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Recommendations to the Government of the Czech Republic on the Issue of Trafficking in Human Beings. Perspective of a Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organization La Strada Czech Republic

Document number
1212
Date
2005
Title
Recommendations to the Government of the Czech Republic on the Issue of Trafficking in Human Beings. Perspective of a Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organization La Strada Czech Republic
Author/publisher
La Strada Ceská Republika
Availability
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Document type(s)
LSI publication, Guidelines/Recommendations,
Keywords
Prevention, Awareness Raising, Media, Information Campaigns, Empowerment, Advocacy, Civil society, NGO, Human Rights approach, Activism, Education, Training;
Summary
These recommendations were drafted with the objective of offering inspiration and assistance in designing policies aimed at the prevention of trafficking in persons and to help focus attention to protection and implementation of trafficked persons’ human rights. The recommendations reflect almost ten years experience of La Strada Czech Republic with work in the area of combating human trafficking, offering this experience for discussion to the general and professional public. The recommendations are divided into six parts. The first part formulates general principles representing the philosophical basis for both the everyday work of the organisation and the concept of the recommendations. The second part focuses on legislation, offering concrete suggestions that, if implemented, would lead to better compliance of the Czech Republic with relevant international documents, as well as more efficient implementation of rights of trafficked persons and prosecution of traffickers. The third part concentrates on prevention and education, presenting possibilities for effective prevention and reduction of the risk of human trafficking among different target groups, and pays attention to the necessity of targeted education of professionals who come into contact with at-risk-groups. The fourth part concerns social assistance, containing recommendations aimed at the prevention of secondary victimisation of trafficked persons, and improvement of the system of social assistance available to trafficked persons supporting their reintegration into society. The fifth part focuses on the cooperation of actors which either come in contact with trafficked persons or may influence their position or implementation of their rights. The last part contains recommendations inspired by best practices, and offers alternatives and suggestions, especially for the work of governmental institutions. These recommendations include measures that may be implemented in the near future, as well as those whose implementation may be a long term assignment. However, in no case should they be regarded as a handbook whose aspiration is to solve the problem of human trafficking through exhaustive enumeration of measures to be carried out. Quite the contrary, it is very likely that only after most of the suggested measures are implemented it will be possible to begin to deal with the issue of human trafficking responsibly and thoroughly.
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