Combating Trafficking in Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians
- Document number
- 2024
- Date
- 2009
- Title
- Combating Trafficking in Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians
- Author/publisher
- Inter-Parliamentary Union, UN.GIFT and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
- Keywords
- Palermo protocol; Definition of (trafficking), Root Causes, Risk Groups, Vulnerability, Pull factors, Push factors, Sending/Receiving countries, Prevention, Awareness Raising, Media, Information Campaigns, Empowerment, Advocacy, Civil society, NGO, Human Rights approach, Activism, Education, Training;
- Summary
- Parliaments and parliamentarians have the power to prevent human trafficking by raising awareness and curbing exploitative practices. They can adopt the laws needed to prosecute traffickers and protect the rights of victims; they can also take steps to combat the crime of human trafficking at international level. UNODC and the IPU have teamed up, as part of UN.GIFT, to encourage parliamentarians to take an active part in stopping human trafficking. Combating Trafficking in Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians is intended to help them do this. The Handbook contains a compilation of international laws and good practices developed to combat human trafficking. It offers guidance on how national legislation can be brought in line with international standards by, for example, defining trafficking in persons and criminalizing all its forms. It outlines measures to prevent commission of the crime of trafficking in persons, to prosecute offenders and to protect victims. It also contains advice on how to report on this crime and how to enlist civil society in the cause.
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