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Human trafficking
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Stacked Odds: How lifelong inequality shapes women and girls' experience of modern slavery
Gender inequality is a determinant in the prevalence of modern-day slavery, Walk Free's report finds. 1 in every 130 women and girls live in modern-day slavery. This report examines how women and girls are particularly vulnerable to modern-day slavery th
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trafficking in Persons: Preliminary findings and messaging based on rapid stocktaking
While it may seem that the restrictions placed on our societies in light of the COVID-19 crisis--such as lockdowns, travel bans, and restricted economic activities--would dissuade crime and human trafficking, UNODC reveals that it may just drive it furthe
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"You Pray for Death": Trafficking of women and girls in Nigeria
This report discusses the human rights abuses suffered by Nigerian women and girls who are trafficked for sexual and labor exploitation within and outside Nigeria. It also records the experiences of foreign women who are trafficked into Nigeria, mostly fo
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Young Invisible Enslaved: Children victims of trafficking and labour exploitation in Italy
The 2017 Young Invisible Enslaved Dossier highlights the cruel practices many unaccompanied children arriving in Italy are subject to at the hands of traffickers. Through the voices and stories told by boys and girls exploited sexually and through labour
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A Child is a Child: Protecting children on the move from violence, abuse and exploitation
Due to the few opportunities for legal movement and migration, many of the children who are move alone are forced to rely on smugglers, putting them at risk for hazardous and exploitative situations. Traffickers and other exploitative persons thrive espec
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Migrant Smuggling Data and Research: A global review of the emerging evidence base
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has released this global review of the emerging evidence on migrant smuggling. It shows a unique perspective on the current evidence and data on migrant smuggling and what can be done to build on the exis
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Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2016
The third of its kind, the 2016 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons covers 136 countries and provides an overview of patterns and flows of human trafficking at global, regional, and national levels. The UNODC, having systematically collected dat
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Addressing Human Trafficking and Exploitation in Times of Crisis: Evidence and recommendations for further action to protect vulnerable and mobile populations
Human trafficking, or Trafficking in Persons (TiP) as it is referred to in this report, is a serious crime with grave human rights violations that is, according to the International Organization on Migration (IOM), largely overlooked in crisis situations
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Surf Safely
It is estimated that every fourth girl and every sixth boy in the North West Balkans are exposed to sexual abuse. This is the story of Save the Children’s six-year effort to keep children safe in the North West Balkans. Save the Children has contacted the
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Detained Youth: The fate of young migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees in Libya today
This study provides information on the current and ongoing detention of young migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees in Libya. Through in-depth interviews with former detainees, serious violations are revealed to have occurred in Libya’s immigration detent
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Human trafficking. Trauma and Psychotherapy: A collection of papers
Within the project Not for Sale! Building towards consensus on combating human trafficking in Serbia, ASTRA has published a collection of papers on psychotherapeutic work with trafficking survivors. The collected papers “Human Trafficking: Trauma and Psyc
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The Global Slavery Index 2013
The Global Slavery Index Report 2013 published by the Walk Free Foundation. Modern slavery includes slavery, slavery-like practices, human trafficking and forced labour. Key finding from this inaugural Index is that there are an estimated 29.8 million pe