Ongoing projects: Human Trafficking

GLO/T55 - "Promoting the implementation of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, and the Protocol against Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, both supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime"

The project's objective is to support selected Member States in preventing and combating human trafficking and migrant smuggling. It will achieve this objective by promoting the ratification and implementation of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (Trafficking Protocol), and the Protocol against Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air (Smuggling Protocol), both supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. The project aims to further develop and disseminate existing material, customizing them to the specific needs of selected beneficiary countries. The project supported the organisation of the anti-human trafficking conference in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in November 2009.

 

XAC/X44 - "Strengthening the capacity of the Central Asian Republics to protect and assist victims of human trafficking and smuggled migrants, especially women and children, in partnership with NGO and civil society actors"

The project aims at strengthening the capacity of the Central Asian countries to identify, protect and assist victims of human trafficking and smuggled migrants, especially women and children (hereinafter, collectively, "Victims"), in partnership with NGOs and other civil society actors, mainly by providing legal drafting support focusing on the protection of Victims' rights, developing operational standards for law enforcement personnel on victim identification and conducting training on best practices, and developing a Partnership Plan for effective cooperation among Government, NGOs and civil society actors.