Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons

Created by the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC)'s Global Programme Against Trafficking in Persons, this toolkit seeks to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and information among policymakers, law enforcers, judges, prosecutors, victim service providers, and members of civil society who are working at different levels towards the following objectives:

• To prevent and combat trafficking
• To protect and assist its victims
• To promote international cooperation

The Toolkit provides guidance in the form of legislative explanation, expert discussion of issues, extracts of principles, guidelines, recommendations, directives, checklists, forms, etc. The Toolkit also showcases promising practices as illustrated by anti-trafficking interventions from around the world. Finally, the Toolkit recommends resources such as training materials, websites, legislative guides, online conventions, analysis, and published reports.

In its entirety, the Toolkit provides an overview of the immense and multifaceted task of combating trafficking in persons. In its stand-alone chapters, the Toolkit provides guidance on specific aspects of the trafficking response. These chapters are dedicated to thematic areas of:

1. International Legal Framework
2. Problem Assessment and Strategy Development
3. Legislative Framework
4. International Criminal Justice Cooperation
5. Law Enforcement and Prosecution
6. Victim Identification
7. Immigration Status of Victims and Their Return and Repatriation
8. Victim Protection and Assistance
9. Prevention of Trafficking in Persons
10. Monitoring and Evaluation

Each chapter has been structured so that it can be consulted independently of the others; users who have an interest in a particular aspect of trafficking can refer only to the chapters - or the tools - which are of interest to them. Cross-references have been provided throughout the Toolkit to direct users to other tools they may find relevant. Where possible, websites are indicated where users can either consult the complete text of a document referred to, or find further information on a given topic. Users who do not have access to the internet are encouraged to contact either UNODC or the organisation referenced to arrange to receive a printed copy of the relevant resource.

Annex 1 of the Toolkit includes a consolidated overview of the 123 tools provided in the Toolkit. Annex 2 provides the complete Trafficking in Persons Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, cross-references against tools which are relevant to each article therein. Finally, UNODC directs readers to a feedback form available in Annex 3, which is intended to assist the organisation "in strengthening the next edition of this Toolkit, in the same spirit of cooperation which has guided the process of designing and compiling this resource."