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Demand for Forced Labour and Sexual Exploitation - How and Why it fuels Human Trafficking. Background Paper

Document number
1447
Date
2008
Title
Demand for Forced Labour and Sexual Exploitation - How and Why it fuels Human Trafficking. Background Paper
Author/publisher
Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations (UN)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
Keywords
UN GIFT, United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, The Vienna Forum to fight Human Trafficking, Prostitution, Abolitionism, Prohibitionism, Sex work, Sexual exploitation, Clients, Demand, Sexual exploitation, Labour exploitation, Domestic labour,
Summary
This background paper provides background information on the issues of theILO’s primary concern, with a particular focus on trafficking for forced labourexploitation, and raises questions for further discussion. It begins by discussing theconcept of forced labour and assessing the current state of knowledge. This is followedby a discussion of demand factors, supply chain management issues and recruitmentsystems. A final section discusses concrete measures that can now be taken to preventand identify forced labour, particularly by employers and workers in cooperation withother national and international partners.
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