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UNIFEM’s comments on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and Protecting Victims

Document number
2390
Date
2010
Title
UNIFEM’s comments on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and Protecting Victims
Author/publisher
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Guidelines/Recommendations,
Keywords
Comments, response, trafficking, international law, prevention, protection, prosecution, EU, CEDAW
Summary
The document consists of UNIFEM's response to the "Directive of the European Parliament on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protection of victims. In the response UNIFEM appreciates the approach taken by the European parliament; an approach that focuses on protection, prevention, prosecution and monitoring. UNIFEM suggests that the parliament invokes CEDAW, its relevant General Recommendations and the Committee’s Concluding Observations in the directive, in order to ensure a gender sensitive approach. Further UNIFEM expresses the importance of linking Migration and Trafficking in policy, legal and program initiatives and the need for the Union to develop a Migration policy that is framed by gender equality and women’s empowerment perspectives. The commentary also stresses that non legal preventive measures, such as economic rights and security must me strengthened. Finally, UNIFEM suggests that victims of trafficking that have been forced to break the law will not be prosecuted under any circumstances.
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