Migrants who use smuggling networks to flee their home countries are often subjected to extreme violence, torture, rape, and kidnapping during transit. Despite the seriousness of these crimes, few…
On the 18th and 19th of October 2012, Germany presented the sixth Periodic Report on Civil and Political Rights to the United Nations in Geneva. Now the Human Rights Committee published his…
On the 18th and 19th of October 2012, Germany presented the sixth Periodic Report on Civil and Political Rights to the United Nations in Geneva. Now the Human Rights Committee published…
In June 2022, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) published a new report mapping protection options for particularly vulnerable persons, including trafficked persons, on routes towards the Mediterranean…
According to a study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women entitled Gender-Related Killings of Women and Girls (Femicide/Feminicide), almost 89,000 women and girls…
The Global Report on Trafficking in Persons of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been published. It is the seventh report commissioned under the 2010 United Nations Global…
In a newly released publication UNODC shares new approaches for mainstreaming human rights and gender equality in criminal justice responses to trafficking in human beings and migrant smuggling
The study "Illicit financial flows associated with smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons" by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) sheds lights on these ‘illicit financial…