30 July 2026

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

Anti-Trafficking State of Play 2026 (USCRI, July 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Statement on World Day against Trafficking in Persons, 2026 (OHCHR, July 2026) [text]

Reports:

Child trafficking in the context of statelessness, migration and forced displacement: report of the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Siobhán Mullally, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/62/41 (UN Human Rights Council, May 2026) [access
- See also related inputs submitted to the rapporteur to assist in the preparation of her report.

"The Criminalisation of Humanitarian Actors under Counter-Smuggling Measures and Facilitation Laws," Section 4 in Criminalisation and Constraint of Humanitarian Action at Sea, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series, no. 48 (UNHCR, June 2026) [text]
- Scroll to p. 18.

Smuggling dynamics within and to Mauritania (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2026) [access]
- Available in English and French.

Study on the collection and improvements of EU Statistics on Trafficking in Human Beings (European Commission, July 2026) [text]

Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings in Asylum and Reception, Situational Update, no. 26 (EU Agency for Asylum, July 2026 [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, vol. 7, no. 1 (2026) [contents]
- Special issue on "Human Trafficking, Enslavement and CRSV, with a Focus on Nigeria."

"The Migration–Trafficking Nexus: Child Refugees at Risk and the Slow Violence that Deepens Their Vulnerability," Journal of Criminal Law, vol. 90, no. 1 (Feb. 2026) [preprint]
- Focuses on Sweden.

"People-smuggling through Mexico and the role of organised crime and corruption," Chapter in Organised Crime and Migration: Criminal Groups, Corruption and the Displacement Crisis in Central America and Mexico (Univ. of London Press, 2026) [open access]

"Underinclusion by Design in Human Trafficking Protection" Iowa Law Review, vol. 112 (Forthcoming, 2027) [preprint]
- Focuses on the US.

"When return becomes re-victimization: Gendered structural violence and Nigerian victims of trafficking," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 3 (Sept. 2026) [open access]

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