April 3, 2022

"The vast majority of those leaving Ukraine are women and girls and the vast majority of those trafficked are women and girls so you can see the math is not good. It’s a toxic cocktail of risk."

Said Val Richey, "a special representative for combating human trafficking at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe," quoted in "Ukraine refugees go from one hell to another as abusers exploit women and children/People traffickers pretending to be doctors and Good Samaritans are taking advantage of border chaos to deceive evacuees" (London Times).

Some young Ukrainians are taking matters into their own hands. Every day after online lessons, Tymur Tsaplienko and his best friend Dasha Griban, both 16, head to Warsaw Central station where they don hi-vis jackets and hand out blue and yellow leaflets to arriving refugees, warning them not to travel alone and to photograph numberplates of cars.

18 comments:

gilbar said...

what will this do to world prostitution prices? Will this influx glut the market?

tim in vermont said...

Remember when Obama and Bided backed that coup in 2014 to overthrow th neutral government in Ukraine? Civil war ever since. Good times. What a great move. Masterful statecraft. But we are giving Putin a bloody nose, and you know he is the true eminece grise behind Trump, so all of this war and dislocation is worth it.

Humperdink said...

Speaking of masterful statecraft .... "Ukraine, give up your nukes and we will protect you" (Bill Clinton). Crimea annexed (Obama administration) "Let's drop hints that Ukraine will join NATO." (Biden administration) "Hey Vlad, minor incursions into Ukraine are OK with me" (The Big Guy himself).

mezzrow said...

Dark triad individuals are opportunists without scruples. This whole thing is a layer cake of tragedy - the kind of vulnerability and uncertainty these people face is unimaginable to almost everyone reading this comment. Some of us will pray, some will brood, some will actually take concrete action.

There's a lot going on right now. Pick a spot. Helping those in this situation is as close to an unambiguous good deed as anything I can imagine. The displaced deserve a safe place.

Howard said...

Yes Tim. If Obama and Biden didn't help Ukraine in 2014, Vlads invasion in 2022 would have been a cakewalk like you Tucker and Trump were hoping and praying for. Instead, We helped them defend themselves from your Neo-Stalin hero.

n.n said...

The Biden/Maidan/Slavic Spring, eight years, then two years, in progress.

Temujin said...

There are bad people and then there are truly evil people. Those who would look at this situation in Ukraine where millions of people are being displaced and the vast majority being women and children, and think to themselves, "Well, this would be a good time to start up a human trafficking business." need to find their last minutes on earth spent with a hot poker up their ass.

I note what humans do to one another, have always done to one another, and will continue to do to one another and I wonder how we've gotten this far. At some point you would think we could evolve beyond the horrors we commit on each other, but daily it seems like we've not moved much since we crawled out of the caves. Same stuff is happening. Only our clothes have changed.

Gerda Sprinchorn said...

The vast majority of those leaving Ukraine are women and girls and the vast majority of those trafficked are women and girls so you can see the math is not good. It’s a toxic cocktail of risk.

Pretty poor logic here. Hard to point out a specific fallacy because the logic is so weak I can't even tell what they think they are proving.

David Begley said...

There is still evil in the world.

Caroline said...

The war in Ukraine is exposing another sort of exploitation of women, a sprawling surrogacy industry supplying gay couples with their trophy babies. Apparently these women must give birth inside Ukraine for the contract to be valid. Exploitation all around. To say nothing of the outrageous injustice to the children.

John henry said...

From the old Sally Ann song:

My father's a poor missionary,
Saving the young girls from sin,
He'll save you a Uke for a C-note
Oh lord how the money rolls in.

Haven't hookers always been a major Ukrainian export?

What's different now?

This, and real NAZIs and real industrial level corruption of us pols and politics.

That's what a lot of you are supporting, folks.

Not that the Russians are much better. A pox on both sides.

John LGBTQBNY Henry

gilbar said...

Gerda Sprinchorn said...
I can't even tell what they think they are proving.

That's just because they're afraid to say any of it out loud. You have to watch him blink his eyelids (AND, know morse code ). He's Really Saying:
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Wince said...

Said Val Richey, "a special representative for combating human trafficking at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Can anyone even name the Biden administration's point person for combating human trafficking at the US southern border?

Darkisland said...

I just read that Russian mail order brides are now 75% off normal list price.

n.n said...

Crimea annexed (Obama administration)

Crimea was "annexed" following the Maidan coup/Slavic Spring. With Ukrainians disenfranchised, under assault by a Kiev-aligned military and paramilitary axis, and denied essential services, the residents voted to join with Russia. Now (no pun intended), the Russians were, of course, pleased to recognize their vote for separation. Eight year later, the attacks by the Kiev axis are still in progress, offering a moral platform to justify a Russian peacekeeping mission a.k.a. "invasion" to neutralize the oppressive aligned powers. And then there are the Wuhan-style labs, human trafficking, and other illicit activities. What is a Biden/America to do.

Narayanan said...

any doubt about similar activity in USA open border policy?

Narayanan said...

any doubt about similar activity in USA open border policy?

Rosalyn C. said...

I wonder about all the people coming into the US illegally, or is illegality not even an issue anymore?

I looked at a video of sweet looking young women and men being processed by Border agents and wondered what are these immigrants were going to do to support themselves? Will every upper middle class family now be able to afford gardeners and nannies and servants? Every middle manager can now afford a mistress? Is that the Biden agenda which no one is saying out loud?