Humanitarian Protection & Counter-trafficking: Focus on Ukraine

The majority of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing the violence resulting from the war in Ukraine are women and children. Displacement uproots their lives, disrupts their social networks and increases their vulnerability to human trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation and abuse. Chissey Mueller (Senior Protection Coordinator) and Iryna Mydlovets (National Protection Officer) from IOM Ukraine will provide an update and overview of counter-human trafficking and protection issues in Ukraine. The briefing will include an overview of mobility trends, protection threats (forms of harm), protection needs and responses, and IOM’s programming in Ukraine.

A light lunch with be served.

Sponsored by: Humanitarian Action Initiative, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs at the George Washington University