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	Trafficking in Migrants: IOM Policy and Responses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Trafficked migrants, dependent on agents and employers, are extremely vulnerable to exploitation in an insecure and unfamiliar environment and in need of income to maintain themselves and their families, as well as to pay back the debt incurred to traffickers.
		Traffickers profit from non-existent or relatively lax sanctions in many parts of the world, an insufficient level of coordinated and effective measures taken to eliminate the practice, and a lack of awareness on the part of potential migrants of the dangers of being trafficked.
		IOM is therefore convinced that counselling and legal aid to trafficked migrants in receiving countries can help clarify their legal rights, as well as the opportunities they have in terms of access to social services and health care, and the chances for assisted return and reintegration.
	www.iom.int /en/who/main_policies_trafficking.shtml (4153 words)

	Trafficking in Human Beings
		"Trafficking in persons" is intended to include a range of cases where human beings are exploited by organized crime groups, where there is an element of duress involved and a transnational aspect, such as the movement of people across borders or their exploitation within a country by a transnational organized crime group.
		Trafficking is the "...recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons..." by improper means, such as force, abduction, fraud or coercion, for an improper purpose, like forced or coerced labour, servitude, slavery or sexual exploitation.
		Trafficked persons would be entitled to confidentiality and have some protection against offenders, in general and when they provide evidence or assistance to law enforcement or appear as witnesses in prosecutions or similar proceedings.
	www.unodc.org /unodc/trafficking_protocol.html (888 words)

	Themes : Trafficking
		Trafficking has been found to be integrally linked to the lack of secure livelihoods; it forces large numbers of people to leave their homes, seeking income to improve the living conditions of their families.
		Although trafficking of men and young boys is also taking place within and from the region, evidence from major government and NGO sources indicates that the incidence of trafficking of women and girls over the past decade has escalated considerably.
		Trafficking is part of a pattern of migration, within and across countries, which removes migrants from the protection of their communities and severs them from their systems of social support.
	www.youandaids.org /Themes/Trafficking.asp (2352 words)

	News: TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN - A COMPREHENSIVE EUROPEAN STRATEGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In particular women are in a position of vulnerability to become victims of trafficking due to the feminisation of poverty, gender discrimination, lack of educational and professional opportunities in their countries of origin.
		Women victims of trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation are in general being recruited in social circles in which they are in a position of vulnerability both from material and psychological viewpoints.
		Victims of trafficking are in a particularly vulnerable position for discrimination and social exclusion, which the social inclusion and employment strategies are designed to combat with support from the ESF and other Community programmes.
	europa.eu.int /comm/justice_home/news/8mars_en.htm (6843 words)

	Human Trafficking: Thailand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Within the country, women are trafficked from the impoverished Northeast and the North to Bangkok for labor and sexual exploitation.
		As a destination country, Thailand receives trafficked women, children, and men from Burma, Cambodia, Yunnan Province of China, and Laos for labor and sexual exploitation and, in the case of children, to work in begging gangs.
		A study on Thai women trafficked to Japan found that Thai women’s initial decisions to migrate were almost always voluntary, though many were deceived regarding the amount of debt they would incur, the highly abusive labor conditions and, for some, the nature of the work.
	www.humantrafficking.org /countries/eap/thailand (625 words)

	What is Human Trafficking?
		Traffickers use a wide variety of methods to control their victims, including every form of abuse imaginable - physical, sexual, psychological, emotional, etc. Psychological abuse is usually persistent, extreme and intended to demolish any and all mental, emotional and physical defenses (Stark and Hodgson, 2003).
		Trafficking of children undermines the basic need of a child to grow up in a protective environment and the right to be free from sexual abuse and exploitation.
		Trafficking interrupts the passage of knowledge and cultural values from parent to child and from generation to generation, weakening a core pillar of society.
	www.salvationarmyusa.org /usn/www_usn.nsf/0/8203847f6ba996e585256f25005d5274?OpenDocument (4585 words)

	Trafficking in Human Beings
		Trafficked children are dependent on their traffickers for food, shelter and other basic necessities.
		Trafficking in human beings is a global issue, but a lack of systematic research means that reliable data on the trafficking of human beings that would allow comparative analyses and the design of countermeasures is scarce.
		The Global Programme against Trafficking in Human Beings (GPAT) was designed by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in collaboration with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and launched in March 1999.
	www.unodc.org /unodc/trafficking_human_beings.html (787 words)

	Service Area: Counter-Trafficking - Prevention of human trafficking, assistance and protection to the victims of human ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Trafficking exposes migrants to exploitation and violation of their fundamental human rights.
		Trafficked migrants are often dependent on their agents and employers, and are therefore extremely vulnerable.
		As a consequence, new trafficking routes are regularly established and the market for fraudulent travel documents, clandestine transportation and border crossing has developed worldwide.
	www.iom.int /en/who/main_service_areas_counter.shtml (660 words)

