According to the International Organization for Migration, at the moment the number of trafficked women from Kyrgyzstan for the global sex industry constitutes around 4,000, which puts the country among the leading countries in human trafficking. The majority of women are taken to the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and to some other countries. The trafficking in Kyrgyzstan has become established to such a degree that special firms have developed, which claim to provide highly paid work abroad without requiring special skills or qualifications from potential employees. Today many newspapers in Kyrgyzstan are full with ads such as \"attractive girls wanted for well paid work abroad\", \"beautiful girls wanted as dancers\", etc. Most of the trafficked women, especially minors, are taken to the destination countries using fraudulent passports and the majority of them are enslaved into prostitution. In an interview with RFE/RL, the Head of the Crisis Centers Association in Kyrgyzstan, Mairam Tilebalieva, said that international human traffickers are assisted by the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic that issues passports, and by border guards. According to her, the passport issuing system should be strictly controlled, and if necessary made more complex. International organizations as well as the Kyrgyz government have been making efforts to deal with this problem. The Press Secretary of the International Organization for Migration, Bakyt Omurzakov, told that the problem is exacerbated by the lack of people\'s knowledge about their rights and general unawareness of the problem. According to Omurzakov, the IOM is conducting an information campaign in an attempt to raise awareness among people and to prevent women from getting caught in trafficking. Last year on April 21, the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Askar Akayev, signed a decree on \"measures to combat smuggling of and trafficking in human beings\", in which a special program was adopted and tasks of the government ministries were specified. Also, a national council headed by State Secretary Osmonakun Ibraimov was established. According to one of the members of this council and the employee of the Migration Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gulaida Orozalieva, a working group was established within the national council, the task of which was to take care of the amendments to be made to the Criminal and Administrative Code of the republic, because there is no well-specified law, which would prosecute individuals for crimes related to human trafficking. Some people estimate the work of this council and the government in general as poor. According to Mairam Tilebalieva, the council has never done any report on its work and the government has been indifferent about this issue. She was even told by some employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that a big problem is being created although the number of trafficked women is insignificant, Tilebalieva adds. Others such as parliamentary deputy Kubat Baibolov argue that reforming the law will not solve the problem. Instead, the government should improve the economic and social situation in the country. The situation in Kyrgyzstan is in indeed very hard, especially for women, who make up the majority of the unemployed. However, the problem is complex and explaining it by one single factor is not sufficient. Along with the improvement of the economic and social situation, the presence of good legislation as well as international cooperation is essential for its solution.