There is no special article in the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan on punishment for traffic women. However, in the chapter of the fourth “Crime against sexual freedom” there is Article 121 “The Woman forces to Information”.

Every year in the world, 4,000,000 people become victims of human trafficking, which brings to criminal syndicates up to $ 7 billion of annual illegal profit 2. According to the security and cooperation organization in Europe (OSCE), only in 1997 from the CIS countries, Central and Eastern Europe to the countries of Western Europe and North America, 750,000 women and minor girls were taken out.

Kharkov Center for Gender Research (HCGI) http://www.gender.univer.kharkov.ua/ Kharkov Center for Gender Research (HCGI) operates at two levels: as a public organization and as a university program, the first program for women's research in Ukraine. HCGI collaborates with female organizations, conducts research, is engaged in educational activities.

Trade of women from the republics of the former Soviet Union is one of the most massive and tragic problems of our time and one of the most unexpected consequences of the collapse of the USSR. At the end of the Soviet period in the country there was a class of highly educated, having constant work of women. Prostitution was harshly suppressed by state ideology and law enforcement and was not any noticeable part of Soviet life.

Dear readers and readers! This time, the next special release of our magazine is dedicated to the topic that we had very little and mostly indistinctly talked about - by the last time - the trade in women. Millions of citizens of the USSR and other socialist countries, dreaming at the dawn of perestroika about open borders and the opportunity to travel freely around the world, sincerely believed that this freedom would enrich each person separately and the state of the Eastern Bloc as a whole.

On May 15, in Barnaul, the Information and Educational Promotion “The Week of the Unlawful Removal of Women and Girls” began, which takes place as part of a large-scale traffic prevention program (the export of women abroad for sexual exploitation). It is implemented by the non -profit partnership of the Altai Territory "Women's Alliance" with the support of the Council on International Research and Exchange (IREX).

According to the US State Department (the first report of the US State Department on human trafficking in the countries of the world, 2001), at least 700,000 people, mainly women and children, are sold and redirected through state borders annually. Some observers believe that this figure is really much higher (more than 1,000,000 is Anita Botti's report, hearing in the US Congress, July 28, 1999).

Unemployment and poverty, social insecurity are characteristic of Kazakhstan as any other post -socialist country that has difficulties in transition to the market. These circumstances, together with the imperfection of the legal system and corruption, could not but contribute to the growth of organized crime, including its new manifestation, which until recently was known in Kazakhstan, women trade.

The problem of human trafficking affects and can affect everyone: women, men, girls and boys. Nevertheless, according to the available evidence (OSCE materials, 1999, is available to: www.cia.gov/csi/monograph/woman/trafficking.pdf), as in the case of domestic violence, most victims of human trade are women and girls. It is important to pay attention to some differences in the problem of home and sexual violence from the problem of women trading.

Trade of people. Sociocriminological analysis/ under the general edition of E.V. Tyurukanova and L.D. Erokhina. M.: Academia, 2002. 224 p. Table., Bibl. What is modern slavery, what is often called human trafficking? What are his prerequisites, specific features, consequences? What is the connection with the processes of globalization, the expansion of the world market? What is related to this phenomenon in post -socialist countries?

On June 27, in Yekaterinburg in the conference hall of the Iset Hotel, a round table "Program to prevent the illegal removal of women and girls and the dissemination of information" was held. Within the framework of the round table, there was a discussion on the dissemination of information and conducting information campaigns to prevent illegal trafficking in people, media interaction with public organizations to prevent sexual exploitation of women.

Slave trade in the Caucasus: traditions and modernity Creation of an economic justification of the programs developed. We also believe that special units with proper powers should be created in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose competence will be exclusively issues related to the problem of women trade. We believe that it is not only important, but also be sure to create shelters for the victims of the traffic.

Returning to a native country without documents, money, with an undermined health and duty to the mafia is not the most attractive prospect, but often in this position many Russian women who have become victims of international trafficking in people find themselves. However, this summer, at least the residents of St.

On June 21, a round table "Myths and reefs of work abroad" was held in Barnaul. Its organizer was the non -profit partnership “Women's Alliance” in the framework of the program “Prevention of the illegal export of women and girls abroad”. One of the main objectives of the meeting was to discuss the problem of the truffy and the ideas of its prevention in the Altai Territory.

In recent years, the operation of women and children in the Russian Federation has turned into a business that brings billions of profit, the author of a report prepared by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is warned. The criminal syndicates are transported annually to all corners of the world thousands of women who turn into sexual slaves, authorities are powerless or consciously turn a blind eye to this.