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Vulnerability, Human Trafficking & COVID-19

Published: 31 July 2020

The paper authored by ASEAN-ACT’s Victim Rights Researcher Dr Marika McAdam is titled “Vulnerability, Human Trafficking and COVID-19” and covers the potential impacts that COVID-19 may have on human trafficking, highlights potential government policy responses and examples of good practice.

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ASEAN-ACT Partner’s resource portal

This portal includes research, resources and tools to support government, private sector and civil society to continue their counter trafficking work in times of crisis.

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Human traffickers are men.

Trafficking in persons always includes some form of travel or transportation across borders.

Trafficking in persons often looks like the movies, where someone is kidnapped and brought to another country to be exploited.

Trafficking in persons (human trafficking) and people smuggling are the same thing.

There’s nothing I can do to stop trafficking in persons.

Trafficking doesn’t impact me.

Trafficking in persons is mostly about commercial sex exploitation.

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