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  Streetwalkers Show the Way - Reframing the Debate on Trafficking from Sex Workers' Perspective

  BRIDGE, 2004

  Ending trafficking into sex work requires measures to ensure all brothel owners and managers abide by norms barring them from recruiting trafficked sex workers. Durbar, the West Bengal Sex Workers Collective, established local Self-Regulatory Boards in Calcutta in 1999 and later, across West Bengal.
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  Interim Report on Women and Migration

  Committee on Feminism and International Law, 2004

  This report examines from a human rights and gender angle, the 'Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children'. This protocol, signed by 117 states and ratified by 62 states, came into force in 2003.
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  Global Human Rights and Trafficking in Persons: A Handbook

  2000

  This handbook is for NGOs, activists and other people who come into contact with trafficked persons or who are interested in the issue of trafficking. It is a broad-based manual, containing general strategies that can be easily adapted to local contexts.
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  Intersecting Protections, Migrating Women: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers

  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice [New York University Law School], 2004

  With the growing feminisation of migration comes an increasing focus on the abuses women migrants face in sending and receiving countries. Much of the effort to combat these violations centres on urging states to ratify the Migrant Workers Convention (MWC), which came into force in 2003.
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  Traffic in Women in War and Peace: Mapping Experiences in Southeast Europe

  Taylor and Francis Group, 2004

  How concerns around prostitution and migration are politically framed can decide and formulate policy strategies, with neighbouring countries taking radically different approaches to legislation. Traffic in women entails situations of violence and social control, where the lines between migration, human trafficking and smuggling become blurred.
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  Follow-up to the Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties-Argentina

  2004

  The economic, social and political crisis that Argentina has suffered since mid-1998 has had a severe negative impact on the situation of women. It caused a sharp increase in the percentage of poor and extremely poor women, in maternal mortality and female HIV/AIDS infection rates, and in sex crimes, such as trafficking for the purposes of prostitution.
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  Fifth Periodic CEDAW Report - Bangladesh

  2003

  Despite numerous positive advancements, patriarchal values and practices still limit Bangladeshi women's opportunities for education and employment. They also place them at a greater risk of violence in the form of rape, acid attacks and trafficking. Bangladesh is one of seven countries in the world where the number of women is less than that of men.
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  Trafficking of Women and Children in Indonesia

  International Catholic Migration Commission, 2003

  In Indonesia, counter-trafficking measures have been inhibited by the fact that in many cases 'trafficking' is not considered exploitative. This comprehensive report argues that broadening the definition of trafficking from prostitution to include migrant work, domestic work, sex work and mail order brides can ensure that these forms of exploitation are also addressed.
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  Where Are The Girls? Girls in fighting forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique: Their lives during and after war

  2004

  This study contributes to what is currently known about the experiences of girls in fighting forces as distinct from those of boys. It is meant to assist policymakers in developing policies and programs to help protect and empower girls in situations of armed conflict and postwar reconstruction.
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  Alternative Report of Cladem Peru on the Implementation in Peru of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  2002

  This shadow report, led by The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights -Peru (CLADEM-Peru), contributes to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

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