Developments in trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation and forced labour
- Document number
- 3017
- Date
- 2013
- Title
- Developments in trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation and forced labour
- Author/publisher
- La Strada Czech Republic and the Institute of International Relations
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- EU law, Guidelines/Recommendations, International Law, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- human trafficking, human rights, exploitation, forced labour
- Summary
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This publication of La Strada Czech Republic and the Institute of International Relations focuses on the topic of human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation and forced labour.
The publication is built on the multidisciplinary methodological approach that allows the realisation of its major goals. First of all, it offers in the first chapter a comprehensive presentation of the development of the concept of trafficking in human beings. Within this context, it points out to the sizeable diversity of the different forms and types of trafficking in human beings that concerns various legal or illicit sectors, while it pays attention to the latest trends, and experiences. Within the scopes of the discussions about the definition and concept that are going on among experts, policy makers, and practitioners, it represents many dilemmas, whose at least partial solution is the requirement of effective international collaboration, in the area of the fight against this phenomenon. Aside from the illustration of an emerging discourse connected to the issues of trafficking in human beings, the chapter clearly points out many areas that give the space to conceptual and practical inputs from all relevant participants, mainly in the area of human rights within the scope of this phenomenon.
While the first chapter offers the necessary context of current discussions about the concept in the area of trafficking in human beings, the second chapter includes unique comparative analysis of legal regulation and case law in the area of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation. For this analysis data and case law were collected from nine European countries (incl. Czech Republic), which represents interesting and sufficiently variable sample. Before the analysis of received case law itself, the chapter is focused on the comparison of individual national legal regulation based on key terms connected to the issue of labour exploitation. The result of the research is not only the identification of legal differences in theory or application, but also the formulation of specific legal and executive actions, which should make the running of Czech legal and law-enforcement systems more efficient in this area.