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Human Rights and Trafficking in Women and Young People in Europe. Overview on Austria, Italy, Poland

Document number
1653
Date
2007
Title
Human Rights and Trafficking in Women and Young People in Europe. Overview on Austria, Italy, Poland
Author/publisher
Dina Nachbaur (Austrian Section), Paola Degani (Italian Section), Joanna Garnier, Anja Dospial (Polish Section)
Availability
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Document type(s)
LSI publication, Training Material/Resources,
Keywords
Daphne Programme II, Project Human Rights and Trafficking in Women and Young People. An educational toolkit for teachers and students, University of Padua, Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples, La Strada Foundation against Trafficking in Persons and Slavery, Poland, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Association Human Rights - Human Development Project
Summary
Overview on Austria: This summary is basedon the country report for Austria, which was compiled in conjunction withproject “Human Rights and Trafficking in Women and Young People in Europe.An Educational Toolkit for Teachers and Students.” For this report, twelveinterviews were conducted with stakeholders representing the police, socialservices, administration and science. Moreover, existing literature pertaining tothe subject matter was integrated into the report. The focus is on the traffickingin women and young people for the purpose of sexual exploitation. However,humans are also trafficked in Austria for other purposes, for instance to exploitthem in jobs such as domestic servants, geriatric care, agricultural day jobs oras panhandlers working the streets.Overview on Italy: In the last decade, Italy has been the focus of an analysis on trafficking in humanbeings for the purpose of sexual exploitation. A number of different disciplineshave studied this issue, that represents a fundamental field of intervention ofsocial workers, the police, and the judiciary committed to help victims and torepress such criminal conduct.Despite the greater research and the more numerous moments of publicconfrontation on the theme, the phenomenon, in Italy, remains one that isdifficult to monitor since its evolution is constant, and any in-depth knowledge ofits actual dimension and operability are still remote. Overview on Poland: This report (summary of report) , which is a part of the edition “Trafficking inwomen and youths in Europe - educational handbook”, describes trafficking inpeople and ancillary phenomena in our country, Poland.The Report is written from a practical point of view, by the workers of the LaStrada Foundation against Trafficking in People and Slavery, which has beencounteracting trafficking in people for over ten years and aiding victims of thiscrime in Poland. To prepare it, we also made use of interviews with expertsworking against trafficking in people. This includes representatives of the police,border guards, crown attorneys and non-government organisations.We are very grateful to them for their cooperation and donated time.
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