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CAPSA project
Factors and impacts of the trafficking of girls from Karamoja region, Uganda into Kenya
This study is a call to action for governments, NGOs, and communities to address this transnational issue with targeted interventions.
Child migration, child trafficking and child labour in India
This study is an attempt to make an in‐depth enquiry into the phenomenon of child migration and trafficking of children in India, with poor children most frequently becoming child labourers, often under the most hazardous and exploitative...
Be the change - Community mobilization pack
This manual is the result of a collaborative effort between the International Labour Organization, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Children¿s Fund (UNICEF) as part of the UN Joint Programme on Trafficking...
Child trafficking - Essentials
This hand-out clarifies the concept of child trafficking including the labour dimension, and describes the nature of child trafficking and its appearances. It also offers short descriptions of effective responses in the world of work.
Training material
Training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of exploitation
This training manual – developed by ILO and UNICEF under the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking – seeks to aid governments, workers, employers, international, and non-governmental organizations that combat trafficking in children for...
Meeting the challenge: Proven practices for human trafficking prevention in the greater Mekong sub-region
Compendium of proven practices and lessons learned from ILO's Mekong Sub-regional project to Combat Trafficking in Women and Children (2000-2008). Covers achievements of the project in the areas of research, policy development and direct action. It...
Combating trafficking in children for labour exploitation: A resource kit for policy-makers and practitioners
This resource kit captures over 10 years of work by IPEC and its partners and makes the Programme’s experiences and knowledge available to those who design, implement and improve policy and programming to fight child trafficking. It is composed of...
The Mekong Challenge: Winding Roads – Young migrants from Lao PDR and their vulnerability to human trafficking
An analysis of data from the Lao PDR Migration Survey of 2003, this report investigates the motives, family circumstances, and socio-economic and educational status of young migrants who had returned from working in Thailand. It correlates these...
The Mekong Challenge: 41 Brothels – Prostitution, trafficking and human rights in Sihanouk Ville, Cambodia
This survey is part of a series of studies into recruitment practices and working conditions in the Greater Mekong Sub-region of children and young women in sectors vulnerable to human trafficking for labour exploitation. It goes to the heart of one...
Child trafficking: The ILO's response through IPEC
A concise overview of the problem of child trafficking, its causes and the factors that make children vulnerable to becoming its victims. This briefing note also describes the experience and lessons learned of the ILO and its partners in combatting...
Rapid assessment report on trafficking of children into worst forms of child labour, including child soldiers in Uganda
Subtitle: astudy conducted in the districts of Busia, Pader, Kalangala Masaka and Kampala as part of IPEC TBP preparatory activities.The rapid assessment was undertaken to collect data on child trafficking in Uganda with ultimate goal of designing...
Commercial and sexual exploitation and child trafficking: capacity building for direct assistance (TECL Paper 36)
This paper deals specifically with non-governmental organisations or community-based organisations. To a considerable extent, at least here in Gauteng, the Government’s Child Labour Programme of Action relies heavily on such organisations to provide...
Commercial sexual exploitation of children and child trafficking: A South African national situation analysis (TECL Paper 16)
This report deals with the first two focus areas, CSEC and child trafficking. TECL emphasises prevention and educational rehabilitation as primary strategies for addressing CSEC and child trafficking in South Africa.
The Mekong Challenge - Cambodia's "Beer Promotion Girls", their recruitment, working conditions and vulnerabilities
This survey is part of a series of studies into recruitment practices and working conditions in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) of children and young women in sectors vulnerable to human trafficking, and the associated and inherent sexual and...
Child trafficking: the people involved
A synthesis of findings from Albania, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine.
PROTECT CEE - Romania
PROTECT CEE project in Bulgaria: Addressing child labour and child trafficking
This brochure provides a comprehensive overview of the national context shaping child labour and child trafficking in Bulgaria. Developed within the framework of the ILO’s "Project of technical assistance against child labour and sexual exploitation...
PROTECT CEE - Kosovo
PROTECT CEE - Moldova
PROTECT CEE - Ukraine