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Transnational Organized Crime - Impact from Source to Destination. Background Paper

Document number
1465
Date
2008
Title
Transnational Organized Crime - Impact from Source to Destination. Background Paper
Author/publisher
Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations (UN)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
Keywords
UN GIFT, United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, The Vienna Forum to fight Human Trafficking, Organized crime, Prosecution, Law Enforcement, Criminal justice, Judicial cooperation; National anti-trafficking measures; Criminalisation, Punishment, Crime prevention; Unlawful deprivation of liberty,
Summary
A number of transnational organized crime groups are heavily involved in humantrafficking. On the other hand, human trafficking is also carried out by actors who arenot part of transnational organized crime groups or even non-transnational organizedcrime groups. The following entities are involved in trafficking in persons:• International criminal syndicates with diverse activities that traffic drugs, gunsand people, often using the same routes for all three• Family operations with extended family across country borders• Independently owned businesses with contractors / agents who providelabourers• Loosely based acquaintances/organizations moving people on a limited scale• Individuals (from diplomats and foreign business executives to pimps and barowners).Trafficking groups can be categorized as different types of business or as criminalenterprises. Understanding them in this way offers insight into their modus operandiand resultantly, the means by which they can be stopped.
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