Detention of Trafficked Persons in Shelters: A Legal and Policy Analysis by Anne Gallagher and Elaine Pearson
Since 2001, the United States Government has issued annual reports on the situation of human trafficking in every country other than its own identified by the State Department as having a significant trafficking problem. The focus of this article is on the standards that are being used in assessing the response of States to trafficking. The article examines the way in which the US judges the performance of countries while noting that international law already provides detailed and substantive...
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Since 2001, the United States Government has issued annual reports on the situation of human trafficking in every country other than its own identified by the State Department as having a significant trafficking problem. The focus of this article is on the standards that are being used in assessing the response of States to trafficking. The article examines the way in which the US judges the performance of countries while noting that international law already provides detailed and substantive...
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