Knowledge Week aims to stimulate a discussion on the most salient issues around human trafficking and migrant smuggling with the support of experts and based on recent UNODC publications and tools. The Knowledge Week will address legal issues, gender-responsive approaches, human rights-based responses, innovative and integrated solutions from an evidence base perspective to these two forms of crime.

Scheduled for the week preceding the Working Groups on Trafficking in Persons and the Smuggling of Migrants, it will be particularly relevant to inform delegates and practitioners prior to the discussions that will take place in these inter-governmental fora.