Trafficking in Human Beings Amounting to Torture and other Forms of Ill-treatment
- Document number
- 2997
- Date
- 2013
- Title
- Trafficking in Human Beings Amounting to Torture and other Forms of Ill-treatment
- Author/publisher
- OSCE
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- EU law, Guidelines/Recommendations, International Law, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Awareness-raising, Legal framework, Victim assistance, Sex trafficking, Labour trafficking, Organ trafficking, Trafficking and gender, Trafficking in children, Report/handbook/toolkit, OSCE, International Organization, Tools, Business, Civil-Society, Media, Governments, modern-day slavery, Policy
- Summary
- This Fifth Occasional Paper (Paper) addresses and denounces the use of torture and other forms of ill-treatment by traffickers as a means to subjugate, control and punish trafficked people. It analyses under which circumstances trafficking can amount to torture or other forms of ill-treatment and it identifies the connection between both human rights violations from a clinical perspective. Importantly, the Paper provides the conceptual framework to understand what trafficking cases entail in terms of the physical and psychological effects on traf-ficked persons, and the legal and clinical implications that flow from this characterization, including in terms of legal entitlements.