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Trafficking in Persons and Refugee Status

Knowledge Platform

Trafficking in Persons and Refugee Status

This issue brief clarifies the relationship between refugee status and trafficking in persons across a number of situations and provides recommendations on what States can do to ensure that victims of trafficking have access to international protection as refugees where they need it. 

Date of Publication
Type of Resource
Target Audience
Government
Intergovernmental Organization
Source / Publisher
Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons
Language
English
Geographic Scope
Global
Workstream Output
No
Regional Review Process
No
GCM Objectives
Cross Cutting Theme
Rule of law and due process
Human rights
Keywords
Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
Trafficking in persons
Status
Published

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).