	ATZUM - Human Trafficking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Task Force on Human Trafficking is an apolitical non-denominational NGO dedicated to addressing the growing and alarming problem of human trafficking in Israel.
		Human trafficking is an unspeakable atrocity and a stain on Israel’s international reputation.
		Human Trafficking is one of the fastest growing illicit activities in Israel.
	www.atzum.org /trafficking.htm (496 words)

	Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
		Trafficking in persons is a modern-day form of slavery, involving victims who are typically forced, defrauded or coerced into sexual or labor exploitation.
		A Czech trafficker drove her along with four other young women to Amsterdam where, joined by a Dutch trafficker, Katya was taken to a brothel.
		Traffickers took Khan, an 11-year-old girl living in the hills of Laos, to an embroidery factory in Bangkok.
	www.state.gov /g/tip (703 words)

	DOJ: Trafficking in Persons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Traffickers often prey on individuals who are poor, frequently unemployed or underemployed, and who may lack access to social safety nets, predominantly women and children in certain countries.
		Human trafficking frequently involves the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation, a brutal crime the Department is committed to aggressively investigating and prosecuting.
		The Trafficking in Persons and Worker Exploitation Task Force (TPWETF) was established to provide a coordinated, government-wide effort to prevent trafficking in persons and worker exploitation throughout the United States.
	www.usdoj.gov /trafficking.htm (1889 words)

	Facts About Human Trafficking
		Trafficking in persons is modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation.
		Human trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat: it deprives people of their human rights and freedoms, it is a global health risk, and it fuels the growth of organized crime.
		Because human trafficking is transnational in nature, partnerships between countries are critical to win the fight against modern-day slavery.
	state.gov /r/pa/ei/rls/33109.htm (854 words)

	HumanTrafficking.org: A Web Resource for Combating Human Trafficking in the East Asia Pacific Region
		Workshop on Awareness Raising for Trafficking in Vietnam...
		Trafficking of Vietnamese Women and Children on the China-Vietnam Border...
		Trafficking in Persons Office, US State Dept, Releases Fact Sheet on Child Sex Tourism...
	www.humantrafficking.org (575 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Women’s Human Rights - Trafficking
		Nor was the law particularly dissuasive to traffickers, who continued to bring hundreds of women and girls from the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe into Israel for forced labor in the sex industry.
		Although Israel yielded to international pressure and began prosecuting a small number of traffickers, its efforts were undermined by its failure to provide minimal guarantees for victims of trafficking, including witness protection, legal assistance, relief from deportation, or third-country resettlement.
		With growing awareness of the surge in trafficking, U.N. officials initiated a "trafficking project" in Bosnia in 1999 in cooperation with local nongovernmental organizations and the International Organization on Migration to provide shelter, legal aid, and protection for women who sought to escape their traffickers.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k1/women/women5.html (1080 words)

	Campaign Against the Trafficking of Women and Girls - Human Rights Watch
		Trafficking in persons — the illegal and highly profitable recruitment, transport, or sale of human beings for the purpose of exploiting their labor — is a slavery-like practice that must be eliminated.
		The trafficking of women and children into bonded sweatshop labor, forced marriage, forced prostitution, domestic servitude, and other kinds of work is a global phenomenon.
		In addition, The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 gives the Department of State a historic opportunity to create an office whose exclusive responsibility is the promotion and protection of the rights of those at risk of trafficking and those who have been trafficked.
	www.hrw.org /about/projects/traffcamp/intro.html (575 words)

	Safe Horizon: Trafficking
		To be a victim of trafficking is to be exploited, isolated, violated, and imprisoned.
		Millions of men, women, and children have been trafficked across borders and within countries for the purpose of slave labor typically forced prostitution, bonded sweatshop labor and domestic servitude.
		The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 defines trafficking as the recruitment and/or the transportation of people using violence, the threat of violence, deception, or other forms of coercion to exploit them sexually or economically for the profit or advantage of others.
	www.safehorizon.org /page.php?nav=nb&page=trafficking (370 words)

	Interpol - Trafficking in Human Beings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Trafficking is a subject that divides those who come into contact with it.
		Trafficking in human beings is considered one of the top priorities at Interpol and only by ascertaining the true character of trafficking can we hope to adapt appropriate measures against it.
		Different definitions and expressions are used to describe smuggling of migrants and trafficking in human beings.
	www.interpol.int /Public/THB/default.asp (325 words)

	Anti-Slavery - Anti-Slavery - Trafficking
		It is slavery because traffickers use violence, threats, and other forms of coercion to force their victims to work against their will.
		Human trafficking involves deceiving or coercing someone to move -- either within a country or abroad through legal or illegal channels -- for the purpose of exploiting him or her.
		It is crucial that those who are trafficked are treated as the victims of a human rights violation and not as illegal migrants.
	www.antislavery.org /homepage/antislavery/trafficking.htm (881 words)

