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

• Module 3: The Criminal Justice Response to Migrant Smuggling

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Criminal justice response: scope
  • Investigative and prosecutorial multidisciplinary approaches
  • • Different relevant actors in countering smuggling of migrants and their respective roles
    • Testimonial evidence
    • Financial investigations
    • Media
    • Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
    • 'Outside the box' methodologies
  • Intra- and inter-agency coordination
  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Sentencing
  • International cooperation
  • Exchange of information
  • Training

• 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  

 

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

 

NGOs have an important role in preventing and countering migrant smuggling, not only in respect of helping migrants, but also due to their capacity to raise the public's, and would-be migrants', awareness of the threats posed by migrant smuggling. Beyond this, NGOs also play a key role in raising awareness and building the capacity of States and other anti-migrant smuggling actors ( UNODC, 2009). Lecturers could encourage a debate among students on the possible role of NGOs in assisting authorities in investigating and prosecuting smuggling of migrants (see Exercise 2).

 

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