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Saturday, September 20, 2014

2014 State Ratings on Human Trafficking Laws | Polaris | Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery

2014 State Ratings on Human Trafficking Laws | Polaris | Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery:

Polaris has rated all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on 10 categories of laws that are critical to a basic legal framework that combats human trafficking, punishes traffickers and supports survivors.

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 http://www.polarisproject.org/what-we-do/policy-advocacy/national-policy/state-ratings-on-human-trafficking-laws

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  • ACLU-Yale Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic: V i c t i m s o f c o m p l a c e n c y : The Ongoing Trafficking and Abuse of Third Country Nationals by U.S. Government Contractors. 2012
  • ADB: Broken Lives-Trafficking in Human Beings in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • ARTIP: Study Detention of Trafficked Persons in Shelters: A Legal and Policy Analysis
  • ASEAN: 2007 Child-Sex Tourism Review
  • ATEST: Beyond SB 657:How Businesses Can Meet and Exceed California’s Requirements to Prevent Forced Labor in Supply Chains
  • ATEST: THE PATH TO FREEDOM: A PRESIDENTIAL AGENDA FOR ABOLISHING MODERN SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
  • Alison Siskin and Liana Sun Wyler, CRS: Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress
  • Amnesty International-It's in Our Hands: Stop Violence Against Women-Kosoovo
  • Anti-slavery International: Trafficking For Forced Labour: UK Country Report 2006
  • Asia Foundation: Combating Human Trafficking in Cambodia
  • Asia Foundation: Combating Human Trafficking in Mongolia: Issues and Opportunities
  • Asia Foundation: Combating Human Trafficking in Vietnam
  • Asia Foundation: Counter-trafficking in Persons in Cambodia
  • Asia Foundation: Human Trafficking Trials in Cambodia A Report by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (July 2010)
  • Asia Foundation: Utilizing Information Technology to Address Human Trafficking
  • Attorney General’s Annual Report to Congress and Assessment of U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons Fiscal Year 2009 July 2010
  • Beyond Borders: Fact Sheet on Traffcking of Children for Sexual Purposes, February 2009
  • Bon Appetit Foundation: Inventory of Farmworker Issues and Protections in the United States. March 2011
  • CAASE Allison Dunn Burque: Empowering Younf Men Toward Ending Sexual Exploitation (2009)
  • CAASE Michelle Willoughby: Demand Deterrence Strategies:International Initiatives to Eliminate Demand for the Sex Trade
  • CAASE Rachel Durchstag, AM and Samr Goswarmi, CAASE, Deconstructing the Demand for Prostitution
  • CEOP:Strategic Threat Assessment Child Trafficking in the UK 2010
  • CRS: Trafficking in Person: US Policy and Issues for Congress February 2010
  • Clause Daman: Trafficking in human beings
  • Dan Rivers: Exposing trafficking in supply chains through investigative journalism. 2012
  • Data and Research on Human Trafficking: Bibliography of Research-Based Literature ELŻBIETA M. GOŹDZIAK, PH.D. AND MICAH N. BUMP, M.A. 2008
  • Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn, Vanessa Chirgwin, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women: The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation, 1999.
  • E-notes: Report on the implementation of anti-trafficking policies and interventions in the 27 EU Member States from a human rights perspective (2008 and 2009)
  • ECPAT UK Bordering on Concern: Child Trafficking in Wales
  • ECPAT-USA, Inc. : Who is There to Help Us?
  • EJF: So;d to the Sea:Human Trafficking in Thailand’s Fishing Industry
  • Erin Williamson, Nicole M. Dutch, and Heather J. Clawson Caliber, an ICF International Company: Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatment for Victims of Human Trafficking
