I. Legal Instruments
A. International Human Rights Instruments and Resolutions
1. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (United Nations, 1950).
2. Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Nov. 2, 2000, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, 40 I.L.M. 353, 377 (opened for signature 12 December, 2000).
3. Revised draft Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (United Nations, 1999).
4. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime on Consideration of the Revised Protocol (December, 1999).
5. Resolution of the Commission on Human Rights on Traffic in Women and Girls (United Nations, 1999).
6. Strategic Objective D.3.- Eliminate trafficking in women and assist victims of violence due to prostitution and trafficking, excerpted from the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
1. Joint Action to combat trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation of children, adopted 1997.
2. Framework Decision on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (European Union - expected to be ratified in 2001) (Need to print a copy or link to web address)
1. Decree of the Cabinet Ministers of Ukraine on the Program for Prevention of Trafficking in Women and Children (1999).
D. U.S. Domestic Legislation
1. U.S. Congressional Resolution 82 on trafficking in persons, 106th Congress.
2. Bill Tracking Report for the 106th Congress; status of bill to end international sexual trafficking.
3. Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, Pub. L. No. 106-386,
§2002, 114 Stat. 1464, codified at 22 U.S.C.A. § 7101 et seq.
II. Work by Regional Human Rights Bodies (includes both domestic violence and trafficking)
A. The Council of Europe
1. Information Document of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men on Violence towards women in Europe (1999).
2. Press release on violence against women in Europe (1999).
3. Motion for a recommendation to the Parliamentary Assembly on a Campaign against trafficking in women (1999).
4. Motion for a recommendation to the Parliamentary Assembly on Violence on women in Europe (1998).
5. Final Declaration of the Second Summit of the Council of Europe on the promotion of human rights, including violence against women (1997).
6. Report of the Parliamentary Assembly on Traffic in women and forced prostitution in Council of Europe member states, (1997) [includes an Appendix on a questionnaire sent to member states on the issue of trafficking].
7. Recommendation 1325 of the Parliamentary Assembly on trafficking in women and forced prostitution (1997).
8. Decision of the Committee of Ministers to adopt Recommendation 1325 (1997).
9. Survey on Prostitution, Migration and Traffic in Women: History and Current Situation. By Licia Brussa from the Seminar on action against traffic in women and forced prostitution as violations of human rights and human dignity (1991).
B. The European Union
1. European Commission Campaign to Raise Awareness of Violence Against Women, 1999 (background information).
2. Press release on the European Union ministerial conference on violence against women (1999).
3. Press release on EU projects to stop violence and sexual exploitation (1999).
4. Action Program to combat violence against children, young persons and women (the Daphne programme).
5. European Union Annual Report on Human Rights 1998, excerpts from Thematic Issues (Freedom from slavery and forced labor and Women’s rights).
6. Communication on trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
7. Measure to Fight Against Trafficking in Human Beings, European Commission communication, 1998.
C. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
1. Questions relating to Security in Europe, excerpted from the Final Act (Helsinki, 1975).
2. ODIHR Background Paper on Trafficking in Human Beings- Implications for the OSCE (1999). (07/14/01)
3. Proposed Action Plan 2000 for Activities to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings (1999).
4. Press Release on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings: OSCE/ODIHR Presents Action Plan (1999).
1. "A World Free of Violence Against Women" Violence Against Women in the World of Work", by Janine Rodgers from Gender and Work, a series of papers from the Gender Equality division of ILO, 8 March, 1999.
1. Trafficking in Migrants, (IOM) Policy and Responses, 1999.
2. Statement by the IOM to the Commission on the Status of Women (United Nations 1998).
III. Reports on Trafficking (governmental, non-governmental and scholarly)
A. Global
1. Integration of the Human Rights of Women and the Gender Perspective- Violence Against Women- Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coommarswamy, on trafficking in women, women’s migration, February 2000.
2. International Trafficking in Women to the United States: A Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery and Organized Crime, by Amy O’Neill Richard, prepared for the CIA, Nov. 1999.
