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Trafficking usually stands at the center of all activities relating to child abuse and exploitation. A need exists to introduce effective legal regime, enforcement and preventive mechanism.
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Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation from Texas Department of Family and ...Billy Joe Cain
Radical Empathy Education Foundation attends groups and workshops related to human trafficking and this webinar contains data that every parent and first responder should be aware of.
Thousands of women and children are trafficked every day. Within the overall profile of trafficking in South Asia, India is a country of both transit and destination. There is a considerable degree of internal trafficking as well as some trafficking from India to Gulf States and to South East Asia. Sale of children and their movement across the state borders takes place within the country too. In other words, while there is movement of children through procurement and sale from one country to another, with India being both a supplier as well as a “consumer”, there is internal “movement” of children within the country itself - one town to another, one district to another and one state to another. It is undertaken in an organised manner, by organised syndicates or by individuals, and sometimes informal groups. Relatives and parents are part of this as well.
HAQ: Center for Child Rights
B1/2, Ground Floor,
Malviya Nagar
New Delhi - 110017
Tel: +91-26677412,26673599
Fax: +91-26674688
Website: www.haqcrc.org
FaceBook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HaqCentreForChildRights
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PICOT Question
For asymptomatic ureteral and anorectal Chlamydia trachomatis infection, would periodically screening sex workers be beneficial to reduce incidence and prevalence rates at the community level when compared to communities without intervention in six months?
Vulnerable Population
Sex workers are exposed to many health hazards including STDs such as Chlamydia, AIDs, gonorrhea, and syphilis. The most rampant of them all among sex workers and normal people in the population is chlamydia. The disease is bad if left unchecked but easily cured when it is detected and treated early. It affects the reproductive system to an extent it may cause ectopic pregnancy or even destruction of the uterus. Sex workers are highly subjected to this disease as they are mostly dealing with the most sexually active age group which carries the largest infection rate. The number of cases the department reported in 2016 grew to 94,719 in 2017, reaching 100,002. Groups with the highest risk of developing an STD were identified by the health department as being young adults (15–24), gay and bisexual men, and those who have had several sex partners. Chlamydial and gonococcal infections in females can cause pelvic.
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Monitoring and Evaluation of Global Sex Trafficking: What Do We Really Know? Focus on Gender and Health
1. Monitoring and Evaluation of
Global Sex Trafficking:
What Do We Really Know? Focus on Gender
and Health
Abby Cannon, Gender Specialist
Evis Farka Haake, M&E Associate
American Evaluation Association Annual Conference
Washington D.C.
October 17, 2013
2. Agenda
Overview of M&E of Trafficking
Question & Answer
Group work
Large group discussion
3. Objectives of the Presentation
Provide an overview of common forms of
trafficking
Discuss the challenges for conducting M&E
of trafficking
Discuss efforts and opportunities to advance
the current state of M&E of trafficking
4. Definition: Trafficking in Persons
UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol):
“The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt
of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other
forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of
the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the
giving or receiving of payments
or benefits to achieve the
consent of a person having
control over another person,
for the purpose of exploitation.”
Source: UN (2000). Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Person, Especially Women
and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.
5. Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Definitions
United States - the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
(TVPA) definition:
“sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced
by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person
induced to perform such an act has not attained 18
years of age; or the recruitment, harboring,
transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for
labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or
coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary
servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.”
6. Size of the problem
Estimates range from 2.4 million¹ to 27
million trafficking victims worldwide
BUT
47,000 identified trafficking victims²
1. International Labour Organization. 2012. ILO Global estimate of forced labour: Results and methodology.
Geneva. Accessible at http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/--declaration/documents/publication/wcms_182004.pdf
2. US Department of State. 2013. Trafficking in Persons Report. Washington, DC. Accessible at:
http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2013/index.htm
7. 20.9 million people in forced labour
State-imposed
forced labour
2 200 000 (10%)
Forced sexual
exploitation
4 500 000 (22%)
Forced labour
exploitation
14 200 000 (68%)
1. International Labour Organization. 2012. ILO Global estimate of forced labour: Results and methodology.
Geneva. Accessible at http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/--declaration/documents/publication/wcms_182004.pdf
8. Unintended Consequences
Equating TIP with illegal migration or sex work
has created collateral damage for many victims.
Legal migration vs. trafficking
Sex work vs. trafficking
9. Exploratory Qualitative Study
A formative, qualitative study was conducted in
2012/2013 on the monitoring and evaluation of
trafficking in persons as it relates to gender and
global health, particularly HIV/AIDS.
