Recent Publications on Child Trafficking

This Reference Guide is meant to serve as an implementation book for the UNICEF Guidelines on the Protection of the Rights of Child Victims of Trafficking as it gives information about the steps and procedures that constitute ‘good practice’ in the protection and assistance of child victims of trafficking. As such, the Guide is a practical tool for policy makers and practitioners from government, non-governmental and international organizations responsible for protecting and assisting child victims of trafficking across Europe.

These guidelines are based on international human rights instruments and describe standards for the protection of trafficked children from their identification through to their recovery and integration. The aim of these guidelines is to assist governments and State actors, international organizations and NGOs or other service providers as a platform for developing policies and practices, at the national, bilateral and international levels. (October 2006) more  >

This Report outlines some key findings and recommendations from an assessment of the efforts to prevent child trafficking in South Eastern Europe. Its main purpose is to increase understanding of the work on prevention of child trafficking, by looking at the effectiveness of different approaches and their impacts. The assessment covered Albania, Republic of Moldova, Romania and the UN Administered Province of Kosovo. (June 2006)

An evaluation of legislation, policy responses and the institutional framework to prevent trafficking in human beings in Romania, aiming to identify progress made, recommendations for necessary changes, and to outline the social perception of migration and trafficking of human beings in Romania.

This report presents an overview of the current situation and responses to trafficking in human beings in the Russian Federation up to December 2005.

This report on the protection of children from commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking examines law and policy on child trafficking in South Asia. Other 'issues' addressed within the report include: local governance, local action and child protection; the efficacy of cross border interventions in the prevention of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation; and, migration, mobility and challenges to child protection.

The report examines the efforts of governments, international and local NGOs to prevent trafficking, raise awareness and assist victims. It finds that anti-trafficking measures are still dominated by repressive measures to prevent migration, prostitution and organised crime.

A handbook for social workers, police and other professionals working with children victims of abuse. (Available in English, Albanian and Serbo-Croat)

A study on protection and assistance provided to children victims of trafficking. The study was conducted to assess to what extent the recommendations made in the ‘UNICEF Guidelines for Protection of the Rights of Child Victims of Trafficking in South Eastern Europe’ are being implemented in Kosovo. (Available in English and Albanian)

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre activity on child trafficking started in 1998 with research on child trafficking in Western and Central Africa, developed with the UNICEF Western and Central Africa Regional Office. This study focuses on a region that is badly affected by child trafficking and analyses the phenomenon in eight countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Mali, Nigeria and Togo. The study analyzed policy responses and programming interventions with an eye to: raise awareness of the phenomenon and its transnational nature; enhance national capacity to prevent and address child trafficking; inform effective policy responses and regional co-operation; enhance inter-agency dialogue and co-operation.

Every day, children are bought, sold and transported away from their homes. The trafficking of human beings is a multibillion-dollar business that appears to be growing. This handbook addresses some of the key measures that parliamentarians can take to end child trafficking. It outlines specific steps -- including laws, policies and advocacy efforts -- which parliamentarians around the world are taking to make children safer from this scourge. more  >