condoms were distributed. The spread of HIV is one of the main concerns.
Ukraine is now known to have a greater number of trafficking victims than any other Eastern European nation after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 1998, the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior estimated that 400,000 Ukrainian women were trafficked during the previous decade; other sources, such as non-governmental organizations, state the number was even higher. According to the International Organization for Migration over 500,000 Ukrainian women have been exploited with trafficking to the West since its independence in 1991 up to 1998.
Ukrainian women have been exported to countries across the world, such as Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Hungary, United Arab Emirates, Syria etc. According to multiple reports the Ukrainian sex-workers are the largest group of foreign women in Turkey involved into prostitution and the second largest group of foreign women involved into prostitution outside the US military bases in Republic of Korea.
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Prostitution in Ukraine
Prostitution in Ukraine is illegal but widespread and largely ignored by the government. In recent times, Ukraine has become a popular prostitution and sex trafficking destination. Ukraine is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked transnationally for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation.
Ukraine's dissolution from the Soviet Union, saw the nation attempt to transition from a planned economy to a market economy. The transition process inflicted economic hardship in the nation, with nearly 80% of the population forced into poverty in the decade that followed its independence. Unemployment in Ukraine was growing at an increasing rate, with female unemployment rising to 64% by 1997. The economic decline in Ukraine made the nation vulnerable and forced many to depend on prostitution and trafficking as a source of income. Sex tourism rose as the country attracted greater numbers of foreign tourists.
UNAIDS estimated that there were around 86,600 sex workers in 2016, around 18 sex workers per 10,000 people.
According to the director of the Ukrainian Institute of Social Studies in 2011, there were 50,000 women working as prostitutes with between one out of six and one out of seven prostitutes being a minor. A 2020-2021 demographic survey of thousands of Ukrainians in sex work, conducted in various parts of the country, found a much lower proportion of minors: 95.6% of those in sex work in Ukraine were over 19, and only between 0.5% and 1.5% were minors.
In regards to trafficking, Ukrainian citizens make up 80% of traffickers with 60% being women. Sexual trafficking victims tend to be women and girls between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six.
The Russia-Ukraine war has reduced sex workers’ incomes and made it more difficult to provide support programs such as drug addiction treatment and HIV care. In 2022, 2,300 sex workers were registered in the city of Dnipro, but many more moved to the city to escape the intense fighting. Due to the war, fewer condoms were distributed. The spread of HIV is one of the main concerns.
Ukraine is now known to have a greater number of trafficking victims than any other Eastern European nation after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 1998, the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior estimated that 400,000 Ukrainian women were trafficked during the previous decade; other sources, such as non-governmental organizations, state the number was even higher. According to the International Organization for Migration over 500,000 Ukrainian women have been exploited with trafficking to the West since its independence in 1991 up to 1998.
Ukrainian women have been exported to countries across the world, such as Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Hungary, United Arab Emirates, Syria etc. According to multiple reports the Ukrainian sex-workers are the largest group of foreign women in Turkey involved into prostitution and the second largest group of foreign women involved into prostitution outside the US military bases in Republic of Korea.
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