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Technical Assistance:
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
SMUGGLING OF MIGRANTS
Constraints in responding to human trafficking & migrant
smuggling:
• Gaps in national legal frameworks
• Limited government capacity and lack of institutions and
planning
• Limited law enforcement and criminal justice capacity
and expertise
• Lack of data
• Limited protection for victims and of rights of smuggled
migrants
Applying Mandate of TOC & Protocols…
Strategic areas of technical assistance:
1. Prevention and Awareness-raising
2. Data Collection & Research
3. Legislative Assistance
4. Strategic Planning & Policy Development
5. Criminal Justice System responses
6. Protection of Victims & Rights of Smuggled Migrants
7. International Cooperation
Current Technical Assistance projects
• Trafficking in persons, 23 projects
– global, regional and national;
– Regional & national projects: Africa & Middle East; Central & Eastern
Europe; Latin America & Caribbean; South & EastAsia & Pacific; West &
Central Asia.
– Several global projects and activities.
• Smuggling of migrants, 3 projects
– Current projects in Africa;
– Number of forthcoming projects in East Asia;
– Increasing global activities.
• Outreach
– On both topics, currently assisting 80+ countries
1. Prevention and Awareness-raising
• Blue Heart Campaign (new campaign launched in
February 2009);
• Training films, trafficking in persons (TIP) & smuggling
of migrants (SOM);
• Public Service Announcements (part of the
continuous UNODC prevention campaign).
2. Data Collection & Research
• Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (Feb. 2009);
• Linkages between TOC, TIP and SOM;
• Technical papers on trafficking in persons and related
issues (e.g. Islamic law and trafficking, corruption and
trafficking, money laundering/financial crime & human
trafficking/migrant smuggling)
• Regional SOM Reports: India to Europe; North Africa;
West Africa
• Bibliography of research on smuggling of migrants
3. Legislative Assistance
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Assistance in legal drafting
Comprehensive Model Law on Trafficking in Persons
Comprehensive Model Law on Smuggling of Migrants
Handbook for Parliamentarians to combat
trafficking in persons (UN.GIFT, UNODC, IPU)
4. Strategic Planning & Policy Development
• Framework for Action (Implementation of Protocols)
• Toolkits to Combat Trafficking in Persons & Smuggling
of Migrants
• Policies and action plans on trafficking in persons
(Black Sea Region, Eastern and Southern Africa )
5. Criminal Justice System responses
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Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons, promising practices
Toolkit to Combat Smuggling of Migrants, promising practices
TIP First Aid Kit, tools for frontline law enforcement
SOM training manuals – basic and in-depth
TIP in-depth training modules
Delivery of specialized training (e.g. training for NATO
officials)
• Assessments (e.g. regional assessment on penal prosecution
capacities to investigate trafficking in persons in Central America
(Feb. 2009))
6. Protection of Victims & Rights of Smuggled
Migrants
• TIP and SOM Model laws
• Victim centered approach (supported within all 23 TIP
technical assistance projects)
• Promotion of Law enforcement – NGO Cooperation
(e.g. regional project on fostering NGO – Law
Enforcement cooperation in preventing and combating
human trafficking in, from and to the Baltic Sea
Region)
7. International Cooperation
• Regional workshops & Handbook on International
Cooperation in TIP cases
– Balkans; East Asia; Central Asia
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UN.GIFT
Alliance against Trafficking in Persons, OSCE
Global Migration Group
MTM and I-map
ICAT
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Anti-Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling
Unit (AHTMSU)
UNODC
Email. [email protected]
Tel. +43 1 26060 5687
http://www.unodc.org/
Model Law against Trafficking in
Persons
• Covers prosecution, protection and prevention.
• Includes commentaries and examples.
• Available on-line at
http://www.unodc.org/documents/legaltools/Model_Law_TiP.pdf (English only).
• Finalized in an EGM: Experts were from Canada, Côte
d’Ivoire, Egypt, France, Georgia, Israel, Lebanon, the
Netherlands, Nigeria, Slovakia, Thailand, Uganda and
the United States of America, as well as representatives
of the International Labour Organization and the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Model Law against Smuggling of
Migrants
• Covers criminalization, cooperation at sea and return.
• First EGM March 2009, Second EGM on 14-16 October.
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/expert-group-meeting-onmodel-law-on-smuggling-of-migrants.html
• Experts are from Albania,Australia, Belgium, Costa Rica, Ecuador,
Egypt, France, India, Jamaica, Nigeria, the Philippines, Serbia,
South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Tunisia, the United Kingdom, the US.,
as well as legal experts from the Commonwealth Secretariat, the
International Labour Organization, the International Organization for
Migration, and the UN High Commissioner for human Rights, the UN
High Commissioner for Refugees.
• Will be translated to other UN languages in 2010.