Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Events:

Advocacy: EU Anti-Trafficking Day, 18 October 2017 [info]
- See also related IOM press release.

Workshop: When Smuggling Goes Wrong: From a Crime against State Sovereignty to a Crime against Persons, Florence, Italy, 26-27 October 2017 [info]
- Note: Participation is by invitation only.

Publications:

40.3 Million Slaves? Four Reasons to Question the New Global Estimates of Modern Slavery (openDemocracy, Oct. 2017) [text]
- The Global Estimates report is available here.

Addressing the Root Causes of Conflict-Driven Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia (East-West Center, Sept. 2017) [text]

Batman in Vienna: Choosing How to Confront Migrant Smuggling (PRIO Blog, Sept. 2017) [text]

Expert Voice: Are Migrants and Refugees a “Vulnerable Group” in the Context of Human Trafficking? (ICMPD, Oct. 2017) [text]

Flow Monitoring Surveys: The Human Trafficking and Other Exploitative Practices Indication Survey - Analysis on Adult and Children on the Mediterranean Routes Compared (IOM, Sept. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Global Trafficking Trends in Focus; IOM Victim of Trafficking Data, 2006-2016 (IOM, Aug. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Eastern Sudan (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Sept. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Human Trafficking through the Central Mediterranean Route: Data, Stories and Information Collected by the International Organization for Migration (IOM, Oct. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Information Exchange between Smugglers and Migrants: An Analysis of Online Interactions in Facebook Groups, Thesis (Univ. of Cambridge, May 2017) [text via SSRN]

"Migrant Smuggling Crackdown Triggered Clashes in Libyan City: Armed Group Head," Reuters, 29 Sept. 2017 [text]

Syrian Refugee Smuggling, 2014-6: Results from Fieldwork (Forced Migration Forum, Oct. 2017) [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (18 Sept. 2017)

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