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Activities

The Office aims to assist participating States in strengthening the protection of trafficked persons and vulnerable groups and preventing trafficking by focusing on the following areas:

National Referral Mechanisms

The ODIHR supports the establishment of multi-agency anti-trafficking structures responsible for the development of rights-centred policy and practice in anti-trafficking through the promotion of National Referral Mechanisms.
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Identification of trafficked persons

Protection starts with the adequate identification and assistance of trafficked victims.
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Access to remedies and rights

The ODIHR carries out a number of activities to protect the rights of trafficked persons and to help them claim those rights.
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Astrid Ganterer (left) of the ODIHR's anti-trafficking programme speaks with Antonella Inverno of Save the Children Italy during a meeting on boys in the sex industry, Vienna, 19 October 2007. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)

Astrid Ganterer (left) of the ODIHR's anti-trafficking programme speaks with Antonella Inverno of Save the Children Italy during a meeting on boys in the sex industry, Vienna, 19 October 2007. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)

Documents

Discussion paper on standards and new developments in labour trafficking

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July issue of Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) newsletter

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This issue contains an article by ODIHR on compensation to victims of trafficking.

Criminal Justice and the Trafficking Victim

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Final report of the anti-trafficking side event to the Human Dimension Seminar on Upholding the Rule of Law and Due Process in Criminal Justice Systems, Warsaw, 10 May 2006.

Criminal Justice and the trafficking victim

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Background paper.

Is the return of trafficked victims always safe?

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Background paper.

Exploitation in Western Europe: Trafficking or fanning the flames?

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Background paper.