Child trafficking: The people involved

Based on a series of studies on child trafficking in Albania, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, this study seeks out the people hidden between the lines -- the victims, traffickers, unscrupulous employers, intermediaries who help them and the people who try to stop trafficking happening and help children who get caught up in it.

Trafficking of children: Problems and Responses

This report presents an overview of the issues involved in child trafficking and some of the programmes and projects set up to confront them.

Full publication available from www.ilo.org

People on the move: Human trafficking and migration in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria

There are very few research publications about trafficking in the Middle East. This report looks at people movements including migration and trafficking in the countries of the Mashreq.

Human trafficking: When the doors are closed

This brief article, on page 4 of the newsletter of Women’s Health West, a not-for-profit organization providing health access and advice to women in Melbourne, Australia, looks at the trafficking of women within the context of sexual and reproductive health.

Manual: Fight trafficking in children

This series of training booklets is based on the 2008 UN.GIFT resource kit (also on this site) and provides exercises and answers for students of child trafficking.

Meeting the challenge: Proven practices for human trafficking prevention in the Greater Mekong Subregion

Large numbers of people are trafficked across the permeable borders separating countries of the Mekong subregion (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and southern China), where there is a longstanding tradition of migration for work.  For eight years, the ILO regional office in Bangkok ran a subregional project to address this trafficking within the context of safe labour migration. This report contains the results of that project and provides examples of actions that work.

Trafficking and labour exploitation

This is the second in a series of eight booklets looking at different forms of violence against children, young people and women in Europe. It gives an overview of the problem -- in this case trafficking and labour exploitation -- and presents some of the responses tested by organizations across the EU, supported by the European Commission’s Daphne Programme.

Resource Kit: Child trafficking and labour

This resource kit was written for the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Trafficking (UN.GIFT) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC). It gives an overview of the issue of child trafficking and responses to it, and points to more than 400 resources available for those working in this field. The English version is given here. It can be downloaded in French and Spanish from the ILO website: www.ilo.org.

Trafficking in human beings: New approaches to combating the problem

This report was written for the ILO’s Special Action Programme on Forced Labour (SAPFL) and positions human trafficking and forced labour within the broad framework of labour rights. It contains case studies from across the globe.

Unbearable to the human heart: Child trafficking and action to eliminate it

An introduction to the problem of child trafficking and some of the actions being taken across the globe to prevent it, protect children and help those who have become its victims.