International
14-06-2010: The US Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons releases its tenth annual Trafficking in Persons report...
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8-01-2010: The ECHR delivered a landmark judgment in Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia for the repression of human trafficking in a case concerning the suspicious death of a 20-year old Russian woman working in Cyprus as a cabaret artiste. The Court found among others a violation of Article 4 (Prohition of slavery and forced labour).
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16-6-2009: The US Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons releases its ninth annual Trafficking in Persons report...
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30-4-2009: OSCE Special Representative calls on States to combat exploitation in the agricultural sector...
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28-4-2099: Serbia and Belgium become the 23rd and 24th States to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, on 14/4 and 27/4 respectively...
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25-3-2009: EU steps up fight against trafficking in human beings and child abuse. The commission is calling for tougher laws against human trafficking and the sexual abuse of children, saying current efforts to combat these crimes don't reflect their scale and gravity...
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24-03-2009: On 25 and 26 June 2009, the Victims in Europe - 23rd Annual Conference of Victims Support Europe will be held at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon. The purpose of this event is to gather experts and professionals in the area of justice, social matters (civil society organisations) and policy-makers from different countries...
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17-02-2009: Nigeria, Italy and INTERPOL sign accord to step up fight against human trafficking, people smuggling and transnational organized crime...
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12-02-2009: A Global Report on Trafficking in Persons launched today by the United N
ations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) provides new information on a crime that shames us all. Based on data gathered from 155 countries, it offers the first global assessment of the scope of human trafficking...
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27-01-2009: The US State Department Trafficking in Persons Interim Assessment (May- November 2008) covers the six months since the release of the June 2008 annual Trafficking in Persons Report...
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December 2008: UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Refugee Protection and Human Trafficking: Selected Legal Reference Materials, First Edition. The compilation is divided into three parts...
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