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 objective of the project is to support selected Member States in preventing and combating human trafficking and migrant smuggling 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 at further developing and disseminating existing material to customize them to the specific needs of selected beneficiary countries.The project supports organisation of anti-human trafficking conference in Ashgabad, Turkmenistan in November 2009.

 

ROA/117 - "Strengthening the criminal justice capacity to disrupt key human trafficking routes in Egypt, Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan"

The main objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity of the national criminal justice systems in three selected countries to investigate, prosecute and convict human traffickers. In this context it hopes to mark a turning point in the selected countries' ability to effectively counter human trafficking into and through their territories. Through assessment, analysis, strategizing and training, UNODC aims to strengthen the capacity of the national criminal justice systems and its competent authorities in the selected countries to investigate, prosecute and convict human traffickers.

 

UZB/S20 - "Strengthening the criminal justice response to trafficking in persons in Uzbekistan"

UNODC assists the Uzbek Government in strengthening its criminal justice response to trafficking in persons in line with the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its supplementing Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children. In pursuing this objective, project activities are focused on: supporting the Government in its efforts to strengthen anti-human trafficking legislation; increasing the capacities of law enforcement and prosecution through training, establishing a human trafficking database, and facilitating regional and international cooperation.