Publications

ICAT Issue Brief 06, 07/2018

• How does trafficking in children differ from trafficking in adults?
• Data snapshot: what is the scale of trafficking in children?
• Child-specific drivers and challenges
• What are ICAT’s recommendations?

This report provides an overview of ICAT’s accomplishments since it was created a decade ago. It was produced at the occasion of the ICAT Principal level meeting which took place in London on 2 May 2018, to reflect on the key achievements of ICAT to date.

This paper provides an up-to-date overview of the mandates of ICAT organizations, reflecting evolutions in their mandates, as well as in the international response to trafficking in persons. These organizations collectively represent the relevant United Nations agencies and other international organizations involved in preventing and combating trafficking in persons. It was prepared as a background document for the ICAT Principal Level Meeting which took place in London on 2 May 2018.

ICAT Issue Brief 05, 04/2018

The Issue Brief looks at the context specifically related to the three Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets related to trafficking in persons, Targets 5.2, 8.7, and 16.2. It analyzes how these are interlinked, how they are connected with other SDGs addressing poverty, rule of law, migration, labour issues and education. Finally, the Issue Brief draws attention to the efforts that are already ongoing and the areas that Member States may support to accomplish these goals.

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Following the release of the zero draft of the Global Compact for Migration on 5 February 2018, this document provides a number of suggestions for consideration by Member States in their discussions going forward.

ICAT Issue Brief 04, 09/2017

• Root cause and risk factors: Why trafficking disproportionally affects women and girls
• Considerations regarding male victims
• Recommendations: A gendered approach to prevention and response to trafficking

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ICAT Issue Brief 03, 09/2017

Persons who have been trafficked across an international border, in transit or at destination, may be in need of international protection as refugees on the basis of this experience. Ensuring protection against their refoulement and access to procedures which can determine their refugee status is therefore critical. Despite this, victims of trafficking continue to face barriers in receiving the assistance and protection they need, not only as victims of trafficking, but also as potential refugees. This issue brief clarifies the relationship between refugee status and trafficking in persons across a number of situations and provides recommendations on what States can do to ensure that victims of trafficking have access to international protection as refugees where they need it.

ICAT Issue Brief 02, 06/2017

• What makes crisis-affected communities and individuals vulnerable to trafficking in persons?
• How is the humanitarian community responding to trafficking in persons?
• What are the key recommendations?

This document builds on a discussion paper developed by the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons on the current state of evaluation practice in the field of trafficking in persons. It provides an accessible and easily employable set of tools that practitioners can use to put sectoral learning to work and improve their counter-trafficking programmes. These tools are intended to help strengthen pro­gramme design, inform planning for evalua­tion, and engender formative and summative learning. It is hoped that the wide use of such tools will lead to more effective programmes that, together with their evaluation, would contrib­ute to further building the evidence base of “what works” to respond effectively to trafficking in persons.

Part I provides a general overview of counter- trafficking programming design issues, and highlights the value of (a) drawing on behaviour change and good practice and (b) considering the potential for interventions to, negatively, displace rather than reduce trafficking – an important issue for prevention programmes and prosecutorial responses. It provides an overall start­ing point for the design of counter-trafficking interventions, outlining a series of questions to help map the specifics of individual trafficking patterns and identify the most appropriate set of responses.

Part II elaborates on seven types of counter- trafficking activities. Each section contains (a) a brief discussion of lessons learned; (b) a set of questions aimed at assisting in programme design; and (c) a non-exclusive set of possible indicators for measuring progress in responding to trafficking. These sections are:

1. Raising awareness of trafficking risks and responses
2. Improving livelihoods as an alternative to risky migration
3. Strengthening the legal framework on trafficking in persons
4. Building criminal justice capacity to respond to trafficking in persons
5. Promptly and accurately identifying and referring trafficked persons
6. Providing support and durable solutions for trafficked persons
7. Developing national plans of action against trafficking in persons

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