DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine 22 May 2015 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova, highlighted the risks of modern day slavery in crisis situations during a week-long visit to eastern Ukraine. The United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR recently reported that 1.28 million people have been displaced as a result of the crisis in and around Ukraine. Families and individuals that lose their homes and jobs can easily be exploited by human traffickers. The Special Representative met with displaced persons at Dnepropetrovsk’s Dopomoha Dnipra shelter and at a humanitarian aid distribution centre in Kharkiv …read more
Source: OSCE