  • European Commission ...--The 2012 Games and human trafficking. Identifying possible risks and relevant good practice from other cities. JAnuary 2011
  • European Commission: Trafficking in human beings
  • Finnwatch: E x e c u t i v e S u m m a r y: Cheap has a High Price:Responsibility problems relating to international private label products and food production in Thailand
  • Fiona David: Labour trafficking. Nov. 10. Australian Institute of Criminology
  • Florida State Univ. CAHR: Florida Strategic Plan on Human Trafficking. 2010
  • GAATW The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Measures on Human Rights around the World
  • GAO: H-2B VISA PROGRAM Closed Civil and Criminal Cases Illustrate Instances of H-2B Workers Being Targets of Fraud and Abuse
  • GAO: HUMAN TRAFFICKING Better Data, Strategy, and Reporting Needed to Enhance U.S. Antitrafficking Efforts Abroad
  • Global Commission on HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights & Health
  • Gordon Brown: Child Labour & Educational Disadvantage – Breaking the Link, Building Opportunity
  • Greater Cincinnatic Human Trafficking Report
  • Greenpeace: Driving Destruction in the Amazon. Feb. 2013.
  • Gregory M. Maney, et al, Meeting the Service Needs of Human Trafficking Survivors in the New York City Metropolitan Area: Assessment and Recommendations 2011
  • HM Government: Human Trafficking: The Government's Strategy
  • Heather J. Clawson ; Mary Layne ; Kevonne Small-- Estimating Human Trafficking into the United States:Development of a Methodology. September 2006.
  • Heather J. Clawson, Nicole Dutch, Amy Solomon, and Lisa Goldblatt Grace: Human Trafficking Into and Within the United States: A Review of the Literature 2009
  • Heather J. Clawson, Nicole Dutch, Susan Lopez, Suzanna Tiapula: Prosecuting Human Trafficking Cases
  • Human Rights Council Resolution 8/12. Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children
  • Human Rights Watch: LONELY SERVITUDE Child Domestic Labor in Morocco
  • Human Rights Watch: Owed Justice: Thai Women Trafficked into Debt Bondage in Japan 000
  • Human Rights Watch: THE DOMESTIC WORKERS CONVENTION: TURNING NEW GLOBAL LABOR STANDARDS INTO CHANGE ON THE GROUND
  • Human Rights Watch: The Rehab Archipelago Forced Labor and Other Abuses in Drug Detention Centers in Southern Vietnam
  • Human Rights Watch: Walls at Every Turn Abuse of Migrant Domestic Workers through Kuwait’s Sponsorship System. 2010
  • Human Rights Watch: “As If I Am Not Human” Abuses against Asian Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia. 2008.
  • I'nal Transport Workers Federation: Out of Sight Out of Mind: Searfarers, Fishers & Human Rights
  • IHRB and GBIHR: State of Play The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights in Business Relationships
  • ILO Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings 2008
  • ILO The Cost of Coercion (2009)
  • ILO: Domestic Workers Across the World: Global and regional statistics and the extent of legal protection
  • ILO: Studies from the ILP Meking Sub-Regional Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and Women
  • ILO_Legal Aspects of Trafficking for Forced Labor in Europe
  • IOM 2011 CASE DATA ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING: GLOBAL FIGURES & TRENDS 1 February 2012
  • IOM and NRC: Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States September 2013.
  • IOM--The Causes and Consequences of Evidence from the IOM Human Trafficking Database
  • IOM--Trafficking of men: A trend less considered. The case of Belauras and Ukraine
  • IOM: COUNTER TRAFFICKING AND ASSISTANCE TO VULNERABLE MIGRANTS ANNUAL REPORT OF ACTIVITIES 2011
  • IOM: Data ansd Research on Human Trafficking: A Global Survey
  • IOM: Trafficking of Fishermen in Thailand. 2011
  • IOM: Victims: Trafficking in the Balkans. 2001
  • Inst. for Conflict Research: The Nature and Extent of Human Trafficking in Northern Ireland. 2010
