NGOs’ Statement on Protection Measures for Trafficked Persons in Western Europe

November 2003Migration and trafficking

NGOs from five Western European countries — Germany (KOK) , Greece (STOP NOW), Italy (On the Road), The Netherlands (STV) and United Kingdom (Eaves Housing for Women and Anti-Slavery International) — presented this joint statement on protection measures for trafficked people at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw in October 2003.
Stresses the need for appropriate measures for the identification of trafficked people to prevent their immediate deportation, need of right to a reflection delay, temporary or permanent residency status for trafficked people and need for means to ensure that the residency status allows the trafficked person full social inclusion.