{"id":390295,"date":"2014-06-09T18:17:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T15:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/?p=390295"},"modified":"2014-06-09T18:17:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T15:17:44","slug":"how-do-moldovan-women-get-to-turkey-and-are-sexually-exploited-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/how-do-moldovan-women-get-to-turkey-and-are-sexually-exploited-video\/","title":{"rendered":"How do Moldovan women get to Turkey and are sexually exploited? \/ VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Trafficking in human beings is a widespread phenomenon in the Republic of Moldova. According to a U.S. State Department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/documents\/organization\/210740.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, Moldova is a source country for men, women and children subjected to sex trafficking. The victims are trafficked both within the country and abroad, in states like Turkey, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Lebanon, Italy, Spain, and the \u201cTurkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Organized Crime and Corruption Report Project (<a href=\"https:\/\/reportingproject.net\/occrp\/\" target=\"_blank\">OCCRP<\/a>) traveled to Moldova to talk with Viorica Ursu, who is a convicted human trafficker.<\/p>\n<p>Watch her story below.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Trafficking in human beings is a widespread phenomenon in the Republic of Moldova. According to a U.S. State Department report, Moldova is a source country for men, women and children subjected to sex trafficking. The victims are trafficked both within the country and abroad, in states like Turkey, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Greece, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Trafficking in human beings is a widespread phenomenon in the Republic of Moldova. According to a U.S. State Department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/documents\/organization\/210740.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, Moldova is a source country for men, women and children subjected to sex trafficking. 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