Misuse of the Internet for the Recruitment of Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings, Seminar Proceedings
- Document number
- 1358
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Misuse of the Internet for the Recruitment of Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings, Seminar Proceedings
- Author/publisher
- Gender Equality and Anti-Trafficking Division, Council of Europe
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
- Keywords
- Clients, Recruitment, Sexual exploitation, Internet, Child exploitation, Prevention, Law enforcement, Labour exploitation,
- Summary
- The seminar on the Misuse of the Internet for the Recruitment of Victims of Trafficking in Human beings gathered participants from Member States which had ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings [CETS No. 197] as well as experts from Eurojust, Europol, ILO, national policies forces and non–governmental organisations. Experts presented legal, administrative and technical measures to fight against the recruitment of victims of trafficking in human beings through the internet and representatives from non-governmental organisations explained how they contribute to preventing this misuse.The rapid development in the use of information technologies, in particular the internet, has given a new dimension to trafficking in human beings. Traffickers now have, literally attheir fingertips, an effective, unrestricted and often anonymous means for recruiting their victims. Online employment agencies, in particular model or artist agencies and marriage bureaux can all be ploys to lure potential victims. Internet chat websites are often used to befriend potential victims. The risks for young people to fall into the traffickers' net have substantially increased. This aim of this seminar was to learn more about the different methods used by traffickers to recruit their victims via the internet in order to propose appropriate legal, administrative and technical measures and more effective and better targeted awareness-raising.The proceedings of the seminar are prepared on the basis of written contributions provided in English or in French. In addition to these proceedings, discussions emanating from the seminar will be reflected in a Council of Europe report on the Misuse of the internet for the recruitment of victims of trafficking in human beings to be published in autumn 2007.
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