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Law enforcement

The collective name for the efforts of enforcing and ensuring observance, obedience to the law.

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adolescent

Human rights; Human Trafficking

Young person aged 10 to 18 years. The term is used to refer to children who have reached puberty but are still under 18.

arranged marriage

Human rights; Human Trafficking

A union, orchestrated by a third party, in which both spouses give free and full consent.

assistance

Human rights; Human Trafficking

Measures, programmes and services aimed at the recovery of trafficked persons that might include, but are not limited to, appropriate housing; medical, psychological and material ...

assisted victim of trafficking

Human rights; Human Trafficking

A person who has been identified as a victim of trafficking and who has agreed to accept assistance from a nongovernmental, governmental, international or other relevant ...

best interests assessment

Human rights; Human Trafficking

It “is an assessment made by staff taking action with regard to individual children, except when a best interest determination (see supra) procedure is required, designed to ...

best interests determination

Human rights; Human Trafficking

It “describes the formal process with strict procedural safeguards designed to determine the child’s best interests for particularly important decisions affecting the child. It ...

boy child

Human rights; Human Trafficking

The term refers to children under age of 18 only, not to young adult men. The word child is used in accordance with the definition contained in Article 1 of the UN Convention on ...