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Ukraine Orphanages Feeder for Child Trafficking
Governments, faith-based groups and churches, aid agencies and volunteer tourists, who donate cash and goods to orphanages or build and refurbish children’s homes and other institutions, may be inadvertently funding human trafficking.
Poor and disabled children, locked away and out of sight from families and their communities, are sitting ducks for traffickers and pedophiles. And nefarious staff are often the beneficiaries of perverse transactions where captive children are the commodity.
My organization, Disability Rights International (DRI), recently released a report — “No Way Home: The Exploitation and Abuse of Children in Ukraine’s Orphanages” — following a three year investigation of the plight of children living in institutional care. DRI found that children are at risk of being trafficked for sex, labor, pornography and organs in a country that is a known hub for human trafficking.
The 2014 U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) stated that, “Children in orphanages and crisis centers continue to be particularly vulnerable to trafficking within Ukraine.”
Inside orphanages, DRI found rampant sexual violence, abuse and rape were commonplace. Children are often recruited directly from orphanages for sex and labor according anti-trafficking organizations in Ukraine.
“There’s huge sexual abuse within the orphanages… So this is a push factor that gets children involved in sexual exploitation, even before they grow up. They’re already used to sexual abuse,” said a Ukraine counter-trafficking expert.
Producers of child pornography go directly to orphanages to seek out their prey. And institutionalized children with disabilities are particularly susceptible to becoming trafficked for their organs. One grandmother of a newborn with Down Syndrome was told by doctors that they could sell the baby for organs and get money.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurie-ahern/ukraine-orphanages-feeder_b_7344882.html
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