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The Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons

ICAT is a policy forum mandated by the UN General Assembly to improve coordination among UN agencies and other relevant international organizations to facilitate a holistic and comprehensive approach to preventing and combating trafficking in persons, including protection and support for victims of trafficking.

ICAT functions are: To provide a platform for exchange of information, experiences and good practices on anti-trafficking activities; to support the activities of the UN and other international organizations with the aim of ensuring a full and comprehensive implementation of all international instruments and standards of relevance for the prevention and combating of trafficking in persons and protection of and support for victims of trafficking; to work towards a comprehensive, coordinated and holistic approach to human trafficking, which is gender and age-sensitive and grounded in a human rights based-approach; and to promote effective and efficient use of existing resources, using, to the extent possible, mechanisms already in place at the regional and national level.

Publications

ICAT Calls for Accelerated Action by 2025 to Prevent and End Child Trafficking (Edited version)

Child trafficking is one of the worst forms of violence against children, and a serious global concern that requires urgent response. On 8 November 2023, the Principals of Inter-Agency Coordination…

Joint Statement of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT) on the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, 2023

On the occasion of the World Day against Trafficking in Persons 2023, the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT) calls on all States and other duty bearers to act…

Chairs' Annual Report 2022

This Annual Report presents the highlights of the work undertaken by the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT) under the co-chairpersonship of the United Nations…