Guidelines on Trafficking in Human Beings for the Criminal Justice Chain in Ukraine
- Document number
- 1100
- Date
- 2006
- Title
- Guidelines on Trafficking in Human Beings for the Criminal Justice Chain in Ukraine
- Author/publisher
- Marjan Wijers, Roelof Haveman, European Union, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis, Training Material/Resources,
- Keywords
- Victim (of trafficking); Trafficked persons, Protection, Assistance, Criminal proceedings; Legal assistance, Compensation, Civil Law Suit, Slavery, Servitude, Forced Labour, Removal of organs, Illegal adoption, International Human Rights Law, Organized Crime, Repatriation; Return; Corruption
- Summary
- Five years ago we wrote a review of the law on trafficking in persons in Ukraine. The main focus of the report was on substantive criminal law, i.e. the crime definitions of trafficking in human beings. The current report is a follow up to this 2001 report, and focuses in particular on the criminal procedural law. Compared to five years ago many improvements have taken place. The Code of Criminal Proceedings has been amended and several other laws have been adopted, improving among other factors the position of the victim/witness in criminal proceedings. We may conclude now that the law in the books has considerably been improved; however in action the law is less effective than it could be. It is not always clear where in particular the criminal justice system lacks in efficacy. Some point to the police, other to investigators, others again to prosecutors and judges. All may be true or false. It, however, shows that the criminal justice system is a chain of subsequent steps by various actors.
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