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Trafficking Research Hub website,10 which is dedicated to data collection, knowledge transfer
and the development of methodologies related to research on child trafficking. Other recent
publications include a Reference Guide on Protecting the Rights of Child Victims of Trafficking
in Europe,11 and a report entitled South Asia in Action: Preventing and Responding to Child
Trafficking.12 UNICEF has also produced Guidelines on the Protection of Child Victims of
Trafficking.13 This technical resource serves as a platform for developing policies and practices
and assists Governments, international organizations, NGOs and other service providers with the
protection of child victims of trafficking.
18. The ILO publishes global reports on forced labour and child labour, containing examples
of good practices in the implementation of the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights
at Work. In addition, the Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration, called for by member
States at the International Labour Conference in 2004, includes principles and good practice
examples on the protection of migrant workers against abusive practices, including forced labour
and trafficking. The report by the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and
Recommendations on the 2007 General Survey concerning the Forced Labour Convention, 1930
(No. 29) and the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105)14 is particularly
relevant in examining the impact of ILO supervisory machinery on the fight against trafficking
in persons. In the survey, the Committee referred to its continuous work since 2001 in drawing
the attention of the International Labour Conference to the problem of trafficking in human
beings for forced labour. The periodical supervision of ratified ILO child labour conventions
(in particular, Convention No. 182 (1999) on the Worst Forms of Child Labour) has been raising
the issues of child trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation in a number of countries.
19. A number of United Nations entities are in the process of developing or have already
developed guidelines, as a platform for the formulation of policies and practices on combating
human trafficking. WHO is collaborating with IOM on the development of guidelines for health
providers on trafficking in persons, aiming to provide practical, non-clinical advice to help health
providers understand the phenomenon, recognize some of the associated health problems and
consider safe and appropriate approaches to providing health care to victims of trafficking. The
first draft of the health guidelines, developed by experts on health and human trafficking, were to
be released at the end of 2008. It is expected that they will be tested in different countries,
leading to a final set of guidelines in 2010.
10
http://www.childtrafficking.org/.
11
Available at: http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/UNICEF_Child_Trafficking_low.pdf.
12
Available at: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/files/IRC_CT_Asia_Summary_FINAL4.
pdf.
13
Available at: www.unicef.at/fileadmin/medien/pdf/UNICEF_Guidelines_on_the_Protection_
of_Child_Victims_of_Trafficking.pdf.
14
Available at: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---relconf/documents/
meetingdocument/wcms_089199.pdf.
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