Charles Lee

The United Nations just released their “Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons” this past Thursday (October 9th). It is a thorough document (over 500+ pages) that provides up-to-date stats, legislative development, and global strategies. According to UN’s website, the goals of this toolkit are to:

• Prevent and combat trafficking,
• Protect and assist its victims, and
• Promote international cooperation.

In addition, this toolkit seeks to provide:

• Guidance in the form of legislative explanation, extracts of principles, guidelines, recommendations, directives, checklists, forms, etc expert discussion of issues.
• Recommended resources such as training materials, websites, legislative guides, online conventions, analysis and published reports produced by anti-trafficking IGO, NGO and government partners around the world.
• Promising practices of anti-trafficking interventions from around the world.

The following is a list of the chapter themes found in the toolkit:

• International Legal Framework
• Problem Assessment and Strategy Development
• Legislative Framework
• International Criminal Justice Cooperation
• Law Enforcement and Prosecution
• Victim Identification
• Immigration Status of Victims and their Return and Repatriation
• Victim Protection and Assistance
• Prevention of Trafficking in Persons
• Monitoring and Evaluation

I would strongly ask that those of you seriously considering participating in the ending of slavery to read and share the information on this toolkit.

Click here to download your free copy of the toolkit.
Click here to visit the UN website.

This post is tagged Human Trafficking, Justice, Slavery, Social Justice, United Nations