Established by the International Union of Superiors General in 2009, Talitha Kum has reached thousands of people through anti-trafficking awareness campaigns, education programs, international conferences, training manuals, vocational training, and hands-on services. Through ZCDA, Machingura has provided reintegration and counseling services to more than 150 Zimbabwean survivors whom traffickers fraudulently recruited to work in Kuwait in 2017, and designed livelihood programs aimed at providing them with the skills and abilities critical for supporting themselves and their families.The Department of State joins the Trump Administration, community leaders, global allies, and the survivors in our shared fight to end human trafficking. Below are some highlights:In 2017, the Responsible Business Alliance or RBA (formerly the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition) launched a multi-industry, multi-stakeholder initiative to help companies address the root causes of forced labor. At their worst, labor recruiters exploit the vulnerability inherent among those migrating for work, often engaging in fraudulent and misleading recruitment practices that can lead to human trafficking.https://www.osce.org/secretariat/371771?download=trueFor the past decade, Agnes De Coll has dedicated her life to the fight against human trafficking. For example, recruiters—most often helping men from India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh to obtain EU residency benefits, work, and citizenship rights—convince women from the Baltics, Eastern Europe, Portugal, or France with promises of money or a lucrative job to move to the UK, Ireland, or Germany and marry men they have never met. Throughout her career, her work has inspired generations of anti-trafficking advocates within the Catholic faith. When she arrived in the United States, she called the family she was supposed to work for and they gave her another number to call, telling her never to call them again. The latter are also often referred to as “dirty, dangerous, and difficult” and rely on low-skilled and vulnerable local labor forces.
Similarly, the TIP Report’s data on prosecutions, convictions, and victim identification are significantly higher now than they were ten years ago, when the TIP Report first began to note an upward global trend. These studies further show that exploitative sham marriage schemes tend to be carried out by organized crime syndicates also engaged in other forms of exploitation. It is clear that government efforts stemming from the adoption of the Palermo Protocol are working.Countries in the 2019 TIP Report that are not States Parties to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking In Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime(E) reporting and analysis on the emergence or shifting of global patterns in human trafficking, including data on the number of victims trafficked to, through, or from major source and destination countries, disaggregated by nationality, gender, and age, to the extent possible;When she was 14 years old, Lin went to Dubai with her uncle after he convinced Lin’s parents to let her work in a massage parlor. Its primary goal is to identify and support ethical labor recruiters through a variety of tools: establishing a benchmark for ethical recruiting—“the IRIS Standard,” establishing a voluntary certification process for recruiters, creating a list of certified recruiters to help employers and workers make informed decisions, and establishing a monitoring and compliance mechanism to ensure standards are lasting. For the purpose of the CSPA, and generally consistent with the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, the term “child soldier” means:Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Armed Conflict After reasonable requests from the Department of State for data regarding investigations, prosecutions, convictions, and sentences, a government which does not provide such data, consistent with a demonstrably increasing capacity of such government to obtain such data, shall be presumed not to have vigorously investigated, prosecuted, convicted or sentenced such acts.-C182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)U.S. diplomatic posts and domestic agencies reported on the trafficking situation and governmental action to fight trafficking based on thorough research that included meetings with a wide variety of government officials, local and international NGO representatives, officials of international organizations, journalists, academics, and survivors. Instead, most organizations maintain case files that rely on basic databases, spreadsheets, and paper files, thus the form, quality, and type of data stored can vary widely. Equally important is identifying barriers that could potentially prevent people, especially victims, from calling a hotline. In effect, they are turning a blind eye to those traffickers who exploit their own citizens, neglecting to apply their own domestic laws regarding human trafficking, and sometimes even allowing harmful cultural norms and practices to thrive.Through a concerted civic education campaign, Laabidi has shed light on a previously unknown crime within Tunisian society, greatly increasing public understanding about human trafficking.
Similarly, the TIP Report’s data on prosecutions, convictions, and victim identification are significantly higher now than they were ten years ago, when the TIP Report first began to note an upward global trend. These studies further show that exploitative sham marriage schemes tend to be carried out by organized crime syndicates also engaged in other forms of exploitation. It is clear that government efforts stemming from the adoption of the Palermo Protocol are working.Countries in the 2019 TIP Report that are not States Parties to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking In Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime(E) reporting and analysis on the emergence or shifting of global patterns in human trafficking, including data on the number of victims trafficked to, through, or from major source and destination countries, disaggregated by nationality, gender, and age, to the extent possible;When she was 14 years old, Lin went to Dubai with her uncle after he convinced Lin’s parents to let her work in a massage parlor. Its primary goal is to identify and support ethical labor recruiters through a variety of tools: establishing a benchmark for ethical recruiting—“the IRIS Standard,” establishing a voluntary certification process for recruiters, creating a list of certified recruiters to help employers and workers make informed decisions, and establishing a monitoring and compliance mechanism to ensure standards are lasting. For the purpose of the CSPA, and generally consistent with the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, the term “child soldier” means:Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Armed Conflict After reasonable requests from the Department of State for data regarding investigations, prosecutions, convictions, and sentences, a government which does not provide such data, consistent with a demonstrably increasing capacity of such government to obtain such data, shall be presumed not to have vigorously investigated, prosecuted, convicted or sentenced such acts.-C182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)U.S. diplomatic posts and domestic agencies reported on the trafficking situation and governmental action to fight trafficking based on thorough research that included meetings with a wide variety of government officials, local and international NGO representatives, officials of international organizations, journalists, academics, and survivors. Instead, most organizations maintain case files that rely on basic databases, spreadsheets, and paper files, thus the form, quality, and type of data stored can vary widely. Equally important is identifying barriers that could potentially prevent people, especially victims, from calling a hotline. In effect, they are turning a blind eye to those traffickers who exploit their own citizens, neglecting to apply their own domestic laws regarding human trafficking, and sometimes even allowing harmful cultural norms and practices to thrive.Through a concerted civic education campaign, Laabidi has shed light on a previously unknown crime within Tunisian society, greatly increasing public understanding about human trafficking.