Challenging Trafficking in Persons; Theoretical Debate & Practical Approaches
- Document number
- 1176
- Date
- 2005
- Title
- Challenging Trafficking in Persons; Theoretical Debate & Practical Approaches
- Author/publisher
- Sector Project against Trafficking in Women (Eds.)
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis, Training Material/Resources,
- Keywords
- Child Trafficking, Risk Groups, Definition of (trafficking), Root Causes, Irregular Migration, Awareness Raising, Information Campaigns, Prevention, Prosecution, Law Enforcement, Criminal justice, Push factors, International Human Rights Law, Pull factors, Organized crime,
- Summary
- On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, December 9, at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in Berlin, the sector project against trafficking in women presented its new publication, "Challenging Trafficking in Persons - Theoretical Debate and Practical Approaches". The event included a press conference and a technical segment. In the technical segment that followed, the contents of the publication were discussed in greater detail. Both Karin Kortmann and Dr. Helga Konrad, the former OSCE Special Representative on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, emphasised that trafficking in human beings is not only a serious crime, but first and foremost a heinous violation of human rights. “Challenging Trafficking in Persons” pools the experience of a wide variety of actors and makes it accessible to professionals in the field. Nivedita Prasad explains the difficult situation of human trafficking victims in Germany: under present law, those of them who are not prepared to cooperate with the criminal justice authorities must leave the country immediately. She calls for eliminating the connection between the residence permit and the willingness to testify as a witness, and for allowing trafficking victims to work legally. Gabriele Reiter describes the development of training modules for NATO peacekeepers dealing with human trafficking. An unusual aspect of this process was that the NATO for the first time accepted a multi-disciplinary procedure and, as recommended by the sector project, involved practitioners from the NGO sphere in the development of the training modules. Adolf Kloke-Lesch, head of the BMZ Directorate, who chaired the technical segment, underlined the significance of development-policy for the subject of human trafficking and its close relevance to other challenges that development cooperation must confront. In this context, he mentioned the areas of crisis prevention and conflict transformation, combating corruption and establishing good governance.
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