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Human Rights and Trafficking in Women and Young People in Europe. International Legal Pocket Compilation

Document number
1648
Date
2007
Title
Human Rights and Trafficking in Women and Young People in Europe. International Legal Pocket Compilation
Author/publisher
Paola Degani, Francesca Vietti
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Daphne Programme II, Project Human Rights and Trafficking in Women and Young People. An educational toolkit for teachers and students, University of Padua, Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples, La Strada Foundation against Trafficking in Persons and Slavery, Poland, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Association Human Rights - Human Development Project
Summary
The aim of this International Legal Pocket Compilation is to provide teachers witha basic yet complete educational Toolkit containing the main international andregional laws on the dramatic theme of trafficking in human beings and itsmanifold implications under the human rights perspective, with particularreference to women and young people’s condition involved in sexualexploitation.All the acts listed in this Compilation include basic reference elements and abrief introductory note that should help teachers transmit awareness to studentsand diffuse knowledge on human rights, which in its very nature is transversal tosingle disciplines.In identifying the material and in its thematic development the model adoptedwas that of the United Nations classification, especially from the Office of theUnited Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights.The rest of the International Legal Pocket Compilation is organized in thematiccategories which trace both binding norms (conventions, treaties, protocols…),and recommendations (declarations, resolutions, principles, guidelines, etc.)that, depending on the category, can prove pertinent.The section on international instruments is followed by a section on Europeanregulations.
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