Trafficking: resources, specialist organisations and guides to the mechanisms

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Description: WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? "Human trafficking involves men, women and children being brought into a situation of exploitation through the use of violence, deception or coercion and forced to work against their will. People can be trafficked for many different forms of exploitation such as forced prostitution, forced labour, forced begging, forced criminality, domestic servitude, forced marriage, forced organ removal..."
Source/publisher: Anti-Slavery International
Date of entry/update: 2010-12-26
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: "GAATW's mission is to ensure that the human rights of migrant women are respected and protected by authorities and agencies. We advocate for the incorporation of human rights standards in all anti-trafficking initiatives, including in the implementation of the Trafficking Protocol, Supplementary to the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime (2000). GAATW strives to promote and share good practices of anti-trafficking initiatives but also to critique and stop bad practices and harm caused by existing practices. GAATW promotes women migrant workers' rights and believes that ensuring safe migration and protecting rights of migrant workers should be at the core of all anti-trafficking efforts. We advocate for living and working conditions that provide women with more alternatives in their countries of origin, and to develop and disseminate information to women about migration, working conditions and their rights. We support the self-organisation of women migrant workers, ensuring their presence and self-representation in international fora. GAATW aims to build new alliances among various sectors of migrants."
Source/publisher: GAATW
Date of entry/update: 2005-05-20
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Espanol, Spanish, Russian
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Description: "In its many projects and advocacy activities, the ILO addresses trafficking from a labour market perspective. It thereby seeks to eliminate the root causes, such as poverty, lack of employment and inefficient labour migration systems. ILO led responses involve labour market institutions, such as public employment services, labour inspectors and labour ministries. Moreover, as a tripartite organisation, the ILO consults and involves workers? and employers? organisations in its work. This paper serves to outline ILO?s major areas of intervention, some lessons learned and further references..."
Source/publisher: International Labour Office
Date of entry/update: 2010-12-26
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Active site with lots of documents..."As a United Nations specialized agency, and a leader in the fight against the worst forms of child labour and exploitation, the ILO is playing a major role in the fight against human trafficking. In 2003, following a three-year pilot phase, and through the work of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), the ILO launched phase II of a five-year project to prevent trafficking in children and women in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS). The Mekong Sub-Regional Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and Women (TICW) works with, and alongside, other UN Agencies, Save the Children UK, other NGOs, Governments, employers' and workers' groups, to help equip Governments and civil society to deal with migration, the growing threat of human trafficking and resulting exploitative labour. Much of the work is carried out at source -- in villages and rural areas where ill-prepared, uninformed migration begins, and at destination -- the towns and cities where most of the exploitation takes place. From small villages in Cambodia, China's Yunnan Province, Lao PDR and Viet Nam, to major urban centres like Bangkok, Thailand, the project is mobilizing communities. It is working with and through children to improve their quality of life. "
Source/publisher: International Labour Organisation (Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific)
Date of entry/update: 2008-05-03
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Language: English
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Description: "The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) is a non-governmental organization that promotes women?s human rights. It works internationally to combat sexual exploitation in all its forms..."
Source/publisher: The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW)
Date of entry/update: 2003-07-27
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Language: English
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Topic: Khawng Nu’s story
Topic: Khawng Nu’s story
Description: "This story was originally published on Medium.com/@UN_Women Across the world, millions of women and girls live in the long shadows of human trafficking. Whether ensnared by force, coercion, or deception, they live in limbo, in fear, in pain. Because human trafficking operates in darkness, it’s difficult to get exact numbers of victims. However, the vast majority of detected trafficking victims are women and girls, and three out of four are trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Wherever there is poverty, conflict and gender inequality, women’s and girls’ lives are at-risk for exploitation. Human trafficking is a heinous crime that shatters lives, families and dreams. On World Day against Trafficking in Persons, three women survivors tell us their stories. Their words are testament to their incredible resilience and point toward the urgency for action to prosecute perpetrators and support survivors along their journeys to restored dignity, health and hope. Karimova comes full circle. When she was 22 years old, Luiza Karimova left her home in Uzbekistan and travelled to Osh, Kyrgyzstan with the hopes of finding work. However, without a Kyrgyz ID or university degree, Karimova struggled to find employment. When a woman offered her a waitressing job in Bishkek, the capital city in the north of Kyrgyzstan, she welcomed the opportunity..."
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Source/publisher: UN Women via Reliefweb
2019-07-29
Date of entry/update: 2019-10-04
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