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Ukraine is a country located in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest country in Europe, with a population of over 42 million people. Ukraine has a rich and complex history, and it has been influenced by a variety of different cultures and civilizations. The official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian, and the country has a unitary parliamentary republic system of government.
Ukraine has a mixed economy, with a significant agricultural sector and a growing industrial and service sector. Some of Ukraine’s major cities include Kiev, Kharkiv, and Odessa.
Despite knowing the risks, we continue to turn away from the children of Ukraine While the full-scale war in Ukraine continues after a year, thousands of civilians, including that of children, are added to the list of those that have since lost their lives. But Ukrainian children also face another silent and underreported battle. They…
As travel demand continues to surge, Marriott International (MAR) is spearheading a movement to address one of the biggest social issues in the hotel industry. “Human trafficking is a scourge on humanity, and unfortunately, a lot of it happens using hotels as an environment,” Marriott International President and CEO Anthony Capuano told Yahoo Finance Live…
By Aurora Weiss VIENNA (IDN) — The COVID-19 pandemic has increased human trafficking using social networks and the Internet as a platform, Lead Author of the UNODC Global Reports on Trafficking in Persons, Fabricio Sarrica, told IDN. He was highlighting some salient aspects of the 2022 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, the seventh…
Pedro Yudel Bruzon was looking for someone in the U.S. to support his effort to seek asylum when he landed on a Facebook page filled with posts demanding up to $10,000 for a financial sponsor. It’s part of an underground market that’s emerged since the Biden administration announced it would accept 30,000 immigrants each month arriving by air…
Russia is being hit with a new punishment for its war with Ukraine. On Monday, Bloomberg reported the U.S. government would put a 200% tariff on Russian aluminum imports. But, only speculators will benefit from this one. Russia is a minor supplier to the U.S. Russia accounts for roughly 2.3% of aluminum imported to the…
According to the United Nations Global Report on Trafficking in Persons for 2022, the number of people detected as trafficked dropped by 11 percent last year. While this is the first decline in 20 years, one of the report’s authors said it isn’t necessarily a cause for celebration. “We have not really seen a decrease…
Editor’s note: while this doesn’t specifically call out trafficking, the resources for the EV market are an important anti-trafficking battleground. This is supplied for your research. The artificial mound covers a radioactive pond from when the town covertly processed uranium for the Soviet nuclear industry until 1989. Today, the adjacent facilities are home to oil…
The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill In a speech last year announcing the release of the latest Trafficking In Persons Report, U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken cited a startling statistic: right now, nearly 25-million individuals around the world are being forced into labor or the…
Displaced populations such as Ukrainian refugees are a known cause for spikes in human trafficking cases, according to the 2022 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, published on Tuesday (24 January). “Analysis shows a relationship between the people forced to flee Ukraine in 2014 and 2015 as a result of the conflict in the eastern…
Evidence is emerging that climate-related disasters are becoming a cause of human trafficking as criminal gangs exploit a growing number of uprooted people, the UN said Tuesday. The continuing war in Ukraine is also another risk factor for increased human trafficking, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a report. The…
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