Links
Download a PDF outlining the signs of trafficking here.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) deals with Human Trafficking.
The website has details of its work in prevention, protection and prosecution, including the report Trafficking in Persons: Global Patterns
and the Global report on Trafficking in Persons February 2009
The UNODC also runs the Blueheart Campaign. Join their cause on Facebook and subscribe to the RSS News feed.
The UNODC has set up the Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking. This site has publications and best practice guides, including a tool kit for combating human trafficking.
Southeast European Cooperative Initiative Regional Center for Combating Transborder Crime
Look, and see our disgrace! - a very useful and comprehensive briefing paper by the Churches' Regional Commission for Yorkshire and the Humber. Includes ideas for what the churches can do.
The 'Natasha' Trade – Transnational Sex Trafficking
A theological call for advocacy for those who are trafficked.
Unanima International’s Vision Statement on Human Trafficking and some theological questions relating to it.
The Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights on Human Trafficking and the British Government’s response.
A Scoping Project on Child Trafficking in the UK, June 2007, published by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre.
Other articles:
The Blue Blindfold campaign, which seeks to raise awareness of the nature and extent of human trafficking in the UK
and particularly of the signs which might raise your suspicions that someone has been trafficked or is being groomed in preparation for internal trafficking.
Comparison of the Dutch and Swedish legislation.
The need to tackle the demand for sex to win the battle against trafficking of women.
A report on the human rights violations women are subjected to when "rescued" by anti-trafficking groups who employ methods using deception, force and coercion.
Young girls, shipped to Britain to work as child prostitutes.
Texas becomes a major hub for trafficking in the US.
Crime gangs 'expand sex slavery into shires'.
Papers from the 5th Annual Meeting (2008) of Christian Organisations Against Trafficking in Human Beings (COATNET)
Stop Demand – a charitable trust promoting a world free of sexual violence.
Freedom Firm – rescue, restoration and Justice for victims of sex trafficking in India.
The Garden of Hope - transforming the lives of the sexually exploited in Chiang Mai in Thailand.
The Esther Benjamins Trust - rescues and rehabilitates Nepali child trafficking victims from lives of bonded labour in India’s circuses.
Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking Across Europe – working for a world without trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Stop the Traffik - fighting to prevent the sale of people, protect the trafficked and prosecute
the traffickers.
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