  • Institut Universitaire d’Etude du développement, AFESIP: The Transition of Garment Factory Girls into Prostitution into Laos
  • Jade Lindley, Laura Beacroft: Vulnerabilities to trafficking in persons in the Pacific Islands. Australian Institute of Criminology 2011
  • James O. Finckenauer and Ko-lin Chin: Researching and Rethinking Sex Trafficking: The Movement of Chinese Women to Asia and the United States for Commercial Sex
  • Jean Bruggeman & Elizabeth Keyes (authors), Amanda Kloer Irena Lieberman Robin Runge (editors) Meeting the Legal Needs of Human Trafficking Victims.
  • Jennifer Kathleen Lobasz: Victims, Villains, and the Virtuous Constructing the Problems of “Human Trafficking”
  • Jennifer Sorensen, Sara Piazzano, Olga DiPretoro, Carolyn O’Donnell, Winrock International: Addressing inter-linkages between gender-based violence & trafficking in persons to prevent reinforcement of inequalities
  • Jennifer Sorensen, Sara Piazzano, Olga DiPretoro, Carolyn O’Donnell, Winrock International: Addressing inter-linkages between gender-based violence & trafficking in persons to prevent reinforcement of inequalities
  • Jody Raphael and Brenda Myers-Powell, DePaul College of Law--From Victims to Victimers: Interviews wih 25 ExPimps in Chago, Seoptember 2010
  • Jody Raphael and Deborah L. Shapiro: SISTERS SPEAK OUT: THE LIVES AND NEEDS OF PROSTITUTED WOMEN IN CHICAGO-A Research Study
  • Johannes Koettl: Human Traffi cking, Modern Day Slavery, and Economic Exploitation
  • KWAT: Driven Away: Trafficking of Kachin Women on the China-Burma Border [Fr. this URL, go to toolbar at the bootpm to "Publication" to locate report]
  • KWAT: Eastward Bound: An Update on Migration and Trafficking of Kachhin Women on the China-Burma Border [Fr. this url, go to toolbar at the bottom to "Publcation" to locate report]
  • KWAT:Pushed to the Brink Conflict and human trafficking on the Kachin-China border. June 2013
  • Keith Jackson, Jon Jeffery and George Adamson: Setting The Record: The trafficking of women in - SETTING THE RECORD
  • Liana Sun Wyler, CRS: Trafficking in Persons: International Dimensions and Foreign Policy Issues for Congress
  • Liz Hales and Loraine Gelsthorpe, Cambridge University, THE CRIMINALISATION OF MIGRANT WOMEN
  • Malka Marcovich and NCA: Trafficking, Sexual Exploitation and Prostitution of Women and Girls in Iraq . April 210
  • Mark Latonero, Principal Investigator, Research Director: Trafficking Online: The Role of Social Networking Sites and Online Classifieds. Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Research Series: September 2011.
  • Mark Latonero, et al., The Rise of Mobile and the Diffusion of Technology-Facilitated Trafficking. November 2012
  • Minnesota Indian Woman Sexual Assault Coalition : Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota
  • Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center: Shattered Hearts: The commercial sexual exploitation of American Indian women and girls in Minnesota
  • Monica O'Connor and Grainne Healy The Link between Prostitution and Sex Trafficking (2005)
  • Nick Clark: DETECTING AND TACKLING FORCED LABOUR in EUROPE
  • Not For Sale: APPAREL INDUSTRY TRENDS FROM FARM TO FACTORY. 2012
  • OSCE A Legal Analysis of Trafficking in Persons Cases in Kosovo October 2007
  • OSCE: AN AGENDA FOR PREVENTION: TRAFFICKING FOR LABOUR EXPLOITATION. 2011
  • OSCE: COMBATING TRAFFICKING AS MODERN-DAY SLAVERY: A MATTER OF RIGHTS, FREEDOMS AND SECURITY
  • OSCE: Unprotected Work, Invisible Exploitation: Trafficking for the Purpose of Domestic Servitude. Feb. 2011
  • Ohio Trafficking in Person Study Commission: Report on the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in Ohio
  • Palaung Women's Organization -- Stolen Lives: Human Trafficking from Palaung Areas of Burma to China. June 2011
  • Parliament of Canada: Turning Outrage into Action to Address Trafficking for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation in Canada
  • Parliament of UK: The Trade in Human Beings in the UK
