Interim
Activity
Report
Prepared by: Olga
Pyshchulina
Date: April – August
2005
Aim of the
project
The objectives of the
project are to study
general factors for illegal migration and human trafficking, and
factors which facilitate a criminal dimension. Specifies
and updates the human trafficking definition in Ukrainian legal
practice,
particular meaning of the term “sexual exploitation”
“border crossing”, “consent”, or “systematic”
and “organized group”, differences between “human trafficking”
“smuggling”
illegal migration.
According to the
timeline during
1st stage of research the
next kind of activities were
done:
Document analysis
- Review
of national laws on human trafficking of
European member states and the USA
- US
State Department, Trafficking
in Persons
Report 2003, Washington 2003
- Protocol
to Prevent, Suppress and
Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing
the United
Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, (“Protocol”),
G.A.
res. 55/25, annex II, 55 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49) at 60, U.N. Doc.
A/45/49
(Vol. I) (2001), Art. 3
- Analysis
of Criminal Code of Ukraine:
article 124-1 (old), 148 (new)
- Comprehensive
Program on Fighting of Trafficking in Humans, By the resolution
of the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, 06/05/2001
- Relevant
lliterature
and research results
concerning human trafficking
Contacts and
collaboration with relevant governmental institutions and
intergovernmental
organizations
Ministry
of Internal Affair of Ukraine, relevant department
- Verhovna Rada of Ukraine, Anticorruption
Committee
- Ministry of Labour and Social Politics
- UNDP, Equal Opportunity Program
- IOM
- ILO
- Transnational Crime and Corruption Centres (Washington,
DC - USA; Kharkov, Odessa - Ukraine, Moscow, Vladivostoc - Russia, Tbilisi – Georgia)
- La-Strada Ukraine and other regional NGO
Participation in conferences and seminars
“Legislation
in the countries of origin, transit
and destination”, Roundtable,
13-16, May 2005, Kharkov, University of Internal Affair
- Anti
Trafficking Regional Program, Chakvi, Tbilisi, Georgia, 11 – 15, July
2005, OSCE, PHDS.
- “Identification
Mechanisms of trafficking victims and traffickers, investigation
technologies”, Roundtable , Ministry of Internal Affair, IOM, 5, June,
2005
- Development
a system of information exchange between
the countries of origin, transit and destination – Meeting in
Prosecutor Office of Ukraine with law enforcement from countries.
- Field Research
- Survey. To determine the
scale of the
modern criminal transportation of persons it was surveyed various
categories of
people, including businessmen specializing in wholesale and retail in
different
region of Ukraine (East: Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetck, Lugansk,
West: Lviv,
Ternopol, Uzhgorod, Center - Kiev) (800
respondents);
- Expert interview was done (70 person);
- Data processing;
- Case documentation
3. Publication
- “Globalization and illegal labor migration issues”
“Strategichna Panorama”, NISS, 2005
- “Comprehensive Program on Fighting of Trafficking in Human”
Policy Paper, National Institute for Strategic Studiers, May,
2005
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