Human Trafficking / Migration
Trafficking in Persons: A Human Rights-Based Approach
Apurba Khatiwada, April 2006.
This paper documents a study into the conceptual framework of trafficking and how rights-based approaches may be used in combating the issue. It also aims to analyze national legal mechanisms in respect to the rights based approach to trafficking.
A Human Rights-Based Approach to Refugee Assistance
International Rescue Committee, Michael Posner and Deirdre Clancy.
As brutal civil conflict becomes the hallmark of war today, and governments continue to derogate their responsibilities to protect refugees, adhering to the humanitarian aid criterion of ‘impartial and non-political’ becomes more and more difficult. Engagement with the daily human rights implications of delivering aid is now a vital task for humanitarian organizations grappling to redefine their responsibilities in an increasingly complex and chaotic world.This article explores the concerns and challenges for a HRBA to assisting refugees for humanitarian organisations and holding duty bearers accountable for their actions and responsibilities.
Human Rights or Wrongs? The struggle for a rights-based response to trafficking in human beings
Ann D. Jordan, Gender Trafficking and Slavery, Oxfam Focus On Gender, Ed. by Rachel Masika, 2002.
This article serves as an introduction for governments and NGOs to the issues associated with human trafficking. It is hoped that the expertise and experiences of both these groups can be combined to draft and implement new trafficking laws and policies. The article focuses on three main areas that result in weak trafficking laws; weaknesses of domestic legal responses, lost opportunities for an international legal framework, and opportunities and challenges for rights- protective domestic legislative responses. The refusal, and in some cases lack of capacity, of governments to support non-citizens that reside within national boundaries remains an area of conflict between governments and NGOs. The division of responsibility between these two duty bearers will need to be defined further in the future.