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Human Trafficking

a guide to resources for researching human trafficking

United Nations

General Assembly of the United Nations

General Assembly Thematic Debate on Human Trafficking
3 June 2008
Background Paper for the General Assembly Thematic Debate on Human Trafficking [PDF]
Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons [PDF]
Trafficking in Women and Girls
UN General Assembly report A/69/224. 1 August 2014.

United Nations Resolutions

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
a search of their site produces many documents, especially those with a regional or country focus.

UNDP search: trafficking (human OR persons)

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

UNHCR and Human Trafficking
Refugee Protection and Human Trafficking: Selected Legal Reference Materials
Who are the victims of human trafficking?
Webcast of a program featuring testimony from victims is available [in menu on right - scroll down to Webcast.
Held at UN Headquarters in New York in November 2009. (requires Real Media player).

UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund

Child Protection from Violence, Exploitation, and Abuse
Understand Child Trafficking [PDF]
Textbook 1 of the Training Manual to Fight Trafficking in Children for Labour, Sexual and Other Forms of Exploitation.
Action against child trafficking at policy and outreach levels [PDF]
Textbook 2 of the Training Manual to Fight Trafficking in Children for Labour, Sexual and Other Forms of Exploitation
Matters of Process [PDF]
Textbook 3 of the Training Manual to Fight Trafficking in Children for Labour, Sexual and Other Forms of Exploitation

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

UN Women
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.

UN Specialized Agencies

Human Trafficking: A Brief Overview [PDF]
World Bank. Social Development Notes [Conflict, Crime, and Violence] No. 122
Slavery and Human Trafficking International Law and the Role of the World Bank [PDF]
World Bank SP (Social Protection and Labor) Discussion Paper No. 0904. April 2009.
Brief on the Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930
International Labour Organization Brief.
Regulating recruitment: labour and criminal justice responses in preventing trafficking in persons and migrant exploitation
International Labour Organization Workshop. 18-19 November 2014.
Human Trafficking and Forced Labour
ILO-New York human trafficking site.
ILO Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
International Labour Office. Geneva, 2008.
Counter-Trafficking
International Organization for Migration website.

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