The overarching goals of this Toolkit are those of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, which will be referred to hereinafter as the “Trafficking in Persons Protocol”. These goals are: To prevent and combat trafficking, To protect and assist its victims, To promote international cooperation. In pursuit of these goals, the Toolkit seeks to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and information among policymakers, law enforcers, judges, prosecutors, victim service providers and members of civil society who are working at different levels towards these same objectives.

Trafficking in persons is real in Puntland; both internal and cross border. These guidelines provide a referral system for assisting victims of trafficking through which both state institutions non-state service providers will cooperate and collaborate to perform their responsibility and commitment to protect and provide right-based assistance to victims of trafficking in Puntland State. The aim of these guidelines is to provide the Puntland state and non-state actors engaged in victim assistance and protection with a standardized approach for assisting victims of trafficking (VoTs) in accordance with international standards. These guidelines only provide minimum standards to which stakeholders ought to adhere to while assisting victims of human trafficking. The United Nations Protocol to Prevent and Suppress Trafficking in Persons; the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air; the IOM Handbook on Direct Assistance for Victims of Trafficking provide a strong basis and foundational reference for these guidelines and therefore concepts and terminologies are adopted in line with those references documents. The implementation of these guidelines will be monitored by the Puntland Counter Trafficking Board (PCTB)

Globally, Colombia is regarded as a major source and transit country for trafficking in persons in the Western Hemisphere. Colombia has several conditions as a country of origin for trafficking in persons namely due to the on-going internal armed conflict, which has exacerbated lawlessness, illicit trade, and the strong presence of international criminal gangs. Moreover, Colombia’s economy has suffered severely with high unemployment rates, lack of opportunities, and increasing poverty levels with an estimated 60-65 percent of Colombians to be living below the poverty line.During this period, thousands of communities have been displaced and become extremely vulnerable to trafficking. Such cultural factors may force persons to take high risks, often on a temporary basis, to achieve their goals; which, in return, increases their vulnerability to trafficking. In addition, social and familiar influences may negatively impact upon the individual again increasing their vulnerability to trafficking. These factors combined have fueled the trafficking in persons phenomenon in Colombia; making Colombia the third country most heavily affected by the trafficking in persons phenomenon in Latin American after Brazil and the Dominican Republic.

The overall objective of this pilot project is to contribute to the efforts of the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to enhance its institutional capacities to combat trafficking in children through the development of comprehensive and integrated activities promoting prevention measures of this phenomenon, protection of victims and prosecution of traffickers. The comprehensive nature of this Programme is in direct response to the Government’s expressed interest and request to IOM to provide assistance in the prevention of trafficking, protection of victims of trafficking and prosecution of traffickers in Afghanistan. This initiative will pursue these objectives through a preliminary action-research phase that will provide the necessary insight on the phenomenon of child trafficking in/from Afghanistan in order to better tailor and target the consequent project components.

Trafficking in persons is a modern-day form of slavery involving victims who are typically forced, defrauded or coerced into various forms of exploitation. Men, women and children are treated as inexpensive, expendable and profitable commodities used for benefit (financial or otherwise). Human traffickers often use existing migratory flows and look for migrants that can be potentially exploited. Trafficking has become one of the fastest growing and most lucrative crimes, occurring both worldwide and in individual countries, including those in the Caribbean region. The region’s trafficking trends include intra-regional flows and extra-regional flows (e.g. movement from South Asia or East Asia to the region). Caribbean countries also can serve as a transit route for trafficking, often destined towards North America and Europe. Additionally, internal trafficking, which occurs within a country’s borders, exists in some Caribbean nations. IOM’s Exploratory Assessment of Trafficking in Persons in the Caribbean Region identified some level of human trafficking in the areas of forced labour, sexual exploitation and domestic servitude. The victims (men, women, boys and girls from within and outside the region) were found to be trafficked through legal methods, such as work permits and visas, and illegal methods, such as smuggling.

This desk review is conducted as part of the project entitled “Stop Trafficking Now!” being implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Special Liaison Mission in Addis Ababa, the African Union Commission (AUC) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Secretariat. The project is aimed at contributing to the efforts of the AUC, IGAD and East African Community (EAC) Member States to combat trafficking in persons, consistent with the “Ouagadougou Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings Especially Women and Children” (OAP) and the AUC Initiative against Trafficking (AU.COMMIT) campaign strategies to translate the Ouagadougou Action Plan into action. The OAP is a declaration of the will and joint intent of the African Union, the European Union and their Member States to enhance their efforts to fight human trafficking. It provides specific legal and political recommendations to be implemented by the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and Member States at sub-regional, continental and global levels. It further upholds and reinforces the international and regional legal instruments on human rights, particularly the conventions and protocols on trafficking in persons, elimination of discrimination against women and protection of the rights of the child. As part of the project “Stop Trafficking Now!” a desk review is undertaken on the countertrafficking efforts by IGAD Member States (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda), EAC Member States (Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda) as well as the IGAD and EAC secretariats within the framework of the OAP, the AU.COMMIT strategy document and the recently-developed implementation matrix. A comprehensive review report is thus prepared to be shared and discussed during the launching of the AU.COMMIT campaign in the IGAD and EAC sub-regions and at a sub-regional workshop on making the OAP operational, which is organized in Djibouti from 6–8 December 2010.

The "COVID-19 Analytical Snapshot #14: Human trafficking" is designed to capture the latest information and analysis on Human trafficking in a fast-moving environment. In this snapshot: What is human trafficking? Human trafficking, modern slavery and smuggling: What are the differences? The impact of COVID-19 on victims of trafficking United in the fight against COVID-19 Accrued risks of human trafficking due to the COVID-19 pandemic Main types of exploitation

This publication considers various approaches for measuring rates of human trafficking and how they have been applied in various national contexts. It also presents how different methodologies are needed to address specific regional problems and trends.

The manual goes through, step by step, various aspects of human trafficking data, whether that be data collection methodology, data collection processes, or procedures for reporting. This manual also helps educate readers on the levels of skill, training and sensitivity needed to complete this work in the best way possible.