Publications
POPPY carries out extensive research and produces influential publications. Its reports provide crucial evidence of the nature and scale of prostitution and trafficking.
Many of the reports below include statistics and real-life case studies that are drawn directly from POPPY’s experience of supporting women who work as prostitutes or who have been trafficked.
POPPY research reports, articles and consultation responses
POPPY Project Outreach Service - a review of work January-September 2007
Streets Apart: Outdoor Prostitution in London - June 2007
POPPY’s response to the consultation on proposals for a UK Action Plan on Tackling Human Trafficking – April 2006
Hope Betrayed: An Analysis of Women Victims of Trafficking and their Claims for Asylum– March 2006
No Escape? An Investigation into London's Service Provision for Women Involved in the Commercial Sex Industry– March 2006
POPPY’s response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ report into the human rights of trafficked people – May 2006
POPPY’s response to the Home Office consultation on prostitution Paying the Price– December 2004
Consultation Paper on Sexual Offences Act 2003 – July 2004
Sex in the City: Mapping Commercial Sex Across London– August 2004
When Women are Trafficked: Quantifying the gendered experience of trafficking in the UK– April 2004
Key resources on human trafficking:
UK Action Plan on Tackling Human Trafficking (2007) – available at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/human-traffick-action-plan
Joint Committee on Human Rights – Twenty Sixth Report – Human Trafficking (2006) – available at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200506/jtselect/jtrights/245/24502.htm
Presentation on the health consequences among women who have been trafficked and their implications for services and policy, London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine, Zimmerman, C (2006)
Trafficking Health-nov-2006.ppt
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (2005) – available at: http://www.coe.int/T/E/human_rights/trafficking/PDF_Conv_197_Trafficking_E.pdf
The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (also known as ‘The Palermo Protocol’) supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (adopted in 2000 and entered into force on 25 December 2003) – available at: http://www.uncjin.org/Documents/Conventions/dcatoc/final_documents_2/convention_%20traff_eng.pdf
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime – Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons (2006) – available at:
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/Trafficking_toolkit_Oct06.pdf
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children – website:
http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/trafficking/
