31.   Most of the victims are in the rebel-held east where tribal fighters still ambush vehicles, steal cattle and rape and kidnap women.

32.   Russian peacekeepers clashed with a group of Georgian militants trying to kidnap a woman from the breakaway Abhkhazia region, officials said Friday.

33.   The assailants also kidnapped three women who were traveling with the men in three taxis.

34.   Survivors often report that women have been kidnapped.

35.   The court also convicted al-Saadi, a Sunni Muslim fundamentalist, of kidnapping a woman suspected of engaging in prostitution.

36.   The clashes stemmed from the arrest of a soldier accused of kidnapping a woman.

37.   The women were kidnapped by a group calling itself the Viviana Gallardo Commando, believed made up of Costa Rican and Nicaraguan criminals.

38.   The women were kidnapped by a group calling itself the Viviana Gallardo Commando, believed to include Costa Rican and Nicaraguan criminals.

39.   The women are kidnapped or answer advertisements in their home countries for jobs as au pairs, secretaries or waitresses, the report said.

40.   Western European cities are frequent destinations for prostitution rings who recruit or kidnap young women from Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and other eastern countries.