• 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  

 

Key issues

 

The sub-pages to this section provide a descriptive overview of the key issues that lecturers might want to cover with their students when teaching on this topic:

• Assistance and protection in the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants
• Looking beyond 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 (NGOs)
• Protection of smuggled migrants vis-à-vis other categories of migrants
• Short-, mid- and long-term measures: responsibilities, roles and accountability

 

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