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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
- United States
Department of State Releases the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report
- New ILO Project
- Final Statement from
“Civil Society and Government Collaboration to Combat Trafficking in Persons
in the Greater Mekong Sub-region" Conference
- Child Labor in
Thailand
- Child Labour
Situation Improving in Thailand: But Young Migrants Pose New Challenge
- Pact Would Protect
Indonesian Maids in Malaysia
- Vietnam and Cambodia
to Crack Down on Human Trafficking
- Thailand Combats
Human Trafficking on Cambodian Border
- Help for Trafficking
Victims in Lao PDR
- US Upgrades Cambodia
in Fight Against Human Trafficking
- Special Rapporteur
on Trafficking in Persons, Especially in Women and Children
- Human Rights Groups
Annouce Future Strategy for Access to Justice for Victims of Human
Trafficking
- Solidarity Center
Empowers Vulnerable Workers and Their Children to Fight Human Trafficking in
Indonesia
- Indonesian
Government Starts Crackdown on Labor Smuggling Rings
- Equal Access
Launches New Project in Cambodia
- Announcing a New
Organization in Latin America
- Global Health
Council Update on Second Ruling Against the Anti-Prostitution Pledge
- Thailand to Fight
Human Trafficking on Cambodian Border
- Malaysian Women
Rescued from London Sex Ring
- Ahead of World Cup,
US Warns Germany About Sex Trafficking
- Time for a Global
Conversation about Migrants
- Trafficking and the
World Cup
- Trafficking Victim
Turned Activist Dies of Cancer in Thailand
- Philippine
Conference Against Trafficking of Children and Women
- Cambodian NGOs
Release Statement on Legal Matter
- Microsoft Pledges
Funding to Combat Trafficking in Thailand
- Homeless Most At
Risk From Traffickers
- Governments,
Workers' and Employers' Organizations From 5 Mekong Countries Gather to
Discuss Human Trafficking Prevention
- Norwegian Government
Contributes Funding towards Combating Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong
Sub-region
- Mekong Governments
Demonstrate Concrete Action Against Human Trafficking
- The Situation of
Hill Tribe Minorities in Thailand
- Child Labor
Situation in Thailand
- Centres to Help
Stateless Children to Open in North of Thailand
- Op Ed on Bush
Administration’s Efforts to Combat Trafficking
- Two Agreements
Pledging US $1.8 million to COMMIT Process
- IDB Launches
Regional Campaign against Human Trafficking with Ricky Martin Foundation and
IOM
- Minister Solberg
Keeps Promise to Victims of Human Trafficking
- Migrant CARE
Statement on Elections to the UN Human Rights Council
- Human Trafficking
Summit Hears Prosecutions Have Risen
- Lao workers in
Thailand Legalized
UPCOMING EVENTS
- International
Conference on Child Labour, Abuse and Neglect
June 20, 2006 to June 29,
2006
- Gender and Human
Rights Conference
June 21, 2006 to June 22, 2006
- Crossroads of
Control: Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking
June 23, 2006
- 11th International
Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma
September 14, 2006 to
September 19, 2006
- Money & Movements
November 09, 2006 to November 11, 2006
PAST EVENTS
- Organizing Migrant
Workers to Fight Slavery and Exploitation on U.S.A. Farms
June 06, 2006
- Oxfam International:
Validation/ Learning Workshop
June 01, 2006 to June 02, 2006
- International
Children’s Day
Jun 01, 2006
- Civil Society and
Government Collaboration to Combat Trafficking in Persons in the Greater
Mekong Sub-Region
May 22, 2006 to May 24, 2006
- Vietnamese Youths
United Against Human Trafficking At The Human Race of Silicon
Valley
May 13, 2006
- Fourth Senior
Officials Meeting on Human Trafficking in Cambodia
May 10, 2006 to May
12, 2006
- 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
- UNICRI "Action
Programme against Trafficking in Minors for Sexual Purposes"
- HumanTrafficking.ca
(Human Trafficking in Canada)
UPDATES TO ORGANIZATION PAGES
Indonesia
Cambodia
Malaysia
Thailand
Vietnam
NEW RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
- The End of
Child Labour: Within Reach
- Mekong
Sub-region Committed to Ending Trafficking
- Reflections on
Initiatives to Address Human Trafficking
- APLE Survey on
Street-Based Child Sexual Exploitation in Cambodia
- Forced
Migration Review
- Falling Short
of the Mark
- Ratification of
the Migrants’ Rights Convention, Bangladesh, Korea and New Zealand
- DEPDC April
2006 Newsletter
- Raising Our Own
Awareness: Getting to Grips with Trafficking in Persons and Related Problems
in South-East Asia and Beyond
- United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
- The Girls and
the Trafficking. Study on the Development of Trafficking in Women in Albania
2005
- Trafficking in
Persons: Global Patterns
- Assistance for
the Implementation of the ECOWAS Plan of Action against Trafficking in
Persons
- Good Practices
for Targeting the Demand for Prostitution and Trafficking
- The Mekong
Challenge. Human Trafficking: Redefining Demand Destination Factors in the
Trafficking of Children and Young Women in the Mekong Sub-region
- Primer on the
Male Demand for Prostitution
- Participatory
Monitoring. Guidelines for Practitioners in the Fight against Human
Trafficking. Mekong Sub-regional Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and
Women
- Trafficking in
Women Forced Labour and Domestic Work in the Context of the Middle East and
Gulf Region
- Struggling to
Survive. Children in Armed Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo
- What Happens
When Prostitution Becomes Work? An Update on Legalisation of Prostitution in
Australia
- At What Price,
Honour?: Research into domestic trafficking of Vietnamese (girl) children for
sexual exploitation, from slums in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Review of a
Decade of Research on Trafficking in Persons, Cambodia
- Vital Voices
International Edition May 2006
- The Links
between Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: A Briefing Handbook
- Whose City?
Migration as a Gendered Process
- Child Wise
Newsletter June 2006
CAPACITY BUILDING TOOLS
- Strengthening
Protection of Migrant Workers and their Families with International Human
Rights Treaties – A Do-It-Yourself Kit
- Raising One
Voice: A Training Manual for Advocates on the Rights of Child Domestic
Workers
- Resource
Book for Law Enforcement Officers on Good Practices in Combating Child
Trafficking
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