Handbook for Diplomatic and Consular Personnel on How to Assist and Protect Victims of Human Trafficking
- Document number
- 2715
- Date
- 2011
- Title
- Handbook for Diplomatic and Consular Personnel on How to Assist and Protect Victims of Human Trafficking
- Author/publisher
- Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings (TF-THB), Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations,
- Keywords
- Prevention, Awareness Raising, Media, Information Campaigns, Empowerment, Advocacy, Civil society, NGO, Human Rights approach, Activism, Education, Training;
- Summary
- The handbook draws upon the material delivered by the TF-THB, the IOM Mission to Moldova and other international, national and non-governmental actors during the course of the training seminars. It provides the reader with an overview of the nature of human trafficking and its legal frameworks. It furthermore includes advice on how to identify and assist victims of human trafficking and considerations when conducting interviews with potential victims. Advice is also given on how to develop strategies in a consular section to work against and prevent human trafficking. Contact points for further assistance are included for each of the CBSS Member States, and for Belgium and Spain where two seminars were held.
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