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How to prevent human trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households and protect private domestic workers

Document number
3111
Date
2014
Title
How to prevent human trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households and protect private domestic workers
Author/publisher
OSCE
Availability
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Document type(s)
Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
human trafficking, exploitation, abuse, domestic work, diplomat households
Summary
This Handbook for Protocol Officers serves to raise awareness and inform the relevant authorities about how to prevent trafficking in human beings for domestic servitude in diplomatic households, how to detect abuses and how to react to exploitative situations while protecting the rights of the domestic worker. This handbook will increase knowledge about strategies and policies to discourage non-compliance in the employment of private domestic workers in diplomatic households. It will also provide examples of national practices which have proven effective towards those ends.