Ukrainians face rape, trafficking risk while those in Poland cannot access abortion

Ukrainian women fleeing the war are at risk of sexual violence, rape, and trafficking and those who are pregnant as a result cannot get an abortion in Poland due to one of Europe’s strictest anti-abortion laws.

Nadia, a Ukrainian refugee from Odesa (L) gets some rest during a bus trip of Ukrainian refugees from Moldova to Germany, on a road in Romania, the evening of 16 March 2022. Some 73 Ukrainians, women, children, and a few men fled the conflict mostly from the southern Ukraine area, boarded the bus organized by the Be An Angle German NGO, to travel to safety in Germany. [EPA-EFE/AMEL PAIN]

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