United Nations websites
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT)
United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children (Palermo Protocol)
UN , ODCCP, After Palermo: An Overview of what the Convention and Protocols Hope to Accomplish (2001)
Report on trafficking in women, women's migration and violence against women, submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights by Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences. The most complete report about trafficking and exploitation of women: historical evolution of trafficking, current definitions, responsibility of states, the root causes of trafficking, recommendations and remedies...
IOM, Counter Trafficking
Government of Canada websites
Justice Canada
RCMP
Non-governmental organizations' websites
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Global Alliance against the Trafficking of Women
Globalrights.org
Human Rights Watch
International Bureau for Children's Rights - Information on child trafficking (especially in Canada and Québec)
Protection Project
Other resources
UNHCR, Guidelines on International Protection: The application of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees to victims of trafficking and persons at risk of being trafficked, 7 April 2006
Council of Europe, Campaign to combat Trafficking of human beings
John Davies, "The role of Migration Policy in Creating and Sustaining Trafficking Harm", Paper, European Conference on Preventing and Combating Trafficking of Human Beings, 18-20 September 2002 PDF
Brussels Declaration on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
US Department of State, Trafficking in Persons 2006 Report
Trafficking In Human Beings and Organized Crime: A Literature Review, Christine Bruckert and Colette Parent, for the RCMP, April 2002
Victims of Trafficking in Persons: Perspectives from the Canadian Community Sector, Jacqueline Oxman-Martinez, Marie Lacroix, Jill Hanley, commissioned by the Department of Justice Canada, 1 August 2005
International Approaches to Human Trafficking: The Call for a Gender Sensitive Perspective in International Law, Coontz, Phyllis and Catherine Griebel, Women’s Human Rights, 2004.
Assisting Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings, CCEM, 2003. This document is a guide addressed to people working with survivors of trafficking.
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