3. Message from Mary Robinson, "Breakdown of Borders", International Abolitionist Federation (IAF) Conference on trafficking in women, Denmark, 1999.
4. Women as Chattel: The Emerging Global Market in Trafficking, USAID Office of Women in Development, 1999.
5. The International Law on Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostituion: Making it live Up to its Potential, by Stephanie Farrior, In Harvard Human Rights Journal, Spring 1997.
6. The Worldwide Market for Sex: A Review of International and Regional Prohibitions Regarding Trafficking in Women, by Susan Jeanne Toepfer and Bryan Stuart Wells, In Michigan Journal of Gender and Law, 1994.
7. Transnational Training Seminar on Trafficking in Women, Hungary, 1998 (Open Society Institute and the Global Survival Network).
8. Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation, Coalition Against Trafficking of Women. By Donna M. Hughes, Laura Jow Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn and Vanessa Chirgwin. 1999.
<http://www.catwinternational.org/factbook.htm> (06/26/01)
9. Trafficking in women: Alternate migration or modern slave trade? By Emek M. Ucarer, In Gender and politics in global governance, eds. Mary K. Meyer and Elisabeth Prugl, 230-244. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999.
10. Integration of the human rights of women and the gender perspective, By Radika Coomaraswamy, New York: United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 2000.
11. Trafficking in women, by Lois Chiang, In Women and international human rights
law, eds. Kelly D. Askin and Dorean M. Koenig, vol. 1: 321-364. Ardsley: Transnational Publishers, Inc., 1999.
12. Prostitution: A contemporary form of slavery, by Dorchen Leidholdt, Coalition against Trafficking in Women, 1998.
13. Enslavement as an International Crime, by Cherif Bassioni (find year and book)
14. Stopping Traffic: An exploratory study of trafficking in women for sexual exploitation in the UK (organised crime), by L. Kelly and L. Regan, 2000. Police Research Series 125, London: Home Office Policing and Reducing Crime Unit. [PDF version in office files]
B. Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States
1. Preliminary Survey Report on Sexual Trafficking in the CIS, MiraMed Institute, 1999.
2. Crime & Servitude: An Exposé of the Traffic in Women for Prostitution from the Newly Independent States, Moscow: Global Survival Network, 1997. (3 copies) Caldwell, Gillian, Steven Galster and Nadia Steinzor.
3. Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women on the mission to Poland on the issue of trafficking and forced prostitution of women (United Nations 1996). (2 copies)
4. Trafficking and Prostitution: The Growing Exploitation of Migrant Women from Central and Eastern Europe, IOM, 1995.
5. Child trafficking in Albania. By Daniel Renton. Save the Children, 2001.
6. Redirecting the Debate over Trafficking in Women: Definitions, Paradigms, and Contexts, 11 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 65, Spring 1998.
7. The Trafficking of Women for Prostitution: A Growing Problem Within the European Union, 21 B.C. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev.21: 183 — 197. 1998
8. Human rights of women in Central and Eastern Europe, by Julie Mertus, American
University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 6 (Spring): 369-466, 1998.
9. Trafficking of women into the European Union, by Diane Johnson, In New
England International and Comparative Law Annual 5: 230-250, 1999.
C. Ukraine
1. USAID/ Ukraine Anti-Trafficking Program Strategy Review and Legal Component Design, Nov.1999. (2 copies)
2. World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations- Statement regarding Health and Trafficking of Women prepared for the 43rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (United Nations 1999).
3. Trafficking in Women: Moldova and Ukraine. Minneapolis: Minnesota Advocates for Human
Rights. Banwell, Suzanna, Robin Phillips and Malinda Schmichen. 2000.
4. Fifth Quarterly Progress Report: Trafficking Prevention in Ukraine, Winrock International and NIS-US Women’s Consortium, 1999.
5. Unprecedented Incident- First Criminal Case of Trafficking in Humans in Kherson Oblast, Article from Facts [Ukrainian newspaper] 1999.
