03 October 2025

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Event:

12th Meeting of the Working Group on the Smuggling of Migrants, Vienna, 9-10 October 2025 [info]
- Topics to be discussed are "Legislative approaches and challenges related to smuggling of migrants" and "Legislative and policy approaches to the protection, assistance and prevention aspects of addressing the smuggling of migrants." Follow link for meeting-related documentation.

Short pieces:

IOM Calls for Stronger Legal Protections for Victims of Forced Criminality (IOM, July 2025) [text]

People smugglers adapt to attempts to shut them down – financial sanctions won’t stop the boats (The Conversation, July 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Young Somali refugees targeted by Libyan-based traffickers (ISS Today, Sept. 2025) [text]

Reports:  

Addressing the trafficking of women migrant workers in poorly regulated sectors (UN Women, Sept. 2025) [text]

A Gender-sensitive Approach to Combating Human Trafficking and Support Asylum-seeking Survivors in the EU, Policy Note, no. 48 (ECRE, July 2025) [text]

Smuggling routes to and through Yemen: Mapping journeys, remigration experiences, & onward movement intentions (Mixed Migration Centre, Aug. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Human Trafficking: A Focus on the United Nations Framework and the Sustainable Development Goals," The Age of Human Rights Journal, no. 25 (2025) [open access]

"Conceptualising Vulnerability in Forced Displacement: The Role of Human Rights-Based Approaches in Mitigating Trafficking Risks—Findings from Poland and Romania," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 5 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

"The Convergence of Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in West Africa: Migration Pressure Factors and Criminal Actors," Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 8 (July 2025) [open access]

"Editorial: Unraveling human trafficking dynamics amidst mixed migration and global crises," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 6 Aug. 2025 [open access]
- Discusses the articles included in the research topic of the same name.

"The Estrangement of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol from its Parent Treaty against Transnational Organized Crime," Transnational Criminal Law Review, vol. 4, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Facilitators of Irregular Migrants’ Stay and Border Crossings in Europe: Legal Consciousness, Motivations, and Rationalisations," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 27, nos. 2-3 (2025) [open access]

"Future Progress and Prospects of the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol," Transnational Criminal Law Review, vol. 4, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, no. 25 (Sept. 2025) [contents]
- Mix of articles with one that is open access.

"The UN Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants – Some Reflections on the Occasion of the UNTOC’s 25th Anniversary," Transnational Criminal Law Review, vol. 4, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

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