Progress Report #3

Progress Report #3

My focus for the action campaign against human trafficking is legal cases and issues directly related to the law. I have found that human trafficking cases rarely go to trial and even when they do, the traffickers are rarely convicted. The difficulty within prosecuting a human trafficker is that their industry is clandestine, they move frequently, and stay out of the public sphere. Human trafficking victims often appear to be prostitutes and have typically been drugged, abused, and raped so they are unlikely to come forward as witnesses. The traffickers create fear in order to ensure that none of the trafficking victims are able to escape and if they do escape, that they won't I.D. them.

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/prosecution.html

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/faqs.html

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/faqs.html#Is_there_a_legal_instrument_to_tackle_human_trafficking

http://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Executive_summary_english.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/nyregion/manhattan-prosecutors-focus-on-pimps-instead-of-prostitutes.html?_r=0