6. Information Campaign Against Trafficking in Women from Ukraine, Research Report, IOM, 1998. (2 copies)
7. Information Campaign Against Trafficking in Women from Ukraine, Project Report, IOM, 1998. (2 copies)
8. Prevention of Trafficking in Women from Ukraine: Ukrainian Information Campaign, IOM, 1997.
9. An Integrated Strategy to Address the Trafficking of Ukrainian Women, USAID, 1998.
10. Report on the Violation of Rights and Freedoms of Ukrainian Women in Foreign Countries, Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
11. Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naïve Slavic Women by Michael Specter, NY Times, Jan. 11, 1998.
12. The Problem of White Slavery at the End of the Second Millennium by Oksana Havrylenko. (trans. from Ukrainian)
1. Russian organized crime and corruption: Putin's challenge. Washington D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies. Cilluffo, Frank J., ed. 2000.
2. Traffic Jam: Recommendations for civil and criminal penalties to curb the recent trafficking of women from Post-Cold War Russia. By Christopher M. Pilkerton, 1999. Michigan Journal of Gender and Law 6: 221-258.
IV. Background Materials
1. Russian Organized Crime and Curruption: Putin’s Challenge, by the Global Alliance Crime Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies task force report, Washington D.C., 2000. (www.csis.org/)
2. Sexual exploitation and trafficking of women on the Internet, by Donna M. Hughes,
London: Coalition against Trafficking in Women, 1997
3. The Internet and sex industries: Partners in global sexual exploitation, by Donna M. Hughes, 2000. <http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/siii.htm> (06/20/01)
4. The development if international police cooperation within the EU and between the EU and third party states: A discussion of the legal bases of such cooperation and problems and promises resulting thereof, by Jacqueline Klosek, In American University International Law Review, 1999.
1. Health effects of prostitution, by Janice G. Raymond, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Geneva, 1998.
1. Sex and the tourist city: the development of commercial sex as part of the provision of tourist services, by Simon Carter, In Tourism and sex: Culture, commerce and coercion, eds. Stephen Clift and Simon Carter, 131-153. New York: Pinter, 2000.
2. The sex trade industry’s worldwide exploitation of children, by R. Barri Flowers, In the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May 2001.
3. Report from the Roundtable on the Meaning of "Trafficking in Persons": A Human Rights Perspective, In Women’s Rights Law Reporter, Fall/Winter 1998.
V. Training Materials
1. Do you want to trade your dignity, your freedom and your health for a cage?, pamphlet/ brochure created by IOM for Ukrainian women.
1. Human Rights in Practice: A Guide to Assist Trafficked Women and Children, by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, 1999. (Need to order a copy.)
2. Handbook for Human Rights Action in the Context of Traffic in Women, by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, 1997. (Need to order, or refer to. We do have copies of the chapters on NGO Strategies and Campaign Tools.)
3. "Be Smart! Be Safe!" brochures from the U.S. State Department. (Order in various languages.)
1. Proposals for National program of preventing and fighting traffic on women and children, Attachment to letter to the Ministry of Education, Ukraine, 1998.
2. Letters from Donetsk Regional League of Business and Professional Women to NIS-US Womens Consortium regarding trainers in the prevention of trafficking, July 17, 1998.
VI. Additional Materials on Trafficking
1. Matrix of [Ukrainian] Organizations Working on Trafficking.
2. Letter from Chairman from Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights on violations of women's rights in Kyrgystan, July 27, 2001 (includes info. on trafficking of girls to China) (I'd also suggest looking at their website-http://www.kchr.elcat.kg- which has a report on Women in Kyrgystan that alsomentions trafficking and sexual exploitation) (E. Duban has copy in her files.)
3. 60 Minutes Transcript: Billion Dollar Business; Poverty-Stricken Eastern Europe Making Billions of Dollars by Transporting Women to Work in WesternCities in the Sex Trade, June 3, 2001
4. Trafficking in Women: The Need for International and a Multidisciplinary Response. Remarks by b Theresa Loar, U.S. Dept. of State Senior Coordinator for Intl’ Women’s Issues. Presented at the Intl’ Conference, :The trafficking of NIS Women Abroad", November 3-5, 1997, Moscow.
5. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright Interview by Oprah Winfrey, January 17, 2001,
As released by the Office of the Spokesman, U.S. Department of State (go to web for
document) http://secretary.state.gov/www/statements/2001/010117a.html
VII. Newspaper and Magazine Articles
1. The Oldest Profession Seeks New Market in Western Europe, Roger Cohen, NYT, September 19,
2000.
2. C.I.A. Depicts A Vast Trade in Forced Labor, Joel Brinkley, NYT, April 1, 2000 at A1.
3. One Million Women Sold as Sex Slaves, David Watts, The Times, Mar. 30, 2000 at _.
4. Victoria’s grave waits for her, Brian Murphy, Associated Press, March 2000 [on Moldova].
5. Tragedy of orphans left behind in 'sin town', BBC News, 22 December, 1997.
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_41000/41872.stm (07/21/01)
6. Trafficking in Central Asian women: The rise in vice, The Economist, 14 June 2001.
7. Macedonia Village Is Center Of Europe Web in Sex Trade, NYT, July 28, 2001
8. Thai police nab 23 Uzbekistan women on prostitution charges Deutsche Presse-Agentur, July 5,
2000. (E. Duban has copy in her files)
9. Armenian Women Sent To Prostitution In UAE And Turkey: Report Agence France Presse/ Radio
Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, Friday, 20 July 2001. (describes an IOM report, posted on
Armenialiberty.org and armenianforums.com) (E. Duban has copy in her files)
10. Armenian women recruited for foreign vice, BBC World Service, 21 July, 2001. (E. Duban has
copy in her files)
11. 500 Armenian women to Dubai for prostitution every year, Snark news agency/ BBC World Wide
Monitoring, July 17, 2001. (E. Duban has copy in her files)
12. Human flesh on sale in land the Cold War left behind, Chisinau Obsrver/Guardian Unlimited, April
2, 2001.
13. Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naïve Slavic Women, Michael Specter, The NYT, January 11, 1998.
Ukrainian newspaper articles (translations and summaries)
1. Sex-Slaves of Modern Market, Gorod, (Donetsk weekly paper).
2. A Woman in a Trap, Donbass.
3. Ukrainian goluchechku in Czech boudoirs, Channel 33, July 25, 1998.
4. Trafficking in Women- Course for Grouping, Vechernij Donetsk, July 1998.
5. Girls, do not believe in romantic proposals!, Vinnucka hazeta, July 1998.
6. Voluntarily- To Slavery, Aktsent Subbota, July 4, 1998.
7. Women of Ukraine- Alive Goods, Salon Dona I Basa, July 7, 1998.
8. Sold: By Your or Another’s Will?, Zhizh, July 8, 1998.
9. White Slaves- are not guilty, Channel 33, July 9, 1998.
10. Market of Women-Slaves, Negotsiant, July 8-14, 1998.
11. How are you, Adam’s Rib, Zhensky Mir, July 9-15, 1998.
12. To Slavery- Voluntarily, 7 Days, Vechernij Donetsk, July 6-22, 1998.
13. 100 thousand Ukrainian prostitutes are working abroad, Vinnucka hazeta, July 28, 1998.
14. Love for money blinded her, Dnepr vecherniy, August 8, 1998.
15. Lyoshkas Harem, Dnepr vecherniy, August 14, 1998.
16. The court in Kruvuy Rih city, Populyarnaya hazeta, August 26, 1998.
17. From morning to night in transparent shop-windows, Vinnucka hazeta, September 15, 1998.
18. Sociology: prostitution or sexual slavery, Dnepr vecherniy, September 15, 1998.
VIII. Newsletters
1. United Nations Association of Georgia. 2000. Migrant Quarterly Newsletter: Anti-
Trafficking Multi-Media Awareness Campaign "Be Smart! Be Safe!" September. (07/14/2001)
IX. Email announcements, listserv articles etc.
1. Email article on trafficked Ukrainian women returned to Montenegro (OSCE report)
2. Email article: Rights- Women: Trafficking of Women on the Increase
X. Web Sites/Links - more will be added
1. The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
http://www.protectionproject.org/
Updated: September 2001