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Publications on Smuggling & Trafficking

Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2012 (UNODC)

Cover Page of the UNODC Global report 2012
Pub date: 
Dec 2012
The Global Report 2012 provides an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at global, regional and national levels. The report also includes a chapter on the worldwide response to trafficking in persons and country profiles for each of the 132 countries covered by this edition.
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Main theme:
Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type:
Report
Keywords:
definition, detection, prosecution, trafficking case

Annual report Trafficking of human beings 2011 (Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism)

image of annual Trafficking report
Pub date: 
Oct 2012
One week before the European Anti Trafficking Day (18 October), the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism presented its fifteenth annual report on trafficking in, and smuggling of human beings.
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Main theme:
Smuggling & Trafficking

The EU Strategy towards the Eradication of Trafficking in Human Beings 2012-2016

Cover page of the EU Strategy towards eradication of trafficking
Pub date: 
Jun 2012
The Strategy, adopted on 19 June 2012, contains a set of concrete and practical measures that will support and complement the Directive 2011/36/EC whose deadline for transposition is 6 April 2013.
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Main theme:
Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords:
identification, joint investigation, prosecution, protection, strategy

Cross-border Trafficking In Human Beings: Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Reducing Sexual Exploitation

Cover of Campbell Collaboration's publication
Pub date: 
Dec 2011
Peter H. van der Laan, Monika Smit, Inge Busschers and Pauline Aarten have published their study for the Campbell Collaboration. It focuses on cross-border trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and prostitution.
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Main theme:
Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication type:
Study
Keywords:
cross-border crime, victims of human trafficking

Combatting Social Fraud is Preventing Trafficking in Human Beings

Cover annual report 2010 Trafficking (CEOOR)
Pub date: 
Oct 2011
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism has published its 2010 annual report on trafficking/smuggling of human beings
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Main theme:
Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
human smuggling, trafficking, victims of human trafficking

Annual Report 2010, Immigration Office

Cover Annual Report 2010, Immigration Office
Pub date: 
Jun 2011
This is the Annual Report 2010 of the Belgian Immigration Office (Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken/Office des Etrangers)
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Main theme:
Economic migration, Family reunification, Regularization, Asylum, Citizenship & Nationality, Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission, Smuggling & Trafficking, Migration

The role of organized crime in the smuggling of migrants of West Africa to the European Union

UN logo
Pub date: 
May 2011
The new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) investigates the involvement of organized criminal groups in the smuggling of migrants from West Africa towards the European Union (EU).
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Main theme:
Irregular Migration, Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
criminal groups, smuggling of migrants

Frontex Annual Risk Analysis 2011

Cover page report
Pub date: 
May 2011
The Annual Risk Analysis Report of EU Agency FRONTEX, in charge for the coordination of the operational cooperation between Member States in the field of border security
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Main theme:
Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Smuggling & Trafficking, Migration
Keywords:
border control, risk analysis

Monitoring Anti-Trafficking Re/Integration Programmes. A Manual

KBS-Manual: Monitoring anti-trafficking re/integration programmes
Pub date: 
May 2011
The King Baudouin Foundation publishes a practical tool for practitioners in the re/integration of victims of human trafficking
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Main theme:
Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication type:
Study
Keywords:
anti-trafficking, reintegration program, victims of human trafficking

Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and Protecting its Victims (Directive 2011/36/EU)

First page of directive 2011/36/UE
Pub date: 
Apr 2011
On 5 April 2011, the European Union adopted Directive 2011/36/EU which sets out minimum standards to be applied throughout the European Union in preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting victims.
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Main theme:
Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords:
definition, directive 2011/36/EU, penalties, prevention, prosecution, protection