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If your government supported the REVIEW of UNTOC including engagement of civil society and publication of reports they MUST speak up and continue to argue their case against strong opposition from governments, primarily Russia. YOUR engagement with your government to remind them how important it is that an INCLUSIVE and EFFECTIVE review mechanism to UNTOC is developed is critical at this stage!

 

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If you want to know what is really being done to stop human trafficking – and if it is working – you need to ask the people who know: the survivors
A victim-centered monitoring mechanism to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) and its protocols, including the Human Trafficking Protocol, is urgently required. This will help assess states' implementation of these standards, strengthening anti-trafficking efforts, bringing an end to trafficking and better protecting the rights of trafficked and migrant persons.
The Human Trafficking Protocol, which provides the international definition of trafficking in persons, was adopted in 2000. Since then, millions of dollars have been spent and countless efforts have been made to end trafficking. However, people continue to be trafficked worldwide and gross human rights violations persist, bringing into question the effectiveness of this global effort.
Increasingly, human rights defenders and activists worldwide are calling attention to anti-trafficking measures are not only not effective, they are leading to further human rights violations. We need to assess what is actually being done by governments to prevent trafficking and to protect the rights of those that have been trafficked. Who is benefiting? Is it working for the people who are trafficked? Are the rights of people migrating, or returning to their home countries, better protected by anti-trafficking policies? Or are the anti-trafficking initiatives causing further harm?
States are currently negotiating a review mechanism for the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) and its protocols, including the Human Trafficking Protocol. This is the opportunity to examine how states’ are implementing the Human Trafficking Protocol – to evaluate states’ efforts to combat trafficking: how anti-trafficking measures are being implemented, how money is being spent, and what consequences, intended and unintended, these initiatives are having, what lessons they are learning.
Without such a mechanism, the promise of the UNTOC and its protocols cannot be realised. But without the participation of and input from survivors and the civil society organisations who work with them, the review mechanism will lack credibility and authority.

If you want to know what is really being done to stop human trafficking – and if it is working – you need to ask the people who know: the survivors


A victim-centered monitoring mechanism to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) and its protocols, including the Human Trafficking Protocol, is urgently required. This will help assess states' implementation of these standards, strengthening anti-trafficking efforts, bringing an end to trafficking and better protecting the rights of trafficked and migrant persons.

 
The Human Trafficking Protocol, which provides the international definition of trafficking in persons, was adopted in 2000. Since then, millions of dollars have been spent and countless efforts have been made to end trafficking. However, people continue to be trafficked worldwide and gross human rights violations persist, bringing into question the effectiveness of this global effort.
 

Increasingly, human rights defenders and activists worldwide are calling attention to anti-trafficking measures are not only not effective, they are leading to further human rights violations. We need to assess what is actually being done by governments to prevent trafficking and to protect the rights of those that have been trafficked. Who is benefiting? Is it working for the people who are trafficked? Are the rights of people migrating, or returning to their home countries, better protected by anti-trafficking policies? Or are the anti-trafficking initiatives causing further harm? 

 

States are currently negotiating a review mechanism for the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) and its protocols, including the Human Trafficking Protocol. This is the opportunity to examine how states’ are implementing the Human Trafficking Protocol – to evaluate states’ efforts to combat trafficking: how anti-trafficking measures are being implemented, how money is being spent, and what consequences, intended and unintended, these initiatives are having, what lessons they are learning.

 

Without such a mechanism, the promise of the UNTOC and its protocols cannot be realised. But without the participation of and input from survivors and the civil society organisations who work with them, the review mechanism will lack credibility and authority.