In 2009, efforts to crack down on human trafficking in Russia focused not only on the men, women, and children who were illegally shipped out of Russia to undergo forced labor and sexual exploitation in other countries, but also those who were illegally brought into Russia from abroad.[1] The Government of the Russian Federation has made significant progress in this area since 1999, but a report commissioned by the United States Department of State in 2010 concluded that much more needed to be done before Russia could be taken off its Tier 3 watchlist.[2]
Russia ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol in May 2004.[3]
The U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons placed the country in "Tier 3" in 2017.[4] The country was still at Tier 3 in 2023,[5] with the U.S. report noting that it was one of eleven countries which were seen as having a documented government policy or pattern of human trafficking.
In 2023, the Organised Crime Index noted that children in the occupied areas of Ukraine were at risk of human trafficking.[6]
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