Recently, the Vital Voices staff had the opportunity to meet with one of our Vital Voices women, Unursetseg Tsedev, and hear about her latest research findings. After spending a year as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the University of Minnesota, where she researched issues in Mongolian sex trafficking, Unur is now returning home to start her own NGO. Before heading back, however, she took the time to introduce us to her country and the challenges confronting it.

Mongolia – with a population of 2.4 million people and 39 million livestock – is sandwiched between the giants of Russia and China. Unur shared with us that though Mongolia has a literacy rate of 98% and 65-70% of its higher educated students are women, sex trafficking is a serious problem in the country.

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