- You can use the Anti-Slavery in Domestic Legislation Database for a country by country look at national legislation on trafficking, slavery and forced labour
- For more on the laws and legislations around human trafficking, visit the European Commission’s Together Against Trafficking in Human Beings
- This Global Resource Database provides a comprehensive list of resources to learn more about human trafficking
- You may also want to check out this short piece from the UN Human Rights Office: International Instrument Concerning Trafficking in Persons
- You can find all information about national legislation and case law on trafficking on the UNODC’s SHERLOC database
- Every country is different and has different protection and referral mechanisms, and so you can use this map to help you find appropriate reporting mechanisms in many countries: or use the IOM counter- trafficking directory which contains specific country key information on how to refer potential victims according to their profile and needs
To learn more about fake agents, see the FiFpro article Eight Ways to Spot a Fake Agent
The Palermo Protocol (International Definition of Human Trafficking)
- (a) Trafficking in persons shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs;
- (b) The consent of a victim of trafficking to the intended exploitation set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used;
- (c) The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall be considered ‘trafficking in persons’ even if this does not involve any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used;
- (d) “Child” shall mean any person under 18 years of age.
Read the Protocol here: https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/protocoltraffickinginpersons.aspx]