20 September 2022

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Blog posts & press:

Addressing human trafficking among refugees and internally displaced persons in Uganda: a role for human rights treaty bodies? (Irish Centre for Human Rights Blog, July 2022) [text]

Hidden in Plain Sight: Trafficking in Forced Displacement Contexts (Irish Centre for Human Rights Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

"How European courts are wrongfully prosecuting asylum seekers as smugglers," The New Humanitarian, 1 Sept. 2022 [text]

"How many Ukrainian refugees have been trafficked? We won’t know for years," Washington Post, 22 July 2022 [text]

Tackling the Climate Change-Migration-Human Trafficking Nexus in the East and Horn of Africa: Signs of Promise in the Kampala Declaration on Migration, Environment and Climate Change? (RLI Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, 30 July 2022 [info]
- The theme was "Use and abuse of technology." See also related UNHCR press release.

Reports:

At risk: exploitation and the UK asylum system (UNHCR & British Red Cross, Aug. 2022) [text via EIN]

Contact between smugglers and refugees and migrants in West and North Africa (Mixed Migration Centre, Aug. 2022) [text]

Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage (ILO, IOM & Walk Free Foundation, Sept. 2022) [text]
- See also related press release; executive summaries are also available in English, ChineseFrench, Italian and Spanish.

Mapping of Protection Services for Vulnerable People on the Move, Including Victims of Trafficking, on Routes Toward the Central and Western Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic (UNHCR, July 2022) [text]

North Korean Female Defectors in China: Human Trafficking and Exploitation (E-International Relations, Aug. 2022) [text]

Trafficking in Persons Report 2022 (US Dept. of State, July 2022) [access]
- The introductory essay focuses on "Survivor Engagement in the Anti-trafficking Field: History, Lessons Learned, and Looking Forward." 

Multimedia:

Challenging Smuggling Myths on the U.S. Mexico Border: A Podcast with Anthropologist Gabriella Sanchez (Border Chronicle, Sept. 2022) [access]

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