News and Events
18 December 2008
UNODC launches Online Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons
UNODC's Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons aims to offer guidance, recommended resources, and promising practices to policymakers, law enforcers, judges, prosecutors, victim service providers and members of civil society who are working in interrelated spheres towards preventing trafficing, protecting and assisting victims and promoting international cooperation. All 123 Tools are now downloadable as individual files online.
Visit the Online Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons
or download a full version of the Toolkit at our Tools and Publications page.
30 November 2008 - 3 December 2008
Expert Group Meeting to Elaborate Basic Training Modules on Preventing and Combating the Smuggling of Migrants
Between 30 November and 2 December 2008, expert law enforcers and prosecutors from around the world gathered in Saly, Senegal, to share their experience in investigating and prosecuting migrant smuggling with a view to providing practical input to the elaboration of basic training modules on preventing and combating the Smuggling of Migrants.
For more about the Expert Group Meeting, click here.
15 November 2008
Colloquium on Justice Delivery in Human Trafficking Crimes, India
On the 15 November 2008, UNODC's Regional Office for South Asia teamed with the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) of India to organize a one day Colloquium on Justice Delivery in Human Trafficking Crimes for Judicial Officers, Prosecutors and Police Officers in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The colloquium involved all three wings of the criminal justice system, from all over India. Participants also included representatives from the media, UN agencise, civil society partners and students as observers. More than 250 senior officials attended this event.
For more about the Colloquium, click
here or visit the
website of UNODC's Regional Office for South Asia.
20 October 2008
UNODC launches report on trafficking in Lebanon
According to a newly released national report, only 60 cases involving victims of human trafficking are officially identified every year in Lebanon. For more information about this report, click here or download the report.
For more publications, visit our publications page.
15 October 2008
UNODC hosts event to discuss challenges in the delivery of technical assistance
During the
Conference of Parties, UNODC's anti-human trafficking and migrant smuggling unit hosted an event to explore challenges in implementating the Trafficking in Persons Protocol, specifically, the delivery of technical assistance. Presentations were made by representates from UNODC's offices in Mexico and Central America, Eastern Africa and India.
9 October 2008
UNODC releases new Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons
"The fact that trafficking in persons occurs today is a horrifying reality. The fact that there is more we could be doing collectively to combat it should be a global call to arms." (UNODC Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons).
Like the Trafficking in Persons Protocol, the overarching goals of the Toolkit are to prevent and combat trafficking, protect and assist its victims, and promote international cooperation. It is hoped that in providing guidance, showing promising practices and recommending resources, the
Toolkit may inspire and assist policymakers, law enforcers, judges, prosecutors, victim service providers and members of civil society who are working in interconnected spheres towards these same objectives.
The Toolkit dedicates chapters to the thematic areas of:
1. International Legal Framework
2. Problem Assessment and Strategy Development
3. Legislative Framework
4. International Criminal Justice Cooperation
5. Law Enforcement and Prosecution
6. Victim Identification
7. Immigration Status of Victims and their Return and Repatriation
8. Victim Protection and Assistance
9. Prevention of Trafficking in Persons
10. Monitoring and Evaluation
The 123 tools contained in the Toolkit offer guidance in the form of legislative explanation, principles, guidelines, recommendations, directives, checklists, forms, and expert discussion of issues. Recommended resources include training materials, websites, legislative guides, online conventions, analysis and published reports produced by anti-trafficking IGO, NGO and government partners around the world. Non-exhaustive Promising Practices of anti-trafficking interventions from around the world are offered as both a celebration of efforts undertaken in differing contexts with varying resource capacities, and as an inspiration for further innovative initiatives.
For more publications, visit our publications page.