APA-Obs

Maritime people smuggling and its intersection with human trafficking in South and South East Asia

Maritime people smuggling and its intersection with human trafficking in South and South East Asia

...tries in the region, with Sri Lanka and Indonesia being well-established departure countries toward Oceania. The paper considers key trends, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and intersections with human trafficking. It is important to note that maritime migration does not occur in isolation but typically forms part of what is usually a longer migration journey that involves land border crossings as well as air ...

Posted on 09 Mar 2023

Author(s): Bodean Hedwards, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Perkha Traxl

Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Out of sight, out of mind: Latin America’s struggle to tackle human trafficking

...human trafficking is the most pervasive illicit market in the world. In Latin America, the situation is particularly acute. Countries need to work together to respond to this growing threat. The 2021 Global Organized...

Posted on 28 Jul 2022

Author(s): Josefina Salomón

CovidCrimeWatch, UN-TOC Watch

COVID-19 an accelerator of human trafficking – UN

...ts of the pandemic took centre stage, with forced labour and online trafficking the focus. At the recent General Assembly meeting, governments focused on the COVID-19 pandemic as an accelerator for human trafficking, and particularly two issues: forced labour and the growth of online human trafficking. A pandemic of vulnerability The ongoing pandemic exacerbated existing risks and made larger groups of peo...

Posted on 09 Dec 2021

Author(s): Summer Walker

#GIDisappearances, Resilience Fund

False hopes: Human trafficking in Kenya

...Kenya is a high-risk country for human trafficking, being a destination, source and transit country for victims. People are trafficked while taking long and dangerous journeys, often across continents, in search of work elsewhere. Migrants believe th...

Posted on 23 Sep 2021

JIED, RESPECT

Call for Papers: Special Section: The human trafficking – organized crime nexus: Overlaps, vulnerabilities, and responses

...This special section aims to explore and advance the discourse on the overlaps between human trafficking and other organized crime markets, including drug trafficking, extortion, illicit trade, counterfeiting, and environmental crime. The overlaps between human trafficking and other forms of organized ...

Posted on 22 Jun 2021

Author(s): Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Thi Hoang, Livia Wagner

RESPECT

Combating human trafficking: Trends and gaps in the corporate partnership landscape

...WEBINAR: Partnering on anti-trafficking: The key to successful corporate collaboration The past decade has seen a growing number of regulatory frameworks directed at tackling human trafficking. Under these frameworks, businesses are required to disclose their efforts to address human trafficking in their operations and supply chains and to conduct human rights due diligence more thoroughly...

Posted on 25 Jan 2021

Author(s): Thi Hoang

CovidCrimeWatch, RESPECT

Aggravating circumstances: How coronavirus impacts human trafficking

Aggravating circumstances:

...conomic recession. Poverty, lack of social or economic opportunity and limited labour protections are the main root causes and drivers that render people vulnerable or cause them to fall victim to human trafficking. This unprecedented crisis will likely exacerbate all of those factors and result in developments (see Figure 1) that must be noted by anti-human-trafficking communities and stakeholders. Figure 1...

Posted on 02 Jun 2020

Author(s): Livia Wagner, Thi Hoang

RESPECT

Accelerating the use of tech to combat human trafficking

... There is a growing need for the development and support of technologies working to protect potential victims of human trafficking. There are few facets of modern life that are untouched by technology. Innovations in the industry have changed the way we communicate, the way we work, the way we conduct commerce, and the way we...

Posted on 30 Apr 2019

Author(s): Hannah Darnton, Thi Hoang

UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch, WEA-Obs

CAR: Where human trafficking is the norm

...18 iteration of the UNODC’s Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. Acts of exploitation and abuse that have been reportedly carried out by UN peacekeepers in conflict zones, including areas where human trafficking is an existing humanitarian problem, are not addressed in the UNODC report. This article looks at the Central African Republic, one setting where such transgressions by members of the UN have been al...

Posted on 04 Apr 2019

Author(s): Lea Gianasso

Global Initiative

Human Trafficking and People Smuggling in the Mediterranean Area

Posted on 28 Sep 2018

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano