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La Strada International: Feedback on Global Initiave (UN.GIFT)

Document number
1229
Date
2007
Title
La Strada International: Feedback on Global Initiave (UN.GIFT)
Author/publisher
La Strada International
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Document type(s)
LSI publication,
Keywords
UN.GIFT, Root causes, Demand, GAATW, Anti Slavery International, Save the Children, Amnesty International
Summary
In March 2007, the United Nations has launched a Global Initiative to Fight Trafficking (UN.GIFT), designed to motivate and assist governments and civil society. It aims "to understand factors of vulnerability to human trafficking; to reduce its impact and its human cost; to take action to prevent and stop it and to help states implement the anti-trafficking Protocol". At the organisational level, the goal is to harness and synergise current anti-trafficking initiatives. In its preparatory phase, the UNODC consults with various stakeholders in different regions and NGOs have been invited to react to the plans, among which to define the goals for UN.GIFT. La Strada International provided feedback and formulated goals for the Global Initiative. LSI did not to ask for more instruments and action plans as these already exist and should have been implemented and because LSI lobbies permanently for the implementation of existing plans. Rather, LSI used this opportunity to stir up the international debate on how to address trafficking in human beings.
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