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Thumbnail preview of Wrong kind of victim?: one year on: an analysis of UK measures to protect trafficked persons

Wrong kind of victim?: one year on: an analysis of UK measures to protect trafficked persons

Migration and traffickingResearch reportsUK
Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group; Lorena Arocha; Mike Dottridge This report by the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group looks at the government’s flagship ‘National Referral Mechanism’ and concludes that the UK’s new anti-trafficking measures are “not fit for purpose” and the Government is breaching its obligations under the European Convention against Trafficking.  It also finds that the current system places too much emphasis on the immigration status of trafficked people rather than focusing on protecting the victims of this traumatic crime. The report also includes recommendations for the Government to reform the system.
Thumbnail preview of Rights and Recourse: A Guide to Legal Remedies for Trafficked Persons in the UK

Rights and Recourse: A Guide to Legal Remedies for Trafficked Persons in the UK

Migration and traffickingUK

Anti-Slavery International and Eaves Poppy Project
Legal guide by Anti-Slavery International and Eaves Poppy Project warns that victims of trafficking for forced prostitution and forced labour are vulnerable to being re-trafficked because of a failure of the criminal justice system to provide financial compensation for their ordeal. The guide aims to be a starting point to help lawyers take a creative and comprehensive approach in evaluating the legal remedies available to trafficking victims. It also includes two practical case studies and recommendations drawn from the experience of several practitioners in the system.

Thumbnail preview of Opportunities and Obstacles: Ensuring access to compensation for trafficked persons in the UK

Opportunities and Obstacles: Ensuring access to compensation for trafficked persons in the UK

Migration and traffickingUK

Anti-Slavery International 
Although there has been an increase in the number of convictions for humantrafficking in the UK, legal remedies and compensation for traffickedpersons have remained inaccessible. This report identifies the legalremedies available to trafficked persons in England andWales andanalyses the effectiveness of each remedy viewed in light of itsaccessibility to trafficked persons.

Janice Lam & Klára Skrivánková

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Poverty, Development and the Elimination of Slavery

Ending child slavery

Anti-Slavery International, Mike Kaye, Aidan McQuade

Discussion paper.

Collateral Damage 2007: The impact of anti-trafficking measures on human rights around the world

Migration and trafficking

Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW).
This anthology reviews the experience of eight specific countries and attempts to assess what the impact of anti-trafficking measures have been for a variety of people living and working there, or migrating into or out of these countries. The eight are: Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Brazil, India, Nigeria, Thailand, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). The chapters look specifically at what the impact has been on people’s human rights.

Missing Out: A Study of Child Trafficking in the North-West, North-East and West Midlands

Migration and traffickingUK

Christine Beddoe, ECPAT UK
The report highlights the cases of 80 children known or suspected of being trafficked into the UK for sexual exploitation, labour exploitation and forced marriage. More shocking is that 48 of these children have gone missing from social services care and have never been found.

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Trafficking for Forced Labour: UK Country Report

Migration and traffickingUK

Klára Skrivánková, Anti-Slavery International
The result of research carried out by Anti-Slavery International between 2005 and 2006 with the aim of finding out more about trafficking for forced labour in the United Kingdom. This was a qualitative rather than quantative project, which aimed to provide information about how migrants become trafficked and which industries in the UK are affected. Also available an executive summary and policy recommendations.

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Trafficking for Forced Labour in Europe

Migration and traffickingEurope

Anti-Slavery International.

Report on a study in the UK, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Portugal This report looks at the various sectors and industries in which trafficking into forced labour occurs including agriculture, construction, domestic work and hospitality. Includes policy recommendations at a European level.

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Protocol for Identification and Assistance of Trafficked Persons and Training Kit

Migration and trafficking

Anti-Slavery International, Iveta Bartunkova.

This publication is a practical tool for identifying trafficked people.
It provides basic and practical information to those most likely to encounter people who have been trafficked and aims to help make the difficult task of identification easier. The manual includes lists of indicators, checklists and recommends questions for interviewing trafficked people. The training kit is designed for training front-line workers.

Eastern Africa Conference 2005: Report of the Eastern and Horn of Africa Conference on Human Trafficking and Forced Labour

Migration and trafficking

ANPPCAN, Anti-Slavery International.

Details the proceedings and recommendations of the conference held in Nairobi from 5-7 July 2005. The conference discussed contributing factors to trafficking and forced labour, including armed conflict, debt bondage, education and child labour, drugs and transnational crime, and national and international adoption. It also examined various regional and international responses.

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