	"Trafficking in Persons", Global Issues, U.S. Department of State, June 2003
		Using force, fraud and corruption, coercion and other horrible means, traffickers prey on the powerless, the desperate, and the vulnerable.
		Girls as young as 5 are sold into prostitution; boys as young as 11 are being strong-armed into militias to serve as child soldiers or to perform forced labor for the combatants.
		A nongovernmental organization works to prevent trafficking and protect potential victims in a country that has become one of the greatest sources of women trafficked to the brothels of Europe.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itgic/0603/ijge/ijge0603.htm (949 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Women's Human Rights: Trafficking
		Trafficking in persons — the illegal and highly profitable recruitment, transport, or sale of human beings into all forms of forced labor and servitude, including trafficking into forced marriage — is a tragic and complex human rights abuse.
		In many cases, such as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, corrupt officials facilitate the trafficking, accepting bribes to falsify documents and provide protection.
		For example, Thai trafficking victims in Japan are regularly detained as illegal aliens and deported with a five-year ban on reentering the country.
	www.hrw.org /women/trafficking.html (252 words)

	NATIONAL WORKER EXPLOITATION TASK FORCE
		The Trafficking in Persons and Worker Exploitation Task Force (TPWETF) seeks to prevent trafficking in persons and worker exploitation throughout the United States and to investigate and prosecute cases when such violations occur.
		The Criminal Section draws on its experiences in investigating and prosecuting trafficking cases to assist the Administration in formulating policy to combat trafficking in persons and worker exploitation in a systematic and proactive fashion.
		Trafficking in persons-- often involving the recruitment and smuggling of foreign nationals into the United States to force them to submit to abominable conditions -- amounts to modern-day slavery.
	www.usdoj.gov /crt/crim/tpwetf.htm (853 words)

	Criminal Justice Resources : Human Trafficking
		Trafficking in women and girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation in the form of prostitution, pornography, escorts, and such is a growing phenomenon in Europe and throughout the world.
		Trafficking of women and children for the sex industry and for labor is prevelant in all regions of the United States.
		Trafficking in human beings is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of persons, by means of force or the threat of force.
	www.lib.msu.edu /harris23/crimjust/human.htm (4899 words)

	Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
		We, the survivors of prostitution and trafficking gathered at this press conference today, declare that prostitution is violence against women.
		Jennifer Block’s article on sex trafficking in the Summer/Autumn 2004 issue of Conscience, “Why the Faith Trade Is Interested in the Sex Trade,” caused considerable controversy.
		Trafficking for Prostitution in Italy: Possible Effects of Government Proposals for Legalization of Brothels
	www.catwinternational.org (459 words)

	The War Against Trafficking Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The goal of the world summit was to unite and galvanize efforts worldwide to intervene and stop trafficking and restore devastated lives.
		The follow-up is being led by the War Against Trafficking Alliance in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, international relief organizations, and other country specific government and nongovernmental leaders.
		The goals of the follow-up to the world summit are specific to each country with respect to local progress made in the fight to rescue and restore victims, protect vulnerable populations from this horrible slavery, and bring justice to the traffickers and their clients.
	www.sharedhope.org /war.htm (422 words)

	maitinepal.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The "Cross Border Trafficking in Women and Girls of Nepal: Realities and Remedies" seminar was held in Kolkata, India on 14 July 2005.
		The event was organized by the Royal Nepalese Consulate in Kolkata, Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare of Nepal and Maiti Nepal.
		Over the last decade there have been concrete efforts in Nepal to address the trafficking and their commercial sexual exploitation.
	www.maitinepal.org (375 words)

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		The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (CETS N° 197) was adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 3 May 2005 and opened for signature in Warsaw on 16 May 2005, on the occasion of the 3rd Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe.
		The Convention is a comprehensive treaty mainly focussed on the protection of victims of trafficking and the safeguard of their rights.
		This is why the Organisation is well placed to ensure that its member states adopt measures to fight trafficking in human beings, paying particular attention to the protection of the rights of victims.
	www.coe.int /T/E/human_rights/trafficking (342 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Trafficking in human beings [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Trafficking in human beings (or human trafficking) involves the movement of people (mostly women and children) against their will by means of force for the purpose of sexual or labor exploitation.
		Trafficking is different from people smuggling because it involves the exploitation of people for forced labour and prostitution.
		People smuggling involves people who are willing to pay (using cash or other favors) in order to gain illegal entry into a state or country of which they are neither citizens nor permanent residents.
	encyclozine.com /Human_trafficking (211 words)

	Costa Rica - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Costa Rica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1978 Rodrigo Carazo of the conservative Unity Coalition (CU) became president.
		His presidency was marked by economic collapse and allegations of his involvement in illegal arms trafficking between Cuba and El Salvador.
		In 1982 Luis Alberto Monge, a former trade-union official and cofounder of the PLN, won a convincing victory in the presidential election.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Costa+Rica (1075 words)

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