Ensuring Human Rights Protection in Countries of Destination: Breaking the Cycle of Trafficking
- Document number
- 1632
- Date
- 2004
- Title
- Ensuring Human Rights Protection in Countries of Destination: Breaking the Cycle of Trafficking
- Author/publisher
- Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Conference Report, Helsinki, 23-24 September 2004, Victims (of trafficking), Trafficked persons, Criminal proceedings; Legal assistance, Civil Law Suit, Human trafficking cases, Compensation, National Referral Mechanisms; Victim support services; Restitution; Remuneration; Individual complaint mechanisms; Trafficking process, Recruitment, Transportation, Transit, Transfer, Consent, Palermo protocol; Definition of (trafficking), Root Causes, Risk Groups, Vulnerability, Pull factors, Push factors, Sending/Receiving countries,
- Summary
- Although trafficking in human beings is a problem for both countries of origin and destination and,although international treaties are addressed to all countries, anti-trafficking efforts have mainly beendirected at countries of origin. At the same time, anti-trafficking responses in countries of destinationhave been rather limited. As a result, the great majority of trafficked persons are not being identified;instead, they are treated as illegal migrants, deported to their home countries, and exposed to the riskof being re-trafficked.This conference was a follow-up to the Berlin conference “Europe against Trafficking in Persons”,which was organized by the ODIHR and the German Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 2001. Its mainpurpose was to review and discuss the implementation of the recommendations that resulted from theBerlin conference.The conference took place in Helsinki on 23-24 September 2004 and focused on the following issues:• Protecting the human rights of trafficked persons in countries of destination, with particularattention paid to identification; access to medical, psychological, and legal assistance; reflectiondelays; and residence permits;• National and regional initiatives to improve victim protection in countries of destination;• Implementation of National Referral Mechanisms, i.e. models for co-operation between lawenforcement and civil society; and• Challenges and opportunities regarding European and global instruments to strengthen the rightsof trafficked persons.
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