Factsheets and resources
You can use this section to find out facts and figures about the issues surrounding violence against women – including trafficking and prostitution.
Factsheets
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
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/