LibGuides: International Humanitarian Law: Responses from the United Nations

The United Nations is an "intergovernmental organization tasked with maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving international co-operation, and being a center for harmonizing the actions of nations." See Wikipedia, United Nations (2019), available as a link below. As part of its goal to maintain international peace and security, the United Nations offers resources to governments about drafting and creating anti-trafficking laws and strategies. Beyond that, governments also receive specialized assistance to encourage cross-border cooperation in investigations and prosecutions of suspected trafficking crimes. See United Nations, About the UN (2019), available as a link below.

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Evidential Issues in Trafficking in Persons Cases

Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking by the United Nations

World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Each year the United Nations marks July 30th as the international World Day against Trafficking in Persons. It was declared that such a day was necessary to “raise awareness of the situation of victims of human trafficking and for the promotion and protection of their rights.” Each year the campaign highlights different aspects of trafficking in persons, making each subset of the crime visible to the greater public.

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons
The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons is a protocol to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. It was created by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as a way to offer practical help to countries with drafting laws and creating comprehensive national anti-trafficking strategies. The adoption in 2000 by the United Nations General Assembly marked a significant milestone in the international efforts to stop human trafficking.

Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking
UN.GIFT was launched in March 2007 by the International Labour Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the International Organization for Migration, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. It was established as a means to promote the global fight on human trafficking through international agreements made through the United Nations.
Global Migration Group
The Global Migration Group was created in 2006 by then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. As an inter-agency group, its primary focus was on "promoting the wider application of all relevant international and regional instruments and norms relating to migration, and to encourage the adoption of more coherent, comprehensive and better coordinated approaches to the issue of international migration."

See United Nations, World Day against Trafficking in Persons Security-General's Message (2019), available as a link below.

World Day against Trafficking in Persons Security-General's Message