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Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling: New Perspectives on an Old Problem

Document number
1744
Date
2007
Title
Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling: New Perspectives on an Old Problem
Author/publisher
Harvard University at all.
Availability
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Document type(s)
Guidelines/Recommendations, Media/News,
Keywords
Policy Brief Nr 7, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,
Summary
To cope with the pernicious problem of human trafficking and smuggling, Washington and its global allies need fundamentally to rethink their assumptions about the nature and size and the scope of the problem, and also how to combat it. The anti-trafficking effort should focus on local and global responses rather than on national ones. We should spend less time trying to isolate the size of the human trafficking problem and more time rigorously evaluating existing initiatives. Imperative is better information sharing among countries, agencies, and among those battling the trade in illicit goods, not just trade in humans.
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