An Introduction to Human Trafficking: Vulnerability, Impact and Action

An Introduction to Human Trafficking: Vulnerability, Impact and Action

BACKGROUND PAPER

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME Vienna

An Introduction to Human Trafficking: Vulnerability, Impact and Action

UNITED NATIONS New York, 2008

The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

Acknowledgements

This document was prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The effort was led by Kristiina Kangaspunta of the UNODC Anti-Human Trafficking Unit, with the key papers researched and drafted by Mich?le Clark, Judith Dixon and Mike Dottridge. Valuable contributions were also made by Martin Fowke, Silke Albert, Riikka Puttonen, Troels Vester, Jonathan Eischen and Kerstin Uebel. The report was prepared under the overall leadership and supervision of Doris Buddenberg. For further information regarding the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT), please go to its website at . The UNODC Anti-Human Trafficking Unit can be contacted at ahtu@, telephone (+43-1) 26060-5687. For further information regarding UNODC's work to combat trafficking in persons and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, please go to .

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