Government Reports and Initiatives

This action plan lays out a 5-year path for further strengthening coordination, collaboration, and capacity across governmental and nongovernmental entities dedicated to providing support to the victims of human trafficking.

The infographic displays the multi-level interagency cooperation provided by the Federal agencies, noting key services and tasks. Click on the name of the agency to go directly to the website of that agency.

These online reports highlight innovative programs and victim-centered initiatives, summarize financial support to states and U.S. territories, and provide insight into OVC's strategic efforts to address both emerging and enduring challenges in order to expand and enhance victim assistance throughout the Nation.

This report describes the U.S. governments comprehensive campaign to combat TIP during Fiscal Year (FY) 2014, including efforts to carry out the 3P strategy to (1) protect victims by providing benefits and services; (2) investigate and prosecute human trafficking crimes; and (3) prevent further trafficking-related crimes. The report features an assessment of U.S. government activities based on improvements since the last annual report and recommendations made by agencies for further improvement during FY 2015.

This Final Report provides a set of findings and broad recommendations, informed by stakeholder forums and literature reviews, that form a framework for strategic, transformative change. It outlines ways the field can overcome the obstacles it faces and change how it meets victims' needs and addresses those who perpetrate crime.

This informational video on human trafficking and how to identify and assist victims is part of the Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking public awareness campaign.

This guide is a resource to support established task forces and provide guidance to agencies looking to form human trafficking task forces. Its purpose is to assist in the development and day to day operations of an anti-human trafficking task force and to provide fundamental guidance for effective task force operations.

The annual Trafficking in Persons report is a comprehensive resource of governmental anti-trafficking efforts. It represents an updated, global look at the nature and scope of trafficking in persons and the broad range of government actions to confront and eliminate it. The U.S. Government uses the TIP Report to engage foreign governments in dialogues to advance anti-trafficking reforms and to combat trafficking and to target resources on prevention, protection and prosecution programs.

The review looks specifically at the changing human trafficking trends worldwide and describes pilot AVR projects designed to exchange information and spread best practices, while addressing root causes of migration and sharing regional AVRR resources. It also provides detailed regional analyses, statistics and key information, case studies and provides detailed information on the largest existing source of primary data on victims of trafficking in the world: the IOMs Trafficked Migrants Assistance Database.

This resource examines the role of demand in fostering exploitation and trafficking in persons, and provides an overview of various international and regional legal and policy frameworks and initiatives as well as different approaches and measures undertaken by States and other stakeholders. In addition, the Special Rapporteur draws attention to some of the remaining challenges in integrating human rights-based approach, and provides a set of recommendations for addressing them.

Part of a series of information sheets on violence against women, this document provides a summary of what human trafficking is, its prevalence, the health effects, the health rights and services for trafficked persons, government obligation to the health of trafficked persons, and best approaches to deal with human trafficking from policy-makers, health-care providers and researchers and funders.

Global legal and policy developments, resolutions, recommendations and discussions are documented. Conclusions and recommendations are provided.

This film is a training tool targeted at prosecutors, judges, law enforcement officers and other specialized audiences, and illustrates the elements and different forms of human trafficking. It can be used to exemplify some of the key facets of human trafficking, including the differences between human trafficking and smuggling of migrants. It is available in abbreviated and full-length versions in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

This toolkit emphasizes comprehensive strategies based on a human rights framework.

This report, which details activities of the IOM's Assistance to Vulnerable Migrants programs and projects, focuses on IOM's direct assistance to trafficked persons and vulnerable migrants, in particular the provision of voluntary, safe, and sustainable return and reintegration assistance.

The most common form of human trafficking is sexual exploitation (79% of human trafficking cases). The victims of sexual exploitation are predominantly women and girls.

The ILO estimates that 20.9 million people are victims of forced labor globally, trapped in jobs into which they were coerced or deceived and which they can not leave. The document describes in detail the revised methodology used to generate the 2012 ILO global estimate of forced labour, covering the period from 2002 to 2011, and the main results obtained.