An information war about the Russia-Ukraine conflict is continuing online even as troops clash on the ground, with bots spreading disinformation and Russian state media seeking to divide Western viewers. A viral Facebook post from April 2 claims Ukraine is the money laundering and child sex trafficking "capital of the world. But experts don't rank Ukraine as the worst in either human trafficking or money laundering. Follow us on Facebook!
Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunks. Though several organizations track data about human trafficking, there is no exact country-by-country index for child sex trafficking in particular, according to Kristen Leanderson Abrams , senior director of combatting human trafficking at the McCain Institute.
A report by the International Labour Organization stated that in , an estimated 6 million children were enslaved worldwide, with 1. In , an estimated Department of State. Abrams noted that, for human trafficking in general, the State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons report is the "gold standard. The report divides countries into four categories depending on each country's efforts to fight human trafficking, using criteria from the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of Tier 1 indicates that a country fully complies with the minimum standards of the protection act, while Tier 2 means that while a country is not fully compliant, it is making "significant efforts" to reach full compliance.
Tier 3 indicates that a country's government does not comply with standards and is not making efforts to do so. The most recent report , from , places Ukraine in Tier 2, along with countries such as Denmark, Germany and Japan. Abrams also pointed out work by anti-trafficking advocacy groups Walk Free, the International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration. While the groups create multiple reports on modern slavery, their Global Slavery Index looks at modern slavery data on a country-by-country basis.
In the most recent index report from , governments are rated on a scale from A to D, with intermediate rankings like BBB and CCC, depending on their response to modern slavery within their borders. The Netherlands is the only country with an "A" rating, while the U.
