This year, we have organized the event:
INTERNATIONAL EXPERT ROUND TABLE
TIME TO GET REAL – Beyond Awareness Raising and Recommendations
6 October 2023 – 09:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Vienna – Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer)
Theresianumgasse 16-18
In cooperation with:
where renowned Researchers, Experts, Stakeholders and Practitioners discussed and explored:
- how to reduce the likelihood of people being trafficked and exploited
- the missing link(s) between ineffective action and accountability for protecting Human Rights.
- why the Universal Declaration of Human Rights must not be open to interpretations at will.
- positive and negative experiences regarding the implementation of monitoring exercises.
- why many monitoring efforts result in little progress and what is ’shoved under the carpet’.
- how policy responses to migration impact on human trafficking and exploitation.
- how to trigger political will and make cooperation more effective.
- … and more…
In this context, we would like to share with you our position paper “Is robust Monitoring the Key for Change?”, which you can download here:
Agenda, Info, Registration, Livestream
Please find our agenda below:
Panelists, Commentators, Experts, Researchers, Practitioners List:
The event has taken place live in Vienna with the option to join online via livestream.
A registration of the livestream is available for further use:
Part I: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Part II: 01:30 p.m – 05:00 p.m.
Gallery
Here are some photos from our event:
Related Notes, Documents, Background Info & Links
Afiah Zabre:
Abstract and Documents
Conny Rijken:
Valentina Carraro
Article (open access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09240519221131668
This article devises a framework to assess the degree to which human rights bodies provide duplicating or contradicting recommendations to States.
Article (open access) https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/63/4/1079/5567246
Promoting Compliance with Human Rights: The Performance of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review and Treaty Bodies
Piotrowicz Ryszard
https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/lac/staff-profiles/listing/profile/ryp/
KOK Conference Presentation, Berlin, October 2021 – Data Collection, Identification of Trafficked Persons and the Right to Privacy – Strategies and Challenges
Manfred Nowak
Tetiana Rudenko
Marie-Theres Prantner
Implementation Report of the WG Prostitution (April 2021)
Position paper on customer criminalization for sexual services by the WG Prostitution (December 2021)
Department of Justice Northern Ireland – Impact Assessment: criminalization of the purchase of sexual services (September 2019)
Department of Justice Northern Ireland – Review of the criminalization of payment for sexual services in Northern Ireland (September 2019)
Markus Zingerle
Claire Healy
Related Blogs
Human Traffickers Cannot Claim Diplomatic Immunity (with Muraszkiewicz), 13 September 2022
https://humantraffickingsearch.org/human-traffickers-cannot-claim-diplomatic-immunity-maybe/
The Weaponization of Migration (with Muraszkiewicz), 28 December 2021
County Lines and Non-Punishment, September 2021
Whose Evidence Counts in Identifying Trafficked People (with Muraszkiewicz), 8 June 2021
Non-punishment of Trafficked People, 21 April 2021
https://www.lastradainternational.org/blog/how-far-can-we-extend-the-non-punishment-principle/
Genocide of Uighur People, 14 July 2020
Reasonableness the Welsh Way (with Lewis), Thinking Wales, 11 June 2020
Reasonableness the Welsh Way – Thinking Wales – Meddwl Cymru – Cardiff University
Think Tank Gleanings
Mike Dottridge
Is Robust Monitoring the Key for Change?
Helmut Sax
Looking for the Missing Link(s) Between Ineffective Action and Accountability for Protecting Human Rights – The Case of Anti-Trafficking – Monitoring at National and Local Levels
Conny Rijken
The Dutch National Rapporteur – a ‚model’ for the establishment of independent National Rapporteurs?
- Mandate anchored by law:
Conducting research into the nature and scope of human trafficking and its effects on policies developed and implemented by authorities;
Advising the government on the prevention of and approach to address trafficking in human beings; Periodic reporting to the government
- The importance of being independent:
Due to its independent status, protected by law, the rapporteur can make its own decisions with regards to its priorities and research agenda.
- The conditions for independence:
Strong legal basis, guaranteed budget, agreed follow up of reports and advice, strong data position, know your partners
General Presentation of the Dutch National Rapporteur on Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence against Children
Roger Plant
Business, Labour Trafficking and Migration: What’s the Balance Sheet?
Suzanne Hoff
Presentation
Debate on the envisaged amendment of the EC/EU Anti-Trafficking Directive
„At the European level, the amendment of the Directive on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims is currently being negotiated. In addition, the report on the regulation of prostitution in the EU: its cross-border implications and impact on gender equality and women’s rights was adopted. Both initiatives are characterized by questionable efforts regarding the introduction of client criminalization in the member states and restriction of the autonomy of sex workers as well as a mixing of human trafficking and sex work. In the case of the Anti-Trafficking Directive, this is particularly evident in the proposed Article 18a and Recital 9. The implementation of these problematic efforts would lead to a worsening of the position of sex workers as well as a pushing of sex workers into illegality and thus an increase in the risk of exploitation and is therefore rejected by renowned human rights organizations. The problem is detailed in the following open letters:
► Open letter regarding the resolution on prostitution: Open letter to MEPS re: Pr*stitution Report – European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance (eswalliance.org)
► Open letter regarding the Anti-Trafficking directive: Open letter to Members of the European Parliament Re: Article 18 a) of the Anti-trafficking Directive (CA 11 and CA 11a alternative) – European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance (eswalliance.org)
► Resolution on the regulation of prostitution in the EU: its cross-border implications and impact on gender equality and women’s rights: TA MEF (europa.eu)
► Report (FEMM/LIBE) regarding the Anti-Trafficking directive: REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims | A9-0285/2023 | European Parliament (europa.eu)
Recent Comments on the Occasion of the European Anti-Trafficking Day
La Strada International
Statement on EU Anti Trafficking Day: Use the revision of the EU THB Directive to strengthen victims’ rights
Statement on an occasion of the EU Anti-trafficking day
THB Regional Implementation Initiative 