Aimed to identify and understand the successes
and challenges in the M&E of human trafficking
10. Methods
Literature review
Qualitative research study
Semi-structured interviews with experts in:
gender
global health
HIV/AIDS
counter-trafficking
M&E
11. Finding 1
A gender and health perspective is critical
in TIP.
acknowledges trafficking in both men and
women
includes those involved in the process of
trafficking
12. Finding 2
Consensus that TIP has important impacts
on global health
Higher HIV prevalence among individuals that have
been trafficked
Increased risk for:
mental health conditions including depression and
PTSD
sexual violence, contraceptive failure, poor MNCH
outcomes, gender-based violence, TB
13. Example: Sex trafficking and increased
HIV risk
A study among repatriated women and girls in Nepal found several
factors within trafficking to be associated with increased risk of HIV
infection:
Age of trafficking (younger than 14 showed significantly increased risk)
Length of time in servitude
Serving in multiple brothels
Destination city
Nearly 9 in 10 individuals who developed TB were HIV co-infected.
.
Silverman, J. G., Decker, M. R., Gupta, J., Maheshwari, A., Willis, B. M., & Raj, A. (2007). HIV prevalence and predictors of
infection in sex-trafficked nepalese girls and women. JAMA : The Journal of the American Medical Association, 298(5), 536542.
14. Example: Sex trafficking and increased
HIV risk
2006 study in India
HIV prevalence of 22.9% among women and girls rescued from
brothels in Mumbai.
Association found between HIV status and age of trafficking
For every month in captivity, there was a 3% to 4% increased risk
of HIV infection
No differences in HIV status based on nationality, marital status,
or number of sex work clients per day were identified.
Silverman, J. G., Decker, M. R., Gupta, J., Maheshwari, A., Patel, V., & Raj, A. (2006). HIV prevalence
and predictors among rescued sex-trafficked women and girls in Mumbai, India. Journal of Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 43(5), 588-593.
15. Finding 3
Evidence base is lacking
Improved monitoring and evaluation
practices related to the effects of TIP
are needed
16. Finding 4
Trafficking can be a
contentious arena; however,
improved discourse between
gender, public health,
HIV/AIDS, M&E, and TIP
professionals could have
profound impact on HIV and
trafficking programs.
17. Main Recommendation
A meeting of experts from each discipline is needed to:
focus on opportunities and help create M&E
frameworks, indicators, and best practices
identify promising approaches, methods and
tools to be used in M&E of TIP as it relates to
health and gender
formulate a learning agenda that would help in
moving this field forward
18. Expert Consultation on Indicator
Development for Monitoring and Evaluation
of Trafficking in Persons within the Context
of Gender and Health
Washington, DC
October 1-3, 2013
19. Consultation Objectives
Day 1: Areas of measurement
Attain consensus on the critical areas to TIP
within the context of gender and health
Days 2-3: Indicators
Develop set of indicators of these areas for
program managers, policymakers, & others
Discuss strategy for dissemination, field-testing
new indicators
20. Representatives from:
International Organization for Migration
International Labour Organization
UNICEF
USAID
U.S. State Department
NIH/NIDA
Researchers from top universities
o 2 international universities
o 3 US universities
NGO representatives
21. Day 1
TIP Policies and Definitions in the International
Context
Operationalizing sex trafficking in research and
practice
Health and Human Trafficking
Child trafficking
Challenges of Sampling and Data collection
Overview from ILO and IOM on data collection
22. Days 2 & 3
Input on areas of measurement
Small group work on developing indicators
Plenary group session to build consensus on
all indicators
23. Existing Gaps and Challenges
Identification of victims
Definitions of TIP vary
Limited measurement of policy or programming
impact
Limited availability of data
o Each sector provides a small and biased subset of
all cases
o Data is not comparable
24. Areas of Measurement
Policies and Law
Prevention
Law enforcement
Health Sector
o Health service providers
Non-health services
o Education
o Community
Other areas:
o Referral mechanisms
26. Discussion
Break into small groups
Select 1-2 discussion questions
Appoint someone to report back to the large
group
20-30 minutes
27. MEASURE Evaluation is funded by the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) and implemented by the
Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in partnership with Futures Group, ICF International,
John Snow, Inc., Management Sciences for Health, and Tulane
University. Views expressed in this presentation do not necessarily
reflect the views of USAID or the U.S. government.
MEASURE Evaluation is the USAID Global Health Bureau's
primary vehicle for supporting improvements in monitoring and
evaluation in population, health and nutrition worldwide.
Trafficking in persons is a complex, politically charged, and often-contentious human rights issue. A fundamental struggle faced by the counter-trafficking sphere is defining the phenomenon. For this reason, data collection and measuring has been an issue. Force, fraud and coercion for the purposes of exploitation are usually the common threads in the definitions of TIP.
