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Reports

Government Accountability Office (GAO), "Human Trafficking: Monitoring and Evaluation of International Projects Are Limited, but Experts Suggest Improvements," July 2007.

 

GAO, "Human Trafficking: A Strategic Framework Could Help Enhance the Interagency Collaboration Needed to Effectively Combat Trafficking Crimes," July 2007.

 

GAO, "Human Trafficking: Better Data, Strategy, and Reporting Needed to Enhance U.S. Antitrafficking Efforts Abroad," July 2006.

 

U.S. Department of State, "Trafficking in Persons Report 2007."

 

U.S. Department of Justice, "Report on Activities to Combat Human Trafficking: Fiscal Years 2001 , 2005," February 2006.

 

International Labor Organization (ILO), "The Mekong Challenge: Human Trafficking: Redefining Demand," 2005, focuses on what demand is the Mekong region of SEA and research on demand.

 

ILO, "First Hand Knowledge: Voices Across the Mekong," 2005, personal stories of community action against trafficking.

 

Donna M Hughes, "Hiding in Plain Site: A Practical Guide to Identifying Victims of Trafficking in the U.S.," October 2003.

 

Brochures, Media and Other Publications

(leaflet) UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC),excellent overview of trafficking vs smuggling and what trafficking is.

 

(PSA) UNODC, "Three Victims,"(sexual and labor slavery)

 

(PSA) UNODC, excellent PSA on sex trafficking

 

Frontline World Flashpoint, "Moldova: The Price of Sex," a photo exhibit with audio story of women's personal stories about trafficking and forced prostitution

 

Kay Chernush Photography, photographs from her assignment to photo-document trafficking around the world for the U.S. Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons' Annual Report are available on her website.

 

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