International, Regional, and Sub-Regional Organizations Combating Trafficking in Persons
Organization |
Framework Document Relevant to TIP |
TIP Focal Point |
United Nations www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/
http://www.ilo.org/sapfl/Informationresources/ |
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (A/RES/55/25) (2000) United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (A/RES/64/293) (2010) ILO Conventions: -C105 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 -C182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 -C189 Domestic Workers Convention, & R201, 2011 |
Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography |
African Union (AU) |
Ouagadougou Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings, Especially Women and Children (2006) AU Commission Initiative against Trafficking Campaign (AU.COMMIT) |
N/A |
Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) |
ASEAN Declaration Against Trafficking in Persons, Particularly Women and Children, 2004 |
N/A |
Bali Regional Ministerial Conference On People Smuggling, Trafficking In Persons And Related Transnational Crime (Bali Process) |
Co Chairs’ Statements of the first (2002), second (2003), third (2009), fourth (2011), and fifth (2013) Bali Regional Ministerial Conference On People Smuggling, Trafficking In Persons And Related Transnational Crime |
N/A |
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) www.cis.minsk.by/ (in Russian only) |
Agreement on the Cooperation of the CIS Member States in Combatting Trafficking in Persons, Human Organs and Tissues (2005) Program of Cooperation between the CIS Member States against Trafficking in Persons for 2014–2018 |
N/A |
Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking (COMMIT) |
COMMIT Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation Against Trafficking in Greater Mekong Sub-Region (2004) COMMIT 3rd Sub-Regional Plan of Action (COMMIT SPAIII, 2011-2013) |
UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP) |
Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) http://www.cbss.org/civil-security-the-human-dimension/tfthb/ |
A Vision for the Baltic Sea region by 2020, CBSS Summit 2010. Expert Group for Cooperation on Children at Risk: Priority paper 2011 – 2013 Human Trafficking 2013 - Baltic Sea Region Round-up |
Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings with Focus on Adults (TF-THB) Expert Group on Children at Risk |
Council of Europe (COE) |
COE Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (2005) |
Group of Experts on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) |
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) |
Declaration on the Fight against Trafficking in Persons, 2001 ECOWAS Initial Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons (2002-2003), extended until 2011 Joint ECOWAS/ECCAS Regional Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (2006-2008) |
Anti-Trafficking Unit |
European Union (EU) |
Brussels Declaration on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, 2002 Directive on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and Protecting Victims |
European Union Anti-Trafficking Coordinator |
League of Arab States (LAS) www.arableagueonline.org/las/index.jsp (in Arabic only) |
Arab Framework Act on Combating Trafficking in Persons (2008) Arab Initiative to Combat Trafficking in Persons, 2010 |
N/A |
Organization of American States (OAS) |
Work Plan to Combat Trafficking in Persons in the Western Hemisphere 2010-2012 (AG/RES. 2551 (XL-O/10) |
Coordinator Against Trafficking in Persons |
Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) http://www.comcec.org/TR/Yeni_Site_ |
Charter of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, 2008 |
N/A |
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) |
OSCE Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings (2003) Platform for Action Against Human Trafficking (2007) Decision No. 1107 Addendum to the OSCE Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings, Decision No. 1107, 6 December 2013 |
Special Representative and Co-ordinator on Trafficking in Human Beings |
Regional Conference on Migration (RCM) (Puebla Group) |
Regional Conference on Migration Plan of Action |
N/A |
Southern African Development Community (SADC) |
SADC Regional Plan of Action on Trafficking in Persons, 2009-2019 |
N/A |
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) |
SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution, 2002 |
Regional Task Force |