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EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

The Miami Declaration of Principles on Human Trafficking (15th Anniversary Edition)

The Miami Declaration of Principles on Human Trafficking has guided law and policy nationally and internationally.  The Declaration was developed under the leadership of the Human Trafficking Academy’s founder and director, Dr. Roza Pati, and consists of law and policy recommendations drafted by intergovernmental, governmental, non-governmental and academic experts of national and international stature at an interdisciplinary symposium.  This Declaration was presented by Dr. Pati at the OSCE meeting in Vienna, Austria.

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Migration and Human Trafficking: Tracing Root Causes & Seeking Intensional Solutions (July 2022)

On July 25-29, 2022, participants from coast to coast and around the world attended the 2022 Human Trafficking Academy, Migration and Human Trafficking: Tracing Root Causes & Seeking “Intensional” Solutions, at St. Thomas University College of Law in Miami, Florida. During the final Module of the Academy, plenary sessions consisting of three expert Working Groups provided recommendations that go to the heart of the efforts in seeking intensional solutions to fill in the gaps in three elemental areas of the intersection of migration and human trafficking: the unaccompanied minors, labor protections, overall policies and services. This document consists of their final recommendations.

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Justice at the Door:  Ending Domestic Servitude, Intercultural Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 7 (2012)

Volume 7 of the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review of St. Thomas University College of Law presents Justice at the Door: Ending Domestic Servitude, a collection of articles focused exclusively on ending this particular form of human trafficking.  The corresponding Symposium was held at St. Thomas University College of Law in Miami, Florida, on January 27, 2012.

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International Trafficking in Persons: Suggested Responses to a Scourge of Humankind

On October 18, 2007, Rev. Monsignor Franklyn M. Casale, President Emeritus of St. Thomas University (retired Aug. 2018), testified on international trafficking in persons before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs regarding the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.  His Statement is published in Volume 3 of the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review (2008) of St. Thomas University School of Law.

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Trafficking in Human Beings: A Global Concern, Intercultural Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 1 (2006)

The inaugural issue of the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review of St. Thomas University College of Law, Trafficking in Human Beings: A Global Concern, presents a collection of articles focused on domestic and international solutions to human trafficking.  It features the Miami Declaration of Principles on Human Trafficking, which has guided law and policy nationally and internationally.  The corresponding Symposium was held at St. Thomas University College of Law in Miami, Florida, on February 10, 2005.

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Global Regulation of Corporate Conduct: Effective Pursuit of a Slave-Free Supply Chain

Global Regulation of Corporate Conduct: Effective Pursuit of a Slave-Free Supply Chain by Dr. Roza Pati, founder and director of The John J. Brunetti Human Trafficking Academy, was published in American University Law Review, Vol. 68, Iss. 5, Art. 8, in 2019.

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Handbook on Human Trafficking, Public Health & the Law (Chapter 9)

This handbook is the result of the Spring School on “Public Health, Human Trafficking and the Law” funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as an ERASMUS INTENSIVE PROGRAMME, held in March 2013 in Siena, Italy.  The aim of the intensive program was to present and analyze the problem of human trafficking alongside with the perspective of the New Haven School in order to recommend concrete solutions. For this purpose, the trafficking of humans has been explored in relation to public health and the European law, in close cooperative between the participating students and experts in medicine, social sciences and law.  Click below to download Chapter 9 – The Siena Principles on Human Trafficking and Public Health, which was edited by the Academy’s Founder and Director, Dr. Roza Pati.

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Guidelines for Educators & Students

Human Trafficking is a major concern for schools and students.  School administrators, teachers, and students can play a critical role in the identification of victims of human trafficking in the school environment and extracurricular activities.  The Guidelines for Educators and Students provides information on identifying and helping victims of human trafficking in this context.

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Guidelines for the Religious Community

The Guidelines for the Religious Community provides information on how the religious community can identify and help victims of human trafficking.