  • Payson Center, Univ Tulane - Fourth Annual Report:Oversight of Public and Private Initiatives to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. Sept. 2010
  • Physicians for Human Rights: NO STATUS: MIGRATION, TRAFFICKING & EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN IN THAILAND Health and HIV/AIDS Risks for Burmese and Hill Tribe Women and Girls.
  • Polaris Project: 2012 State Ratings Map
  • Prayas: Child Labor in Cotton Seed Farms
  • President’s Advisory Council on .. :BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS TO ERADICATE MODERN-DAY SLAVERY
  • RAND Report on Ohio Human Trafficking
  • Report of the Canada-United States Consultation in Preparation For World Congress III Against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents
  • Report of the Equality and Human Rights Commission: Human Trafficking in Scotland
  • Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur [to the UN Human Rights Council) on trafficking in persons, especially children and women, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, May 2010
  • Robert Moossy: Sex Trafficking: Identifying Cases and Victims
  • Roy Hall, Dept. Homeland Security: Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center: Domestic Human Trafficking - An Internal Issue - 2008
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police-Human Trafficking in Canada: A Threat Assessment . September 2010.
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Trafficking In Human Beings and Organized Crime: A Literature Review
  • SAWA, UNIFEM: Trafficking and Prostitution of Palestinian Women and Girls: Forms of Modern Day Slavery
  • SPLC Close to Slavery: Guest worker Program in the United States
  • SPLC: CLOSE TO SLAVERY Guestworker Programs in the United States
  • SPLC: Injustice on Our Plates-Immigrant Women in the US Food Industry
  • Serious Organized Crime Agency: UKHTC: A Baseline Assessment on the Nature and Scale of Human Trafficking in 2011. August 2012.
  • Shared Hope International: State Report Cards on the Legal Framework of Protection for the Nation’s Children 2011
  • Shared Hope International’s Report on Child Sexual Slavery in America
  • Sheldon X. Zhang: Looking for a Hidden Population: Trafficking of Migrant Laborers in San Diego County
  • Slavery Working Group, The Center for Social Justice: It Happens Here equipping the United Kingdom to fight modern slavery
  • Solidarity Center: The Degradation of Work: Trafficking in Persons from a Labor Perspective: The Kenyan Experience
  • Solidarity Center: The True Cost of Shrimp
  • Solidarity Center: Trafficking of Women and Children in Indonesia
  • Solidarity Center: When They Were Sold
  • TBI: Tennessee Human Sex Trafficking and Its Impact on Children and Youth 2011
  • Terry Roopnaraine: Child Trafficking in Kosovo 2002
  • The Ant-Trafficking Monitoring Group: All Change: Preventing Trafficking in the UK’
  • The Anti-Traafficking Monitoring Group-Wrong Kind of Victim? One year oon: an analysis of UK measures to protect trafficked persons. June 2010
  • The Center for Social Justice: It Happens Here: Equipping the United Kingdom to fight modern slavery March 2013
  • The Center for Women Policy Studies, Fact Sheet on State Anti-Trafficking Laws. January 2010
  • The Future Group: Falling Short of the Mark: An International Study ojn the Treatment of Human Trafficking Victims. March 2006
  • The International Center for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy: An Exploration of Promising Practices in Response to Human Trafficking in Canada
  • The International Human Rights Clinic at Willamette University College of Law: Modern Slavery in Our Midst: A Human Rights Report on Ending Human Trafficking in Oregon June 2010
  • The Protection Project ar JHU: 100 Best Practices in Combating Trafficking in Persons: The Role of Civil Society
  • The Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force: REPORT to the Texas Legislature. January 2011
  • Tsireledzani: Understanding the dimensions of human trafficking in southern Africa
