According to the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, since the beginning of 2025, 99 Ukrainian citizens have received the status of victims of human trafficking, while in the first 6 months of 2024 this figure reached 102 people.
REMINDER! The National Police of Ukraine has uncovered 447 cases of human trafficking since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion.
Today, July 30, on World Day against Trafficking in Persons, initiated by the UN General Assembly, we remind you that anyone can be a victim of this crime, regardless of age, social status, or level of education.
It is important to immediately recognize the signs of human trafficking:
- they took away your passport or other documents;
- deprived of free movement and communication with family;
- promised a well-paid job (abroad or in Ukraine), and then did not pay the promised money;
- threatened, beat, raped, abused a person or exerted psychological pressure;
- forced to perform work that the person did not want to do, using physical or psychological violence;
- forced to work off fictitious debts;
- a person's labor was used without paying the promised wages in full or in part;
- the person did not have the opportunity to quit their job of their own free will;
- forced to work overtime, while the actual working conditions were much worse than promised;
- against the person's will, forced to beg, engage in criminal activity, or used in armed conflict and other similar actions.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW what to do in a situation where you or your loved ones are in danger.
First of all, contact the government hotline for combating human trafficking, preventing and combating domestic violence, gender-based violence, and violence against children - 15-47.
You can also get help at the following numbers:
- 0 800 500 202 / 102 "hotline" of the National Police of Ukraine;
- 0 800 213 103 contact center of the free legal aid system;
- 527 «hotline» for combating exploitation;
- 0 800 500 335 or short number 116 123 "hotline" for the prevention of domestic violence, human trafficking and gender discrimination;
- 0 800 500 225 or short number 116 111 national children's hotline.
Information booklets containing information about the risks of human trafficking, ways to avoid them, and hotlines for assistance were developed by the Migration Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine in cooperation with the international non-governmental organization International Justice Mission.
