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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 41
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- In addition, it is reported that initiatives to intercept potential victims of trafficking at borders are often misguided and abusive, amounting to a violation of their freedom of movement and stigmatization of the intercepted persons in some cases. For example, girls who were intercepted at the border between Nepal and India were stigmatized upon their return to their communities because the organizations carrying out the interception were known to be involved in anti prostitution work and the girls were thus suspected of having been involved in prostitution. By the same token, some communities have established a community-level vigilance or surveillance committee to prevent trafficking in persons, particularly children. However, evidence suggests that the committees often failed to distinguish between trafficked children and other children leaving their homes to earn money elsewhere, with the result that even adolescents were stopped from migrating from extremely poor villages to seek work in other towns. Destination countries also exercise restrictive immigration control purportedly to prevent potential cases of trafficking. For example, it has been reported that many Brazilian women have been repeatedly denied entry to European Union member States because they looked like prostitutes and thus were suspected to be victims of trafficking.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Integration of a human rights-based approach in measures to discourage the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons, especially women and children, and which leads to human trafficking 2013, para. 60
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- The Third World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, held in Brazil in November 2008, resulted in the Rio Declaration and Action Plan to Prevent and Stop the Sexual Exploitation of Child and Adolescents, setting the agenda for international efforts in that regard.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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A human rights-based approach to the administration of criminal justice in cases of trafficking in persons 2012, para. 70
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- Extradition is another important legal mechanism for ensuring the effective prosecution of suspects, precluding the ability of traffickers to flee to a "safe haven" State. The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime requires States parties to treat offences established in accordance with the Protocol as extraditable offences under domestic law, and to ensure that such offences are included as extraditable offences in current and future extradition treaties. A number of regional instruments, such as the Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors, in its article 10, specifically identify trafficking as an extraditable offence. A number of States have explicitly provided that trafficking is an extraditable offence.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 48
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- Third, the powerful role of the media should be fully acknowledged and exploited in awareness-raising campaigns. The media has tended to sensationalize stories of trafficked persons and highlight their "victimhood" rather than educating the public about the underlying social and economic factors that led to the violation of their human rights. Given its influential role and ability to reach wider audiences, however, the innovative use of media should be built into awareness-raising activities. The ILO project to combat trafficking in children and women in the greater Mekong subregion is a good example of the effective use of a radio programme and television drama in Cambodia to provide adolescents with practical information about safe migration and warnings about trafficking. Given the large number of existing information campaigns, it is also useful to deploy innovative methods to disseminate anti-trafficking messages. The MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) campaign, for example, used the power and influence of music, film and celebrity to attract the interest of youths in trafficking issues. In addition to producing a number of documentaries, animated films and music videos, it held live concerts across Asia and Europe featuring local and international artists. It maintains profiles on social networking and video-sharing sites such as MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. The Blue Heart campaign, an awareness-raising initiative launched by UNODC in 2009, also makes use of social networking sites to reach out widely. While the impact and effectiveness of such campaigns needs to be analysed and assessed more closely, the innovative use of media and information technology to reach out to youth appears to have a positive impact.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 31
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- Demand for services is sometimes interpreted to refer primarily to the market for commercial sex, where trafficked women and girls represent a high proportion of those involved in providing commercial sex and demand comes chiefly from adult men and older adolescent boys. However, boys and some adult men are also trafficked for this purpose. Estimates provided by international organizations about the proportion of people who are trafficked to be exploited in prostitution versus those trafficked for other purposes vary, with ILO estimating in 2005 that the largest proportion had been trafficked for purposes other than the exploitation of the prostitution of others and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimating in its own global report in 2009 that the majority had been trafficked for sexual purposes.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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