  • U N Women: DomestIC Workers Count too:ImplementIng protectIons for DomestIc Workers
  • UC Berkeley Ctr for Human Rights and Free the Slaves (DC) Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States
  • UN GIFT: Different and Equal Organization Annual 2010 (protection and reintrgration of victims of abuse)
  • UN GIFT: Human Trafficking for Labour Exploitation/Forced and Bonded Labour: Identification – Prevention – Prosecution
  • UN General Assembly: Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, including the Right to Development
  • UN General Assembly: Six UN Expert Address Religious Freedom, Adequate Housing, Extreme Poverty, Violence Against Women, Human Trafficking, Human Rights Defenders
  • UN OHCHR : Fact Sheet 14: Contemprary Forms of Slavery
  • UN.GIFT and the ILO: Human Trafficking: Everybody's Business
  • UN.GIFT-Human Trafficking and Business: Good Practices to Prevent and Combat Human Trafficking 2010
  • UN.GIFT: Caring for Trafficked Persons: Guidance for Health Providers
  • UN.Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking: Progress Update 2009
  • UNDOC, anti-slavery international, Transparency International: The Role of Corruption in Trafficking in Persons
  • UNESDOC: Human Trafficking in Lesotho
  • UNGIFT:Re-thinking Trafficking Prevention - A Guide to Applying Behaviour Theory. 2011
  • UNHCR "You will be Sold Like a Doll: The trafficking of Latvian Women into the Danish Sex Industry"
  • UNICEF Reversing the Trend: Child Trafficking in East and Southeast Asia
  • UNICEF: Broken Poromises Shattered Dreams-A Profile of Child Trafficking in the LAO PDR
  • UNICEF: Human Trafficking in the Russian Federation: Inventory and Analysis of the Cureent Situation and Responses 2006
  • UNICEF: Recent Publications on Child Trafficking
  • UNODC A Global Report on Trafficking in Persons
  • UNODC: Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2012
  • UNODC: Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. 2013
  • UNODC: TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE FISHING INDUSTRY Focus on: Trafficking in Persons Smuggling of Migrants Illicit Drugs Traffic. April 2011
  • UNODC: Trafficking in Persons to Europe for Sexual Exploitation
  • UNODC: Trafficking in Persons; Analysis on Europe
  • UNODC: Transnational Organized Crime in East Asia and the Pacific A Threat Assessment
  • UNODC:COUNTRY PROFILES AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
  • US Dept. of State 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report
  • US Dept. of State 2010 Human Trafficking Report
  • US DeptLabor's 2009 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor
  • US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: Trafficking and Extortion of Burmese Migrants in Malaysia and South Thailand
  • United N ations OHCHR : Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking
  • United Nations IAP SIREN Reports on Human Trafficking in the Mekong Sub-Region
  • United Nations OHCHR: Abolishing Slavery and its Contemporary Forms--David Weissbrodt and Anti-Slavery International 2002
  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Trafficking in Persons: Global Patterns April 2006
  • Verite: Help Wanted: Hiring, Human Trafficking, and Modern Day Slavery in the Global Economy
  • Vital Voices-- Stateless and Vulnerable to Human Trafficking in Thailand. 2007
  • WHO ETHICAL AND SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INTERVIEWING TRAFFICKED WOMEN
  • White House: BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS TO ERADICATE MODERN-DAY SLAVERY
  • Women And Child Rights Project: Nowhere Else to Go: An Examination of Sexual Trafficking and Other Related Human Rights Abuses in Southern Burma. August 2009.
  • World Vision: 10 things you need to know about labour trafficking. 2011
  • X:talk project: HUMAN RIGHTS, SEX WORK AND THE CHALLENGE OF TRAFFICKING Human rights impact assessment of anti-trafficking policy in the UK

