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

• Module 2: Protection of the Rights of Smuggled Migrants

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Assistance and protection in the Protocol
• International human rights and refugee law
• Vulnerable groups
• Positive and negative obligations of the State
• Identification of smuggled migrants and first responses
• Participation of smuggled migrants in legal proceedings
• The role of non-governmental organizations
• Smuggled migrants & other categories of migrants
• Short-, mid- and long-term measures

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Other resources

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in January 2019.

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Advanced reading

 

The following readings are recommended for students interested in exploring the topics of this Module in more detail, and for lecturers teaching the Module:

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2011), International Framework for Action to Implement the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol , pp. 25-42
• Global Alliance against Traffic in Women (2011), Human Rights in Migrant Smuggling
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2014), The Social, Economic and Cultural Rights of Migrants in an Irregular Situation
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2017), Report to the Human Rights Council on principles and the practical guidance on protection of the human rights of migrants in vulnerable situations within large and/or mixed movements, on the basis of existing legal norms
• Allain, Jean (2002). ' The Jus Cogens Nature of Non-Refoulement.' 13(4) International Journal of Refugee Law 533
• WOLA (Advocacy for Human Rights in the Americas) (2017), Crimes against Migrants and Access to Justice in Mexico

 

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