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Project Report "Towards Global EU Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings"

Document number
2695
Date
2011
Title
Project Report "Towards Global EU Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings"
Author/publisher
IOM Vienna
Availability
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Document type(s)
Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
EU Action against trafficking; action oriented paper; prevention; protection; prosecution; partnerships
Summary

This report is a result of the project “Towards Global EU-Action against Trafficking in Human Beings” implemented by the Ministry of Justice of Sweden in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration. The project was part of the priorities of the Swedish Presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2009.

The overall objective of the project was to contribute to improving the cooperation and coordination of EU-action against trafficking in persons vis-à-vis third countries by providing input to the elaboration of an Action Oriented Paper on the external dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs policies on trafficking in persons, which was adopted by the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 30 November/1 December 2009 under the Swedish EU Presidency.

Another important aspect of the project was to foster consensus amongst policymakers and Member States on how to address human trafficking more strategically in the external dimension of Justice and Home Affairs policy regarding prevention, protection, prosecution, and, in particular, partnerships with third countries. Although in recent years a number of EU guiding priorities, such as the prevention of human trafficking, the protection of victims and the prosecution of criminals, have emerged, less effort was made in the field of partnership with third countries.The involvement of countries of origin in these efforts was one of the priorities of this project.

The report also contains a set of recommendations and follow-up actions discussed during the meetings of the project among stakeholders. 

The report is also available to download at IOM Vienna website: http://www.iomvienna.at/ 

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