TDH Updated the digital libraryhttp://www.childtrafficking.com - update includes 12 new documents dealingwith Care & Support of Trafficking Survivors

the digital library http://www.childtrafficking.com - a South Asia-based website supported by many activists around the globe. All forms of trafficking are addressed, including trafficking for labor purposes. The website focuses on children, and includes the latest information on strategies for trafficking prevention, as well as for the rehabilitation and reintegration of victims of trafficking. The digital library http://www.childtrafficking.com focuses on the outcomes of trafficking, such as the use of forced labor or slavery like practices, no matter how people arrive in these conditions.


The update includes 12 new documents dealing with Care & Support of Trafficking Survivors


Kovačević, Itana (2007). Children Speak Out : Trafficking Risk and Resilience in Southeast Europe: Montenegro. 154 p. The aim of this regional action-participatory research was to obtain detailed information from children about the factors that expose some of them to the risks of trafficking and exploitation, as well as to learn about their strength and resiliency in unfavourable situations that many of them are faced with. http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Library/?CID=54229abfcfa5649e7003b83dd4755294|5a59

Associazione On The Road. (2002). Article 18: Protection of Victims of Trafficking and fight against crime (Italy and the European scenarios) Research Report. 258 p. This research project developed within the STOP Programme of the European Commission was designed to ameliorate the knowledge on trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation and to evaluate the legislative, social and political interventions implemented in order to fight such phenomenon in Italy. http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Library/?CID=92cc227532d17e56e07902b254dfad10|5a5a

Global Commission on International Migration. (GCIM). (2004). Victims of trafficking for forced prostitution: Protection mechanisms and the right to remain in the destination countries. 46 p. This study aims to explore the right of trafficked victims of forced prostitution to remain in destination countries through the application of legal standards and victim protection mechanisms found at the national, regional and international level. http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Library/?pg=2&CID=92cc227532d17e56e07902b254dfad10|5a5a

International Organization for Migration (IOM). (2005). Awareness-Raising of Judicial Authorities Concerning Trafficking in Human Beings. Handbook. Volume I. 122 p. This handbook is the result of the project ‘Awareness raising of judicial authorities concerning trafficking in human beings’. It is intended as a guide for judiciaries and public prosecutors when involved in a case against traffickers in human beings. http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Library/?pg=3&CID=92cc227532d17e56e07902b254dfad10|5a5a

Kleij, A. (2003). Provisions for Victims of Trafficking in Bonded Sexual Labour, i.e. Prostitution In six European Countries. 92 p. This report aims to list existing legislative and policy initiatives at international, European, and national levels; initiatives that provide victims of trafficking with protection and assistance once they decide to press charges against the trafficker. http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Library/?pg=3&CID=92cc227532d17e56e07902b254dfad10|5a5a

South Asia Regional Initiative/ Equity Support Program. (SARI/Equity). (undated). Regional Victim/Witness Protection Protocol to Combat Trafficking, Commercial Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of Women and Children in South Asia. 21 p. This Regional Victim/ Witness Protection Protocol to combat violence against and commercial sexual exploitation of women and children, prescribes basic guidelines on the standards of prosecution of all offenders profiting from the misery of the victims.
http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Library/?pg=5&CID=92cc227532d17e56e07902b254dfad10|5a5a

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). (2006). РУКОВОДСТВО - ПО ЗАЩИТЕ ДЕТЕЙ – ЖЕРТВ ТОРГОВЛИ ЛЮДЬМИ. 37 p. The following guidelines in Russian set out standards for good practice with respect to protection of and assistance to trafficked children. Russian language version. http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Library/?pg=6&CID=92cc227532d17e56e07902b254dfad10|5a5a

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. (2007). The U.S. Response to Human Trafficking: An Unbalanced Approach. 37 p. This report is focused on the United States’ efforts to protect trafficked persons found in the United States. Under the TVPA, protections, services and benefits are only offered to trafficked persons who are witnesses assisting law enforcement. http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Library/?pg=8&CID=92cc227532d17e56e07902b254dfad10|5a5a

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. (2005). The Struggle Between Migration Control and Victim Protection: The UK Approach to Human Trafficking. 48 p. Once victims are in the UK, traffickers may force them into prostitution or other sexually exploitative conditions, domestic slavery or abusive labor. Traffickers have sold children for fetish ceremonies during which the children may be tortured, dismembered and murdered. http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Library/?pg=8&CID=92cc227532d17e56e07902b254dfad10|5a5a

International Organization for Migration (IOM). (2004). The Mental Health Aspects of Trafficking in Human beings. A set of Minimum Standards. 56 p. These Minimum Standards aim to provide a guiding tool for all types of organizations who are already acting or are intending to develop programs in the field of combating trafficking. http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Library/?CID=98dce83da57b0395e163467c9dae521b|5a5b

South Asia Regional Initiative/ Equity Support Program. (SARI/Equity). (undated). Minimum Standards of Care and Support for the Victims of Trafficking and Other Forms of Violence in South Asia. 33 p. Regional Action Forum on Strengthening the Care of Survivors/Victims of Trafficking and Other Forms of Violence. This Protocol is a collective effort of the entire membership of the Forum and its National Core Groups to provide uniform standards for institutional care in the region, be it governmental or non-governmental. http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Library/?pg=1&CID=98dce83da57b0395e163467c9dae521b|5a5b