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Guidelines for Healthcare Professionals

Human Trafficking is a global public health problem.  The Guidelines for Healthcare Professionals provides information on identifying and helping victims of human trafficking in the context of the healthcare profession.

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Third Party Resources

Pastoral Orientations on Human Trafficking

Pope Francis attaches enormous importance to the plight of the millions of men, women and children who are trafficked and enslaved.  In 2018, The Migrants & Refugees Section (M&R) held two consultations with Church leaders, scholars and experienced practitioners and partner organizations working in the field. Participants exchanged experiences and viewpoints, addressing relevant aspects of the phenomenon. The Church’s full response was considered, and this six-months process resulted in the Pastoral Orientations on Human Trafficking, which provides a reading of Human Trafficking and an understanding that motivate and sustain the much-needed long-term struggle.

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Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People

In Dallas, 2002, at their Annual Meeting, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops drafted a landmark document in response to the crisis of sexual abuse of children in the Church. This document, setting forth their agreed upon responsibilities in combating the problem, is entitled the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. The Charter is a comprehensive set of procedures originally to address allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy.

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UNODC University Module Series: Trafficking in Persons / Smuggling of Migrants

Through the Education for Justice (E4J) initiative, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has developed a series of university modules and other tools to assist academics teaching on some of today’s most crucial threats, including 14 modules on trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants.  Thanks to the inputs received from more than 100 academics from all around the world, the modules’ contents are substantively robust. This strength is reinforced with a series of illustrative examples and exercises aimed at generating debates and consolidating knowledge among students.

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KidSmartz

KidSmartz is a child safety program by NCMEC that educates families about preventing abduction and empowers kids in grades K-5 to practice safer behaviors. This program offers resources to help parents, caregivers, and teachers protect kids by teaching and practicing the 4 Rules of Personal Safety using tips, printable activities, quizzes, articles, music, videos, and more.

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NetSmartz

NetSmartz can help you create a dynamic and engaging Internet safety curriculum.  NCMEC’s resources for educators offer multiple ways to engage students, parents and communities in important lessons in digital citizenship and online safety.  Empower your students to be safer online with NCMEC’s free collection of teaching materials for families and students in grades K-12.

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Trafficking in Persons Report (2023)

The annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report is the U.S. Government’s principal diplomatic tool to engage foreign governments on human trafficking.  It is also the world’s most comprehensive resource of governmental anti-trafficking efforts and reflects the U.S. Government’s commitment to global leadership on this key human rights and law enforcement issue.

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National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking, White House (Dec. 2021)

The interagency National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking released by President Biden in December 2021 focuses on the pillars of: prevention, protection, prosecution, and crosscutting approaches and institutional effectiveness.

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National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking, U.S. Department of Justice (Jan. 2022)

The Justice Department’s new National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking released in January 2022 aligns with the foundational pillars of the President’s 2022 National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking: prevention of human trafficking; prosecution of human trafficking cases; protection of human trafficking victims and survivors; and partnership at every level of government.

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United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking Annual Report (2022)

The U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking comprises 11 Survivor Leaders who bring their expertise and experience to advise and provide recommendations to the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF) to improve federal anti-trafficking policies. In this report, the Council presents recommendations addressed to U.S. federal agencies.

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Freedom First: Celebrating 20 Years of Progress to Combat Human Trafficking (2020)

The 2020 Freedom First Retrospective celebrates 20 years of progress in combating human trafficking, since the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 and the adoption of the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, known commonly as the “Palermo Protocol.” The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office), which was created by mandate of the TVPA, is committed to pressing for “Freedom First” knowing that individuals must first be free from traffickers in order to exercise all their inalienable rights.

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Responsible Sourcing Tool

The Responsible Sourcing Tool is a resource funded by U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons in collaboration with Verité, Made in a Free World, and the Aspen Institute to provide a resource for companies, federal contractors, federal procurement and contracting professionals, advocates, investors, consumers and others to rid supply chains of human trafficking.