In part due to the difficult nature of counting people that have been trafficked, as well as varying definitions of trafficking, estimates of number of people trafficked world wide range. Few studies cite numbers as small as 500,000, but most estimates depict a much larger and pervasive issue with 27 million and 20.9 million victims “conservatively” estimated. Despite the large estimations of how many people are trafficked, in 2012, there were only 47,000 victims identified, according to the US State Department. In order the fill this large gap between estimation and document victims, improved M&E is necessary, including methods and approaches used to reach this particularly hidden population.
In addition to varying definitions of trafficking, other policies and strategies to fight trafficking have had unintended and sometimes negative consequences. Two of the most common approaches to trafficking have been “curbing immigration and banning prostitution.” Unfortunately, equating TIP with illegal migration or sex work has created collateral damage for many victims. For example… Suppressing legal migration can force individuals into the hands of traffickers as their only option for migrationSex work vs. trafficking – confusing the two harms the rights of neither sex workers or trafficking victims were servedIn order to understand the situation of M&E and trafficking, a qualitative study was conducted– Abby will tell you more.
The first step in this formative research project was a literature review, which is used not only to understand the intersection of gender, global public health, HIV/AIDS, and trafficking in persons, but also to identify current measurement gaps interfering with the better understanding of these interrelated fields. While M&E practices in TIP are improving, many challenges remain. The literature identifies specific issues in the M&E of TIP, and also the need for improved discourse between actors in TIP, gender, and global health. Sex trafficking can be an area of intense debate because of different perceptions of both the morality and the legality of sex work and how these perceptions and legal implications play out in the arena of counter-trafficking. This paper does not focus on these issues, but it is crucial to acknowledge them and to recognize the potential constraints they many have on any recommendations.
- Eighteen interviews were conducted - M&E interviews focused primarily on methods, tools, and indicators deployed in measuring the size and location of TIP, the effects of TIP on health, as well as the M&E practices used in the field by counter-trafficking programs to track their successes and progress- Informationanalyzed following the Qualitative Analysis Guide of Leuven (QUAGOL) approachThe goal of the interviews was to gain an understanding of knowledge and practices of experts in these disciplines.
Gender impacts health outcomes, including the risk of HIV, access to health care, and maternal and child health. Evidence documents the correlation between higher levels of gender equality and better health outcomes. This applies to interventions responding to Trafficking in Persons (TIP). A gender perspective is critical to TIP response and will acknowledge trafficking in both men and women and their unique needs; and address the differential impacts of policies on men and women. A gender focus should include men and boys, and help us understand who is involved in the process of trafficking, including but not limited to traffickers, victims, and those who purchase trafficked goods and services.
Impacts on global health:Not only does trafficking adversely affect health in a variety of ways, but there is also evidence that individuals who have been trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation have a higher prevalence of HIV than individuals in sex work who were not trafficked.,, Trafficked people are at risk for a range of mental health conditions such as depression and PTSD, increased risk of HIV, violence and mental distress, sexual violence, contraceptive failure and poor MNCH outcomesReproductive health, gender-based violence, mental health and HIV experts recognize that TIP is a very important area at the intersection of gender and healthSex trafficking contributes to the spread of HIV, but the extent of the contribution depends on the epidemic in a specific location, and is unclear because the number of people currently being held in a situation of sex trafficking is unknown. If you would like more examples on association of HIV and sex trafficking, we can offer a few more examples in the Q&A.
Age of trafficking (younger than 14 showed significantly increased risk)Destination city (Mumbai showed greater risk than other Indian cities)
Association found between HIV status and age of trafficking, with younger ages more likely to be HIV-positiveDuration of confinement in brothels was positively associated with HIV-positive status. For every month in captivity, there is a 3 to 4 percent increase risk in HIV infection.
There are many challenges facing M&E in the human trafficking field that must be addressed, including the ways in which M&E of TIP and HIV/AIDS programs overlap. There are currently inadequate indicators, methods and tools to track where and to what extent human trafficking is happening, how TIP is affecting heath, and what programs are making the largest impact in counter-trafficking.
Because TIP negatively affects health and increases risk of HIV/AIDS and because there are several points of interaction in the prevention, care, and treatment of the two, HIV and counter-trafficking programs should work together to improve impact.
Definitions of TIP vary adding to the complexity of data collection and measurementEach sector provides a small and biased subset of all cases, e.g. criminal justice and survivor service agenciesData is not comparable across sectors, governments, and NGOs
Potential discussion topics:Methods for data collection?Are we missing any major areas of measurement?How does the work you do intersect with trafficking?What are the main areas around trafficking that need evaluation?Methods?