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International & Global: Human Trafficking & Sexual Exploitation

Resources included here focus on the worldwide illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor. These materials demonstrate intersections with women’s lives, the feminist movement, human rights, and violence against women, and suggest ways to address trafficking more specifically in our work to end domestic and sexual violence.

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2011
This document identifies how the crimes of rape and sexual violence must, as a requirement of its own statute and a matter of international human rights law, be interpreted and applied with equality between men and women by the International Criminal Court (the Court).
Authors: Amnesty International
2010
This paper describes how the Internet has become a resource for sex traffickers to sell women and children for sexual exploitation while concealing their own identities and recommends the implementation of international human rights law explicitly criminalizing Internet-facilitated sex trafficking.
Authors: Erin I. Kunze
June 2009
The report is a valuable tool to raise global awareness and take effective actions against human trafficking. This year's report covers 170 countries.
Authors: U.S. Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
June 2009
This is the ninth annual TIP Report; it seeks to increase global awareness of the human trafficking phenomenon by shedding new light on various facets of the problem and highlighting shared and individual of the international community.
Authors: U.S. Department of State
2009
This toolkit for safeguarding trafficked children provides guidance to professionals and volunteers from all agencies in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children who are harmed through being trafficked and exploited.
Authors: London Safeguarding Children Board
2009
This research project gathered information from international and UK literature on trafficking, focus groups and interviews with 72 practitioners specialized in trafficked children and young people, and 37 cases of child trafficking/sexual exploitation.
Authors: Silvie Bovarnik, Jenny J Pearce, and Patricia Hynes
2009
This framework is a technical assistant tools designed to support UN member states to effectively implement the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, which is a protocol that obligates its ratifying states to prevent and combat trafficking in persons.
Authors: The United Nations
2008
This report focuses on ways to improve the international community's response to the sexual exploitation and abuse of children by aid workers, peacekeepers and others acting on their behalf in emergencies.
Authors: SAVE the Children UK
2008
This brochure explains the ILO's role in fighting commercial sexual exploitation of all children under 18 years of age, a worst form of child labour specifically targeted for immediate elimination under ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999.
Authors: International Labour Office - International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour
2008
Based on data gathered from 155 countries, this report offers the first global assessment of the scope of human trafficking.
Authors: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime