The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has released a study of organized crime in Southeast Asia. It confirms that economic disparities within the region have created both a demand for and supply of cheap labour, driving growth in human trafficking. The report found that the trafficking of women and girls for sexual […]

The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence Against Children has published their thematic report on Ending Violence Against Children by 2030. The report stresses that the 2030 Agenda treats violence against children as a cross-cutting concern and includes a distinct Sustainable Development Goal target 16.2, which calls for the elimination […]

FIFA established guiding principles and minimum requirements to ensure child protection as part of its overall vision to safeguard children. FIFA toolkit aims to support the implementation of the FIFA Forward 2.0 Development Programme which obliges its 211 member associations (MAs) to take measures to protect and safeguard children from potential abuses and to protect […]

The recently published 2019 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report calls upon all governments to acknowledge human trafficking not only across borders but within borders of a country. It stresses that “governments may find it easier to blame sex trafficking on those who come to their countries to engage in foreign sex tourism than to address […]

Parliamentarians from ASEAN Member States have agreed to take steps to tackle the growing problem of child sexual exploitation in the context of travel and tourism. Meeting in Malaysia this week as part of the 10th ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) Caucus, lawmakers agreed to a 24-point “check-list,” which will guide future legal interventions to protect […]

ARLEMP Program is a partnership between the Australian Federal Police, the Vietnam Ministry of Public Security and RMIT University. It is a training program sponsored by the Australian Federal Police with the aim of enhancing regional law enforcement forces’ capacity to address non-traditional security threats and transnational crimes. ARLEMP 49 opened on 11th June in […]

Ms. Najat Maalla M’jid of Morocco has been appointed a Special Representative on Violence Against Children at the level of Assistant of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, which was announced on 30 May. A medical doctor specialized in paediatrics, Ms. M’jid has devoted her life over the last three decades to promoting and protecting children’s […]

Tourism is high on the agenda for Uganda with it experiencing the highest growth rate in tourism across Africa in 2011. Across the continent tourism industry has more than tripled in the last two decades with numbers of tourist’s arrivals set to more than double again by 2030. ECPAT International’s latest report finds that voluntourism has […]

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) announced at the end of last week that it is establishing a global taskforce to help the industry prevent and combat human trafficking – including of children for sexual purposes. Human trafficking is worth $150 billion annually and affects more than 40 million people worldwide. An estimated 5.5 million of […]

The resolution on “Formulating and Implementing Project Based Initiative on Strengthening Legal Frameworks to Protect Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism” mandates and supports the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) Secretariat to take action as well as to create engagement with regional and international communities on child protection from sexual exploitation in travel and […]