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| Participants at the Lillie, France Trafficking Conference (Source: UNHCR) |
UNHCR News (Lille) – The UN Refugee Agency, along with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), held a conference with French government officials and UK law enforcement/NGO agencies about the growth of human trafficking activity in the region and need for victim support. The UN Refugee Agency and the IOM stressed the need to focus on traveling children vulnerable to trafficking while French and UK officials discussed how Northern France acts as a funnel for trafficking activities into the UK. French and UK NGO’s stressed the need to maintain support services and protection for victims in order to deter re-trafficking of the same victims. The NGO’s also stressed that migrant workers and women from Eastern Europe, China, Vietnam and other Asian nations are likely to be exploited and transported in along the Northern European/French/UK route.
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(Reliability: 8/10)
Comment: (Source Reliability: No bias or accuracy issues with this source. The primary fault with this source is the lack of detail on discussions about the Northern France/U.K. human trafficking route. No information is provided as to how strong this route is or why it is utilized. Additionally, no information is provided as to the level of priority French and U.K. officials will provide to deterring the use of this route. The lack information with respect to the French/U.K. commitment to deterring the Northern France route limits analysis on the effectiveness of U.N. conferences.)
Analysis: As has been demonstrated in the need for trafficking information in Laos, the exchange of trafficking strategy and information by international officials has the same developmental effect on trafficking combat. The exchange of information allows officials to learn of new combat strategies and developments in criminal trends. However, the greatest benefit of U.N. conferences is the demonstration of new and important developments which may not have been known by participants. The two previous conferences (the September Asia-Pacific conference and this month's NGO conference) were all successful at bringing attention to new issues and recommendations to participants and other interested parties. As this trend continues in this latest conference, its highly likely that the conclusions and information developed at the conference and subsequent conferences will lead to eventual incorporation in regional and national policies, legislation, and tactics against trafficking and motivation to continue to attend these conferences will continue to exist. Moreover, U.N. conferences will highly likely produce at least one new focus or aspect of trafficking in the mentality of participants and other interested parties.
However, another trend is visible among these U.N. conferences with respect to implementation of conclusions and recommendations. Both the Asia-Pacific and NGO conferences did not have evidence within them which exhibited a level of commitment for execution on conclusion and recommendations. The same trend exists with this conference as participants did not mention any level of commitment to the execution of any of these conclusions and recommendations. Subsequently, one can not make a clear prediction as to the operational effectiveness of this or previous conferences. With a quantifiable statement of commitment of commitment, one can make a clear prediction as to what level of execution participants will take to implement conclusions. However, one can only state at this point that future conferences and national actions will determine the operational effectiveness of U.N. conferences.
Comment: (Source Reliability: No bias or accuracy issues with this source. The primary fault with this source is the lack of detail on discussions about the Northern France/U.K. human trafficking route. No information is provided as to how strong this route is or why it is utilized. Additionally, no information is provided as to the level of priority French and U.K. officials will provide to deterring the use of this route. The lack information with respect to the French/U.K. commitment to deterring the Northern France route limits analysis on the effectiveness of U.N. conferences.)
Analysis: As has been demonstrated in the need for trafficking information in Laos, the exchange of trafficking strategy and information by international officials has the same developmental effect on trafficking combat. The exchange of information allows officials to learn of new combat strategies and developments in criminal trends. However, the greatest benefit of U.N. conferences is the demonstration of new and important developments which may not have been known by participants. The two previous conferences (the September Asia-Pacific conference and this month's NGO conference) were all successful at bringing attention to new issues and recommendations to participants and other interested parties. As this trend continues in this latest conference, its highly likely that the conclusions and information developed at the conference and subsequent conferences will lead to eventual incorporation in regional and national policies, legislation, and tactics against trafficking and motivation to continue to attend these conferences will continue to exist. Moreover, U.N. conferences will highly likely produce at least one new focus or aspect of trafficking in the mentality of participants and other interested parties.
However, another trend is visible among these U.N. conferences with respect to implementation of conclusions and recommendations. Both the Asia-Pacific and NGO conferences did not have evidence within them which exhibited a level of commitment for execution on conclusion and recommendations. The same trend exists with this conference as participants did not mention any level of commitment to the execution of any of these conclusions and recommendations. Subsequently, one can not make a clear prediction as to the operational effectiveness of this or previous conferences. With a quantifiable statement of commitment of commitment, one can make a clear prediction as to what level of execution participants will take to implement conclusions. However, one can only state at this point that future conferences and national actions will determine the operational effectiveness of U.N. conferences.
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