Assessment of Trafficking in Human Beings for Labour Exploitation Purposes in Central America

  • Start Date
    2010
  • End Date
    2014
  • Project Status
    Completed
  • Project Type
    Counter Trafficking Projects
  • Budget Amount (USD)
    148998.00
  • Coverage
    Regional
  • Year
    2009
  • IDF Region
    Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Projects ID
    CT.0441
  • Benefiting Member States
    Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama

The project aims:
-To identify, systematize and analyze existing information available on human trafficking for labor exploitation in the Central American countries;
-To address existing knowledge gaps in this field and produce a clear overview on possible cases, structures, characteristics, dynamics and routes of trafficking in human beings for labor exploitation in Central America;
-To detect specific needs of victims of human trafficking for labor exploitation in the target countries;
-To understand and address human trafficking in its broader context of labor and migration law and policies; and
-To make recommendations to relevant governmental and non-governmental organizations in the Central American countries on how to better address the problem and its victims through effective policies and programmatic responses.