Trafficking
in Women and Children
The trafficking of human persons is a crime
and outrage against the dignity of human persons and cries for a response
nationally and globally. Many nations have declared trafficking a
crime and are seeking to comply with the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime which defines trafficking as:
| 'Trafficking
in persons' shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer,
harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or
use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of
fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position
of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments
or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control
over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation
shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution
of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour
or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude
or the removal of organs. |
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(Article
3, UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking
in Persons, especially Women and Children, supplementing the
United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized
Crime). |
Dominicans at the United Nations/New York advocate
against trafficking through the Working Group on Girls
as well as through the NGO Committee on Migration.
NGO Working Group on Girls
Mission
The Working Group on Girls and its International Network
for Girls are dedicated to promoting the rights of girls in all
areas of their lives, advancing the rights and status of girls and
assisting them to develop their full potential as women.
Issues:
• Girls’ education
• Gender based violence
• The Girl child and Poverty and Indigenous concerns
• Trafficking
Activities:
• Ensure that national governments implement through policy
statements, program development and resource allocation the commitments
to girls’ rights made through international agreements.
• Advocate for the ongoing education and development of girls’
rights in the work of the United Nations systems and structures
and in international agreements
• Promote the active participation of girls as agents of change
in their own lives, families, communities and societies.
NGO Commmittee on Migration (See
link here)
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Resources:
Human Rights Watch
The
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women (CEDAW)
Coalition Against Trafficking
Dominican
Call to Justice: Traffficking
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