A Summary of Challenges Facing Legal Responses to Human Trafficking for Labour Exploitation in the OSCE Region
- Document number
- 1497
- Date
- 2006
- Title
- A Summary of Challenges Facing Legal Responses to Human Trafficking for Labour Exploitation in the OSCE Region
- Author/publisher
- Katy Thompson, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Occasional Paper Series Number 1,
- Summary
- Background Paper for the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons High-Level Conference: "Human Trafficking for Labour Exploitation/Forced and Bonded Labour: Prosecution of Offenders, Justice for Victims". This paper provides a short explanation of the issue followed by an examination of a small sample of the legal challengesfaced by OSCE participating States in implementing their political commitments and legal obligations to end traffickingfor labour exploitation. It highlights some of the technical or legal steps which need to be taken to ensure effectiveprosecution of perpetrators but also makes clear that, without effective and comprehensive protection of potential andactual victims, prosecution efforts will have limited impact. These protection measures are not limited to guaranteeingthe physical and psychological safety of identified victims but extend also to protection of the community in the widersense i.e. to ensuring that the labour market and work place are adequately and effectively regulated and that safe andlegal migration opportunities are available.
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