1. International Training Associates, Inc Jonesboro, Arkansas Trafficking in Persons: An Investigative and Prosecutorial Training Program ITA copyright@2009 All Rights Reserved
3. “ It is incomprehensible that trafficking in human beings is taking place in the 21 st Century incomprehensible but true.” “Trafficking leaves no land untouched, including our own.” Colin L. Powell Secretary of State ITA copyright@2009 All Rights Reserved
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12. Russia, Yugoslavia, Poland, and the Czech and Slovak Republics To Bangkok and Pattaya ITA copyright@2009 All Rights Reserved
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17. Approximately 10,000 women are trafficked for sexual exploitation each year from nearby countries to replace Thai women who have moved on to other roles in the sex industry. ITA copyright@2009 All Rights Reserved
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24. Ukraine estimates that 400K of its female citizens have been sold into prostitution in the last decade. ITA copyright@2009 All Rights Reserved
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26. The United States as a destination country It is estimated that between 18,000 and 20,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year (June 2003). ITA copyright@2009 All Rights Reserved
Women are trafficked from South America to Thailand as well. Women from Thailand are trafficked to the Netherlands and Germany of the European Union, Japan, Australia, India, Malaysia and the Middle East. <number>
Lin Lean Lam, The Sex Sector (International Labor Organization, 1998), pp. 130-69.Cindy Sui, “Trafficking of women and Children on the Rise in East Asia: UNICEF,” Agence France Presse, 14 May 2001.
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Two Thai nationals pleaded guilty to trafficking Thai women in Texas in August 2000. The Thai women were trafficked into Houston, Texas and taken to “modeling studios” where they were going to be forced into prostitution until they paid off the $40K trafficking fee.
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Kay Johnson and Khieu, “I Can’t Control Brothel-Going Officials, Says PM at Launch,” South China Morning Post, 7 March 2000.Perla Aragon-Choudhury, “Successful (uphill) Battle against Exploiting Women,” Business World, 28 September 2001.Women’s Organizations of Burma and Women’s Affairs Department, National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, “Burma: The Current State of Women-Conflict Area Specific: A Shadow report to the 22d Session of CEDAW,” 6 January 2000.
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Approximately forty to fifty-K women leave the Ukraine per year. These women are highly educated, speak multiple languages,but are very naive in the ways of the world due to the manner in which they are regarded in the Ukraine. Ukrainian women while highly educated are in fact marginal citizens.
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11 traffickers were arrested. Suspicion was aroused when Border Patrol Agents began to notice a large number of Ukrainian women trying to enter the U.S. without proper documentation.Utilized same routes used to smuggle illegal immigrants.