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May/June Newsletter

Web Resource for Combating Human Trafficking

This Newsletter will keep you up-to-date on timely additions to Humantrafficking.org. The Web site is updated weekly to reflect the most current events, publications, NGO and Government information, and best practices of the global anti-trafficking community, focusing on East Asia and the Pacific, and the United States.

How You Can Help to Combat Trafficking

RECENT UPDATES

  1. United States Department of State Releases the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report
  2. New ILO Project
  3. Final Statement from “Civil Society and Government Collaboration to Combat Trafficking in Persons in the Greater Mekong Sub-region" Conference
  4. Child Labor in Thailand
  5. Child Labour Situation Improving in Thailand: But Young Migrants Pose New Challenge
  6. Pact Would Protect Indonesian Maids in Malaysia 
  7. Vietnam and Cambodia to Crack Down on Human Trafficking
  8. Thailand Combats Human Trafficking on Cambodian Border
  9. Help for Trafficking Victims in Lao PDR
  10. US Upgrades Cambodia in Fight Against Human Trafficking
  11. Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially in Women and Children
  12. Human Rights Groups Annouce Future Strategy for Access to Justice for Victims of Human Trafficking
  13. Solidarity Center Empowers Vulnerable Workers and Their Children to Fight Human Trafficking in Indonesia
  14. Indonesian Government Starts Crackdown on Labor Smuggling Rings
  15. Equal Access Launches New Project in Cambodia
  16. Announcing a New Organization in Latin America
  17. Global Health Council Update on Second Ruling Against the Anti-Prostitution Pledge
  18. Thailand to Fight Human Trafficking on Cambodian Border
  19. Malaysian Women Rescued from London Sex Ring
  20. Ahead of World Cup, US Warns Germany About Sex Trafficking
  21. Time for a Global Conversation about Migrants
  22. Trafficking and the World Cup
  23. Trafficking Victim Turned Activist Dies of Cancer in Thailand
  24. Philippine Conference Against Trafficking of Children and Women
  25. Cambodian NGOs Release Statement on Legal Matter
  26. Microsoft Pledges Funding to Combat Trafficking in Thailand
  27. Homeless Most At Risk From Traffickers
  28. Governments, Workers' and Employers' Organizations From 5 Mekong Countries Gather to Discuss Human Trafficking Prevention
  29. Norwegian Government Contributes Funding towards Combating Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region
  30. Mekong Governments Demonstrate Concrete Action Against Human Trafficking
  31. The Situation of Hill Tribe Minorities in Thailand
  32. Child Labor Situation in Thailand
  33. Centres to Help Stateless Children to Open in North of Thailand
  34. Op Ed on Bush Administration’s Efforts to Combat Trafficking
  35. Two Agreements Pledging US $1.8 million to COMMIT Process
  36. IDB Launches Regional Campaign against Human Trafficking with Ricky Martin Foundation and IOM
  37. Minister Solberg Keeps Promise to Victims of Human Trafficking
  38. Migrant CARE Statement on Elections to the UN Human Rights Council
  39. Human Trafficking Summit Hears Prosecutions Have Risen
  40. Lao workers in Thailand Legalized

UPCOMING EVENTS

  1. International Conference on Child Labour, Abuse and Neglect
    June 20, 2006 to June 29, 2006
  2. Gender and Human Rights Conference
    June 21, 2006 to June 22, 2006
  3. Crossroads of Control: Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking
    June 23, 2006
  4. 11th International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma
    September 14, 2006 to September 19, 2006
  5. Money & Movements
    November 09, 2006 to November 11, 2006

PAST EVENTS

  1. Organizing Migrant Workers to Fight Slavery and Exploitation on U.S.A. Farms
    June 06, 2006
  2. Oxfam International: Validation/ Learning Workshop
    June 01, 2006 to June 02, 2006
  3. International Children’s Day
    Jun 01, 2006
  4. Civil Society and Government Collaboration to Combat Trafficking in Persons in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
    May 22, 2006 to May 24, 2006
  5. Vietnamese Youths United Against Human Trafficking At The Human Race of Silicon Valley
    May 13, 2006
  6. Fourth Senior Officials Meeting on Human Trafficking in Cambodia
    May 10, 2006 to May 12, 2006
  7. Governments, Workers' and Employers' Organizations From 5 Mekong Countries Gather to Discuss Human Trafficking Prevention
    May 08, 2006 to May 09, 2006

EXPERT CORNER

Thany MOM, Executive Director, Child Rights Foundation, Cambodia

USEFUL INTERNET RESOURCES

  1. UNICRI "Action Programme against Trafficking in Minors for Sexual Purposes"
  2. HumanTrafficking.ca (Human Trafficking in Canada)

UPDATES TO ORGANIZATION PAGES

Indonesia

Cambodia

Malaysia

Thailand

Vietnam

NEW RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

  1. The End of Child Labour: Within Reach
  2. Mekong Sub-region Committed to Ending Trafficking
  3. Reflections on Initiatives to Address Human Trafficking
  4. APLE Survey on Street-Based Child Sexual Exploitation in Cambodia
  5. Forced Migration Review 
  6. Falling Short of the Mark 
  7. Ratification of the Migrants’ Rights Convention, Bangladesh, Korea and New Zealand
  8. DEPDC April 2006 Newsletter
  9. Raising Our Own Awareness: Getting to Grips with Trafficking in Persons and Related Problems in South-East Asia and Beyond 
  10. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
  11. The Girls and the Trafficking. Study on the Development of Trafficking in Women in Albania 2005 
  12. Trafficking in Persons: Global Patterns 
  13. Assistance for the Implementation of the ECOWAS Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons 
  14. Good Practices for Targeting the Demand for Prostitution and Trafficking 
  15. The Mekong Challenge. Human Trafficking: Redefining Demand Destination Factors in the Trafficking of Children and Young Women in the Mekong Sub-region 
  16. Primer on the Male Demand for Prostitution
  17. Participatory Monitoring. Guidelines for Practitioners in the Fight against Human Trafficking. Mekong Sub-regional Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and Women
  18. Trafficking in Women Forced Labour and Domestic Work in the Context of the Middle East and Gulf Region 
  19. Struggling to Survive. Children in Armed Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 
  20. What Happens When Prostitution Becomes Work? An Update on Legalisation of Prostitution in Australia 
  21. At What Price, Honour?: Research into domestic trafficking of Vietnamese (girl) children for sexual exploitation, from slums in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 
  22. Review of a Decade of Research on Trafficking in Persons, Cambodia 
  23. Vital Voices International Edition May 2006 
  24. The Links between Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: A Briefing Handbook
  25. Whose City? Migration as a Gendered Process
  26. Child Wise Newsletter June 2006 

CAPACITY BUILDING TOOLS

  1. Strengthening Protection of Migrant Workers and their Families with International Human Rights Treaties – A Do-It-Yourself Kit
  2. Raising One Voice: A Training Manual for Advocates on the Rights of Child Domestic Workers
  3. Resource Book for Law Enforcement Officers on Good Practices in Combating Child Trafficking 


About Us

HumanTrafficking.org is managed by the Academy for Educational Development (AED) in Washington, DC and supported by the US Department of State.




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