Articles/Working Papers

  • Alese Wooditch--The Efficacy of the Trafficking in Persons Report: A Review of the Evidence
  • Anqi Shen, Georgios A. Antonopoulos, Georgios Papanicolaou: Internal Child Trafficking in China
  • Anupriya Sethi: Domestic Sex Trafficking of Aboriginal Girls in Canada: Issues and Implications
  • April Rieger: Missing the Mark: Why the Trafficking Victims Protection Act Fails to Protect Sex Trafficking Victims in the United States. Harvard J of Law & Gender, Vol 30, 2007.
  • Bianca Baldo: Trafficking in Aboriginal Women in Canada. 2010
  • Chris Beyrer and Julie Stachowiak: Health Consequences of Trafficking of Women and Girls in Southeast Asia. 2003
  • Christina Arnold and Andrea M. Bertone: Addressing the Sex Trade in Thailand: Some Lessons Learned ferom NGOs
  • Christina Stringer, Glenn Simmons and Daren Coulston. Not in New Zealand's waters, surely? Labour and human rights abuses aboard foreign fishing vessels. New Zealand Asia Institute working paper series. September 2011. (2011)
  • Dan Rivers: Exposing trafficking in supply chains through investigative journalism. 2012
  • David Feingold: Think Again-Human Trafficking
  • Delva W, Richter M, De Koker P, Chersich M, Temmerman M (2011) Sex Work during the 2010 FIFA World Cup: Results from a Three-Wave Cross-Sectional Survey. PLoS ONE 6(12): e28363. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028363
  • Denise Brennan: KEY ISSUES IN THE RESETTLEMENT OF FORMERLY TRAFFICKED PERSONS IN THE UNITED STATES
  • Donna M. Bickford: “We all like to think we’ve saved somebody:” Sex Trafficking in Literature
  • Donna Sabella: The Role of the Nurse in Combating Human Trafficking
  • Gabriella Lazaridis-Trafficxking and Prostitution: The Growing Exploitation of Mgrant Women in Greece
  • Human Trafficking: A Global Problem with Local Impact
  • Human Trafficking: Sketchy Data and Policy Responses
  • Janie A. Chuang-Rescuing Trafficking from Ideological Capture: Prostitution Reform and Anti-Trafficking Law and Policy
  • Jean Allain and Kevin Bales: Slavery and Its Definition
  • Jeremy M. Wilson and Erin Dalton-Human Trafficking in the Heartland: Variation in Law Enforcement Awareness and Response
  • Johanna Kantola and Judith Squires-Discourses Surrounding Prostitution Policies in the UK 2004
  • Jonathan Todres and Michael Baumrind: Human Trafficking: A Global Problem with Local Impact
  • Jonathan Todres: Human Trafficking and the Private Sector: A Role for Corporate Counsel
  • Jonathan Todres: Law, Otherness and Human Trafficking
  • Jonathan Todres: Taking Prevention Seriously: Developing a Comprehensive Response to Child Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
  • Jonathan Todres: The Importance of Realizing 'Other Rights' to Prevent Sex Trafficking
  • Jonathan Todres: The Private Sector's Pivotal Role in Combating Human Trafficking. 2012
  • Jonathan Todres: Widening Our Lens: Incorporating Essential Perspectives in the Fight Against Human Trafficking 2011
  • Jonathan Todres:Moving Upstream: The Merits of a Public Health Law Approach to Human Trafficking . 2011
  • Kathleen Kim and Grace Chang: Reconceptualizing Approaches to Human Trafficking-New Directions and Perspectives from the Field(s)
  • Mark Lagon: Trafficking and Human Dignity
  • Michael T. Martin: Documenting Modern-Day Slavery in the Dominican Republic: An Interview with Amy Serrano
  • Neth Naro-Human Trafficking in Cambodia: Reintegration of the Cambodian Ilegal Migrants from Vietnam and Thailand. 2009
  • Niklas Jakobsson and Andreas Kotsadam-The Law and Economics of International Sex Slavery: Prostitution Laws and Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation (First draft) Jan. 2010
  • Ronald Weitzer-The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking: Ideology and Institutional ization of a Moral Crusade
  • Samuel Lee & Petra Persson: Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution
  • Seo-Young Cho et al: Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?
  • Seo-Young Cho, Axel Dreher, Eric Neumayer:The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies – Evidence from a New Index. March 2011
  • Siân Oram, Heidi Stöckl, Joanna Busza, Louise M. Howard, Cathy Zimmerman-Prevalence and Risk of Violence and the Physical, Mental, and Sexual Health Problems Associated with Human Trafficking: Systematic Review-
  • Sverre Molland--'The Perfect Business’: Human Trafficking and Lao–Thai Cross-Border Migration
  • T.K.Lpgan, Robert Walker, Gretchen Hunt,: Understanding Human Trafficking in the United States. Jan. 2009
  • Thomas M Steinfatt and Simon Bakar Allan Beesey: Measuring the Number of Women Trafficked in Cambodia - Part I
  • Thomas M. Steinfatt: Measuring the Number of Women and Children Trafficked in Cambodia-Part III
  • Virginia Mantouvalou--Modern Slavery: The UK Response
  • http://www.nexusinstitute.net/publications/pdfs/After%20trafficking_Experiences%20and%20challenges%20in%20(Re)integration%20in%20the%20GMS.pdf

