Child Trafficking Research Workshop
“Presenting preliminary results of the research on Child trafficking in Europe”

3 and 4 March 2005
Florence, Italy

Background
The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre is the independent research arm of the United Nations dedicated to the protection of children and the promotion of child rights. Having worked on the issue of child trafficking for a number of years, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre enjoys close collaboration with UNICEF Regional and Country Offices, UN agencies and other partners.
This research will allow UNICEF to gather pan-European information about patterns of trafficking of children (flows, causes, forms of exploitation) , about international and national legal framework,, and about policies and practices adopted by governments to prevent trafficking, respond to victims, and to follow up with various forms of repatriation and rehabilitation. This research pays particular attention to the difficulty in gathering data, and focuses on developing research methodologies for gathering specific and reliable information on the trafficking of children

Objectives
The workshop is intended for a limited number of researchers and practitioners with responsibility for promoting and managing research on child trafficking. The objectives of the workshop will be to