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Human rights

Fundamental and universal rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled. They consist of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights that States are obliged to fully respect according to common standards ratified by national and international legislation.

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migration

Human rights; Human Trafficking

Migration is the general movement of people who leave their place of origin in a free search for a better life or who feel compelled to leave it. Migration for employment is the ...

National Referral Mechanism or System (NRM)

Human rights; Human Trafficking

“It is a co-operative framework through which state actors fulfil their obligations to protect and promote the human rights of trafficked persons, co-ordinating their efforts in a ...

nondiscrimination principle

Human rights; Human Trafficking

Article 3 of the Council of Europe Convention reiterates the same principle as many other human rights treaties, specifying that implementation of the provisions of the Convention ...

trafficked child

Human rights; Human Trafficking

Any person under eighteen who is recruited, transported, transferred, harboured or received for the purpose of exploitation, either within or outside a country, even if no element ...

trafficked person

Human rights; Human Trafficking

The term “trafficked person” is used as a general term, referring to those who have been trafficked and are entitled to assistance and protection on the very basis of that fact, ...

trafficker

Human rights; Human Trafficking

A person who is involved in recruiting or moving a child or adult with the intention to expose them to exploitation. A ‘trafficker’ is distinguished from a ‘smuggler’ or other ...

trafficking in human beings

Human rights; Human Trafficking

The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or reception of persons, including the exchange or transfer of control over those persons, by means of the threat or use of ...