• E4J University Module Series: Trafficking in Persons & Smuggling of Migrants

• Module 7: Prevention of Trafficking in Persons

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Root causes
  • Effective prevention strategies
  • • Supply side strategies: concerns and shortcomings
    • Demand side strategies: discouraging or prosecuting demand
    • Role of the media
    • Safe migration channels
    • Crime prevention strategies
  • Monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the effectiveness of prevention strategies

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Other resources

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in March 2019 

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

Materials with this icon can be found in the E4J Library of Resources.

• Allain, Jean (2014). No Effective Trafficking Definition Exists: Domestic Implementation of the Palermo Protocol. Albany Government Law Review, vol. 7, pp.111-142.
• Asian Inspection White Paper (2015). Will Consumer Awareness Put an End to Modern Slavery?
• Balch, Alex (2012 ). Regulation and Enforcement to Tackle Forced Labour in the UK: A Systematic Response? Liverpool: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
• Bhattacharjee, R. B. (2015). Being Human: Social change can end human trafficking. The Edge Markets, 22 August.
• Council of Europe (2005) . Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.
• Gallagher, Anne T. (2010). The International Law of Human Trafficking . Cambridge University Press. (especially chapter 8).
• Goodman, Mickey (2011). More Businesses, Consumers Work to Stem Human Trafficking. Huffington Post, 25 May
• Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons (2014). Preventing Trafficking in Persons by Addressing Demand.  Vienna: UNODC
• Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons (2016). Issue Paper No. 4: Pivoting toward the Evidence: Building effective counter-trafficking responses using accumulated knowledge and a shared approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning . Vienna: UNODC.
• Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons (2017). Harnessing accumulated knowledge to respond to trafficking in persons: A toolkit for guidance in designing and evaluating counter-trafficking programmes . Vienna: UNODC.
• Dottridge, Mike (2007). A Handbook on planning projects to prevent child trafficking . Lausanne: International Federation Terre des Hommes
• IOM (2015). Addressing Human Trafficking and Exploitation in Times of Crisis . Geneva: IOM.
• Jones, Samuel V. (2012). Human Trafficking Victim Identification: Should Consent Matter?, Indiana Law Review, vol. 45, pp. 483-511
• Mattar, Mohamed Y. (2013). Article 43 of the Arab Charter on Human Rights: Reconciling National, Regional and International Standards. Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 26, pp. 91-147.
• Mattar, Mohamed Y. (2006). Incorporating the Five Basic Elements of a Model Anti- Trafficking in Persons Legislation in Domestic Laws: From the United Nations Protocol to the European Convention. Tulane
• Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 14, pp. 357-422. 
• Plant, Roger (2009). Trafficking for Labour Exploitation: challenges for criminal Law Enforcement. Cambridge: ILO
• Pratt, Laura (2012). Hidden in Plain Sight: A General Overview of the Human Trafficking Issue, Texas Bar Journal, vol. 75, pp. 762
• Smit, Vanessa (2004). Safe Migration: a Role in Curtailing Human Trafficking? A Theoretical Discussion and a Case Study of Human Trafficking from Nepal to India. Amsterdam: Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam
• The Protection Project (2006). Comprehensive Legal Approaches to Combating Trafficking in Persons: An International and Comparative Perspective . Washington DC: John Hopkins University.
• The Protection Project (2013). Understanding Trafficking in Persons in the MENA Region . Washington DC: John Hopkins University.
• United Nations (2000). Convention on Transnational Organized crime and its Supplementing Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air.
• UNODC (2008). Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons . Vienna: UNODC
• UNODC (2009). Model Law against Trafficking in Persons . Vienna: UNODC
• UNODC (2011). The Role of Corruption in Trafficking in Persons . Vienna: UNODC
• UNODC (2016). Global Report on Trafficking in Persons . Vienna: UNODC
• UNODC (2018). Global Report on Trafficking in Persons . Vienna: UNODC
• UNODC (2018). Countering Trafficking in Persons in Conflict Situations . Vienna: UNODC  

 

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