Conference Papers/Discussions/Presentations/Hearings/Webinars

  • BBC--World Debate: Trafficking, Parts 1 to 5
  • Conversations With America: U.S. Efforts To Combat Human Trafficking: Luis de Baca and Wade Henderson
  • Erin Kamler | Human Trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia
  • Human Trafficking Clinic: Panel Discussion on Human Trafficking
  • Jean Allain and Kevin Bales: Slavery and Its Definition
  • Jean Allian and Kevin Bales: Slavery and Its Definition
  • Kevin Bales on WGBH's One-on-One
  • Mark Lagon: Law and Morality of Human Trafficking
  • Not for Sale Global Forum on Human Trafficking, Carlsbad, CA, October 8-9, 2009.
  • OSCE: Prevention TRafficking Human Beings for Labour Exploitation: Decent Work and Social Justice
  • Out of the Shadows: The Global Fight Against Human Trafficking
  • Second Meeting on the Working Group on Trafficking in Persons, Vienna, Austria, 27 - 29 January 2010
  • The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University (cosponsor): UN panel discussion on the role of the news media ib exposing modern slavery and human trafficking
  • UNebraska Lincoln First Annual Interdisciplinary Human Trafficking Conference
  • UNebraska Second Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking
  • UNebraska Third Annual Interdisciplinary Conference n Human Trafficking
  • UNODC et al: Welcome to the Webinar on "Trafficking Prevention and the Victims: New United Nations and Academic Perspectives"

Books

  • Ann Gallagher and Paul Holmes- Developing an Effective Criminal Justice to Human Trafficking: Lessopns from the Front Line
  • Benjamin Perrin: Invisiblw Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Traffcking 2010
  • Cherie Blair and Steve Chalke STOP THE TRAFFIK: People Shouldn’t Be Bought And Sold
  • Di Nicola, A.; Cauduro, A.; Lombardi, M.; Ruspini, P. (Eds.) Prostitution and Trafficking: Focus on Clients
  • E. Benjamin Skinner: A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face With Modern-Day Slavery
  • Edward J. Schauer and Elizabeth M. Wheaton: Sex Trafficking Into The United States: A Literature Review
  • John Bowe: Nobodies-American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
  • Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter The Slave Next Door:
  • Kevin Bales Disposable People:New Slavary in the Global Economy
  • Linda Smith and Cindy Coloma Renting Lacy: A Story of America's Prostituted Children
  • Louise Shelley: Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective
  • Romina Picolotti and Jorge Daniel Taillant Linking Human Rights and Environmetal Justice (2003)
  • Siddharth Kara Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
  • Somaly Mam The Road of Lost Innocence
  • Strategies Against Human Trafficking: The Role of the Security Sector

Country Focus

  • Bangladash
  • Barbados
  • Burma/Mynmar
  • Cambodia
  • Canada
  • China
  • Egypt
  • Estonia
  • Georgia
  • Greece
  • India
  • Japan
  • Kosovo
  • Laos
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Malaysia
  • Nepal
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Philippines
  • Qatar
  • Singapore
  • South Korea
  • Sweden
  • Thailand
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America
  • Vietnam

Films and Documentaries

  • ATEST/CNN Forum on Human Trafficking
  • All I Need
  • Angelina Jolie: Inhuman Trafficking
  • At the End of Slavery
  • Born Into Brothels
  • CNN: Common Dreams (Grammy Award-winning musician and actor Common focuses on the plight of the Restaveks [six-parts]
  • CNN: Mauritania: Slavery's last stronghold
  • Call + Response
  • Cargo, Innocence Lost
  • Cutting Edge: The Child Sex Trade
  • Dignity Overdue: Decent Work for Domestic Workers
  • Dreams Die Hard: Survivors of Slavery in America Tell Their Stories
  • EJF: SOld to the Sea-Human Trafficking in Thailand's Fishing Industry
  • ENSLAVED AND EXPLOITED: The Story of Sex Trafficking in Canada by Hope for the Sold
  • Fatal Promises
  • Fields of Mudan
  • Gimikera (Streetwalker) (for now, unable to locate DVD)
  • Holly (Trailer available)
  • ILO: Combat Trafficking With Italian Carabinieri Labour Inspectors
  • Journalist Faridoun Hemani calls on public to join movement to end human trafficking
  • KAVI [DVD has to be purchased]
  • Lara Dutta: Sold
  • Laurel Bellows (ABA 2012 in-coming president) on Human Trafficking
  • Lilya 4_EVER
  • Lucy Liu: Traffic
  • Nepali slaves in the Middle East
  • PBS NEWSHOUR Fighting to Unravel India's Widespread Child Labor Abuses
  • PBS: Opium Brides
  • PBS:Fighting to Unravel India's Widespread Child Labor Abuses
  • Playground
  • Promise Land
  • Radio Free Asia: Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery
  • Responding to Victims of Human Trafficking (2008) / Documentary
  • SOLD [Human Trafficking in the United States]
  • SOLD: MTV Exit Special
  • Sacrifice: The Story of Child Prostitutes from Burma [Trailer available]
  • Salad slaves: Who really provides our vegetables
  • Slavery: A Global Investigation from: Brian Woods
  • Svetlana's Journey
  • The Dark Side of Chocolate by Miki Mistrati & U. Roberto Romano
  • The Day My God Died
  • The Sari Soldiers (Trailer)
  • The Story of Human Rights, Director, Taron Lexton
  • Trading Women
  • Two Little Girls
  • Under Cover in Pattaya
  • Underage
  • Untold Stories: Innocence for Sale
  • Very Young Girls
  • Women on the Frontline: Nepal
  • Working Lives - Human Traffic: Kenya Part 1
  • Working Lives - Human Traffic: Kenya Part 2

