Sex trafficking in Mongolia

[2] Mongolian citizens, primarily women and girls, have been sex trafficked within Mongolia and to other countries in Asia and different continents.

The rapid growth of mining and other industries in twenty-first century Mongolia has led to an increase in sex trafficking in the country.

[2] Sex trafficked victims have been sent to businesses supporting transportation links, including coal routes, with China.

[4] At the border and in the Gobi Desert are global mining sector and other heavy industry operations with large workforces of isolated men.

[2] The Human Security Policy Studies Centre, headquartered in Ulaanbaatar, fights against sex trafficking in Mongolia.

Mongolian and foreign victims are sex trafficked into and out of the provinces of Mongolia . They are raped and physically and psychologically harmed in brothels, hotels, businesses, homes, and other locations within these administrative divisions. [ 1 ]