Little Support for Trafficked Women in Russia

Russia has become a prime source, transit point and destination for trafficking in women — what the U.N. defines as abuse of women involving force, fraud, coercion and deception. [. . .]

Sara Mendelson, director of the Human Rights and Security Initiative with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, says a survey she helped conduct last spring shows that Russian women think this is a serious problem. Thanks to women like Vasilieva, many now are aware of the risk, but Mendelson says effective laws must be put into place.

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