Internet Tools to Research Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery on the WWW

  • Crowdeye
  • Google Blogs
  • Google Books
  • Google Images
  • Google Maps
  • Google News
  • Google Products
  • Google Scholar
  • Google Videos
  • Google Web Sites
  • OneRiot
  • Twitter Search

UN and International Organizations

  • International Labor Organization
  • International Organization for Migration
  • Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS
  • The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
  • UN Children's Fund
  • UN Development Fund for Women
  • UN Development Programme
  • UN Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization Bangkok: Trafficking and HIV/AIDS Project
  • UN Human Rights Council
  • UN Institute for Training and Research
  • UN WomenWatch
  • UN.Global Initiative to Fight Trafficking
  • United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking
  • UNODC Blue Hear Campaign Against Human Trafficking
  • World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

Intergovernmental Organizations

  • The Blue Blindfold
  • EU action against trafficking in human beings
  • Asia Regional Trafficking in Persons Project
  • Council of the Baltic Sea States
  • African Union
  • Council of Europe
  • Organizsation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

Governmental Organizations

  • Obs Trafico Seres Humanos/The Observatory on Trafficking in Human Beings
  • US Aid for International Develoment
  • US Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families
  • US Federal Bureau of Investigation: Innocence Lost National Initiative
  • US Department of Justice: Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

Private Organizations

  • Abolish Slavery Coalition
  • AFESIP Cambodia Acting for Women in Distressing Situations
  • American Anti-Slavery Group
  • Amnesty International
  • Anti-Slavery
  • APNE AAP Women Worldwide
  • Asia Foundation
  • Ban-Ying
  • Beyond Borders
  • Blue BlindFold
  • Caritas International
  • Child Wise-ECPAT in Australia
  • Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
  • Doctors at War Against Trafficking Worldwide
  • ECPAT International
  • End Human Trafficking - Change.org
  • END SLAVERY NOW
  • Europe Institute for Social Work Berlin
  • Free the Slaves
  • Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
  • Global Centurion
  • Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking
  • Global Rights, Initiative Against Trafficking
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Human Trafficking & Modern-Day Slavery
  • Humanity United
  • HumanTrafficking.Org
  • iAbolish Anerican Anti-Slavery Group
  • International Justice Mission
  • International Rescue Committee
  • jnseen (UK)
  • La Strada International European Networj Against Trafficking in Human Beings
  • Made by Survivors-The Emancipation Network
  • Not For Sale
  • People Against Human Trafficking
  • SAIS, Johns Hopkins University: The Protection Project
  • Salvation Army Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking
  • SharedHope International
  • Somaly Mam Foundation
  • SOS Esclaves Mauritania
  • Stop Demand
  • Stop the Traffik
  • Terres des Hommes International Federation
  • The Human Trafficking Project
  • The Polaris Project
  • The Project to End Human Trafficking
  • Truckers Against Human Trafficking
  • Vital Voices
  • World Vision