Stop Violence Against Women
Human Trafficking: Background
- Trafficking of Persons: Amnesty International Fact Sheet
- Trafficking is modern day slave trading. It involves transporting people away from the communities they live in by the threat or use of violence, deception or coercion so they can be exploited as forced or enslaved workers. When children are trafficked, no violence, deception or coercion needs to be involved: simply transporting them into exploitative conditions constitutes trafficking.
Read more (PDF) | Testimonies
- Amnesty International's Work on Human Trafficking Worldwide:
- Speech delivered by Actor Paul Sorvino on behalf of his daughter Mira Sorvino at the Lifetime TV reception held at the United Nations on October 20, 2005.
- Testimony: Ending Human Trafficking in Germany
- Issue Brief: End Human Trafficking
- Issue Brief: Implement Treaty Against Human Trafficking
- Issue Brief: Regulate International Marriage Broker Industry; Protect Immigrant Brides Against Domestic Violence
- France: Violence against women: a matter for the State
- Council of Europe: Recommendations to Strengthen the December 2004 Draft European Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
- Kosovo (Serbia and Montenegro): "So Does it Mean that We Have the rights?" Protecting the Human Rights of Women and Girls Trafficked for Forced Prostitution in Kosovo
- Memorandum on the Draft European Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings: Protection of the Rights of Trafficked Persons
- Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo): The Legacy of Past Human Rights Abuses (Mar 31, 2004)
- Compilation of Annual Report Trafficking Mentions (PDF)
- Congressional Human Rights Caucus Members Briefing Sex-Trafficking in Eastern Europe: Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine (PDF)
- Resources on Human Trafficking:
