Human Trafficking - Human Rights: law and practice
Author: Sandhya Drew
This unique publication sets out the legal framework and practice at national level with regard to human trafficking, including the changes brought about as a result of the UK ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. Human Trafficking - Human Rights: law and practice will be of great use not just to practitioners, advisers and policy-makers working directly with victims of trafficking but also to the non-specialist practitioners who encounter trafficked persons and would like to know how best to help them.
Full Price: £30
Edition: First (April 2009) 368pp
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'Published by the Legal Action Group, this timely, informative and highly practical contribution to a difficult subject will be welcomed by practitioners, advice workers, trade unionists, employers and students alike … The author has succeeded in her aims of informing all those who may be called upon to advise upon or think about these issues, and enabling a better understanding of when and how they can arise and, most importantly, of what they can do about it.' Mrs Justice Cox, from the foreword.
'Within customary international law, the prohibition of slavery is regarded as the first declared human right. This book aims to set out the national legal framework on trafficking broadly divided into the three areas of prohibition, protection and prevention.' Independent Adviser
'Thorough, comprehensive and concise. Human Trafficking - Human Rights is useful for a broad spectrum of readers. Its greatest strength is the way that it brings together disparate disciplines, sources and frameworks to create a guide that deserves to be the first port of call for all those called upon to aid a victim of trafficking.' Justice Journal
Trafficking in human beings has become a major problem in the UK with an increasing number of people, the vast majority of them women and children, from impoverished parts of the world falling victim to trafficking for the purposes of sexual or other exploitation. The victims of trafficking regularly find themselves in a perilously vulnerable situation, often facing coercion and violence, unprotected by employment law safeguards and fearful of attempting to get help from the relevant authorities.
Human Trafficking - Human Rights: law and practice sets out to explain and discuss issues of theory such as definitions of legal terminology but goes further, providing invaluable practical guidance on how to assist victims. Covering both the use of civil law as well as criminal law, it provides helpful advice on how to deal with the identification of victims and how best to use national referral systems.
Contents include:
- Introduction
- Human trafficking in international law
- Legal framework at European level
- National law and practice
- The criminal offence of trafficking for sexual exploitation
- Protection of children
- Trafficking for the purpose of exploitation
- Short-term assistance and support
- Victims in the criminal courts
- Compensation
- Long-term solutions for individuals
- Labour inspection
- Representing migrant workers
- Removing the profit
The author
Sandhya Drew is a barrister at Tooks Chambers in London specialising in equality, employment and human rights law. She sits on the Learning and Development Group of the UK Human Trafficking Centre and has conducted first-hand research in the area of human trafficking in Europe and Asia. She has also published on this topic in the European Human Rights Law Review, the Common Market Law Review and Legal Action.
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Introduction (pdf: 63Kb)
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: 978 1 903307 65 6
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