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Ukraine has actually long been a center of human trafficking and the more unsavory types of pornography. For a while I believe they were actually one of the big

by vGPU 3y ago

Ukraine has actually long been a center of human trafficking and the more unsavory types of pornography. For a while I believe they were actually one of the biggest producers and exporters of CSAM. For example: the arrest of Maksym Shynkarenko was described as the “most successful child pornography investigation in U.S. history” by the government. And before the war really kicked off they were really starting to gain a reputation for sex tourism. As of the latest 2023 report from the US Gov, “The Government of Ukraine does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking”. This is particularly concerning: “Authorities prosecuted and convicted fewer traffickers, and most convicted traffickers avoided imprisonment… for the sixth consecutive year the government did not secure any convictions of complicit officials.” Six years. They’ve let corrupt officials traffic humans with impunity for six years. https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-report/ukraine/ https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-re...

khuey 3y ago
> As of the latest 2023 report from the US Gov, “The Government of Ukraine does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking”. Notably that puts them in the same category as Ireland, Japan, Norway, and Greece on this report. The list of "tier 1" countries is pretty short, much of the world is in "tier 2" with Ukraine.
- vGPU 3y ago
  Yes, but at the same time, I doubt that any of those countries would be able to lay claim to such dubious achievements as “allowing corrupt politicians to sell their people into sex slavery without fear”.
  - johnnyanmac 3y ago
    >, I doubt that any of those countries would be able to lay claim to such dubious achievements as “allowing corrupt politicians to sell their people into sex slavery without fear”. I don't know, I see India, Kenya, and Brazil on that list. It's not exactly ironclad. Besides, all we're arguing here is what has worse PR, not who actually has the worst problems. Tier 2 criteria literally includes "making active efforts to become Tier 1".
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  For reference to these "tiers": Tier 1- Countries whose governments fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. Tier 2 - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards. Tier 2 Watch List - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards, and for which: - the estimated number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing and the country is not taking proportional concrete actions; or - there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year, including increased investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of trafficking crimes, increased assistance to victims, and decreasing evidence of complicity in severe forms of trafficking by government officials. Tier 3 - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.

by vGPU 3y ago

khuey 3y ago

> As of the latest 2023 report from the US Gov, “The Government of Ukraine does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking”. Notably that puts them in the same category as Ireland, Japan, Norway, and Greece on this report. The list of "tier 1" countries is pretty short, much of the world is in "tier 2" with Ukraine.

vGPU 3y ago
Yes, but at the same time, I doubt that any of those countries would be able to lay claim to such dubious achievements as “allowing corrupt politicians to sell their people into sex slavery without fear”.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  >, I doubt that any of those countries would be able to lay claim to such dubious achievements as “allowing corrupt politicians to sell their people into sex slavery without fear”. I don't know, I see India, Kenya, and Brazil on that list. It's not exactly ironclad. Besides, all we're arguing here is what has worse PR, not who actually has the worst problems. Tier 2 criteria literally includes "making active efforts to become Tier 1".
johnnyanmac 3y ago
For reference to these "tiers": Tier 1- Countries whose governments fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. Tier 2 - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards. Tier 2 Watch List - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards, and for which: - the estimated number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing and the country is not taking proportional concrete actions; or - there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year, including increased investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of trafficking crimes, increased assistance to victims, and decreasing evidence of complicity in severe forms of trafficking by government officials. Tier 3 - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.