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Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage (Geneva, 2022)

The global and regional estimates of modern slavery presented in this report were developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Walk Free, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The estimates are based on a jointly developed methodology: the 2021 calculations are derived from multiple data sources, as no single source was sufficiently reliable. The principal sources are data from nationally representative household surveys – 68 forced labour surveys and 75 forced marriage surveys – jointly conducted by ILO and Walk Free, as well as the Counter Trafficking Data Collaborative (CTDC) anonymized case dataset on victims of trafficking collected by IOM and its partners in the process of providing protection and assistance services to trafficked persons. The 2021 Global Estimates indicate there are 50 million people in situations of modern slavery on any given day, either forced to work against their will or in a marriage that they were forced into.

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10th General Report on GRETA’s ACTIVITIES, Council of Europe (2021)

The 10th General Report on the activities of the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) covers the period of January 1 to December 31, 2020.  Pursuant to Article 36 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, GRETA is set up to monitor the implementation of this Convention by the Parties.

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Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, UNODC (2020)

The 2020 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons is the fifth of its kind mandated by the General Assembly through the 2010 United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. It covers 148 countries and provides an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at global, regional and national levels, based primarily on trafficking cases detected between 2016 and 2019. As UNODC has been systematically collecting data on trafficking in persons for more than a decade, trend information is presented for a broad range of indicators.

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2020 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor

The U.S. Department of Labor’s annual Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor focuses on the efforts of certain U.S. trade beneficiary countries and territories to eliminate the worst forms of child labor through legislation, enforcement mechanisms, policies and social programs.

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Ending Child Labour, Forced Labour & Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains (2019)

This 2019 Report presents the joint research findings and conclusions on child labour, forced labour and human trafficking linked to global supply chains from the ILO, the OECD, IOM and UNICEF.

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List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) “maintains a list of products and their source countries which it has a reasonable basis to believe are produced by forced or indentured child labor, pursuant to Executive Order 13126. This List is intended to ensure that U.S. federal agencies do not procure goods made by forced or indentured child labor.  Under procurement regulations, federal contractors who supply products on the List must certify that they have made a good faith effort to determine whether forced or indentured child labor was used to produce the items supplied.”

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Trafficking in Persons in the Context of Armed Conflict, UNODC (2018)

In December 2016, the United Nations Security Council requested the Secretary-General to take steps to improve the collection of data, monitoring and analysis of trafficking in persons in the context of armed conflict. In response, UNODC prepared Trafficking in Persons in the Context of Armed Conflict to provide special insight on this issue.  The analysis is based on an extensive desk review of available literature, court cases from the international criminal courts and tribunals and expert interviews with United Nations peacekeeping personnel. The result is an overview of trafficking in persons and its direct and indirect links to armed conflict.  This publication is Booklet No. 2 of UNODC’s Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (2018).

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Statewide Council on Human Trafficking Florida Annual Report (2022)

The Annual Report of the Statewide Council on Human Trafficking is mandated by the Florida Legislature. The Annual Report summarizes the accomplishments of the Council during the preceding fiscal year and makes recommendations for a comprehensive, strategic approach to combat human trafficking in Florida.

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Third Party Applications

ILAB’s Sweat & Toil: Child Labor, Forced Labor, & Human Trafficking Around the World

The U.S. Department of Labor’s App Sweat & Toil: Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking Around the World is a comprehensive resource developed by ILAB documenting child labor and forced labor worldwide.

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ILAB’s Comply Chain: Business Tools for Labor Compliance in Global Supply Chains

Child and forced labor in supply chains present serious and material risks to companies and industries. To help mitigate these risks, the U.S. Department of Labor developed the Comply Chain: Business Tools for Labor Compliance in Global Supply Chains App.

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Slavery Footprint

Through a grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, the NGO Made in a Free World developed Slavery Footprint, a web- and mobile-based application that allows users to understand how their lives may intersect with modern slavery. Slavery Footprint has been visited by over 25 million users in 190 countries since its launch in 2011.

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