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Human Trafficking
within the framework of the ongoing EU work towards comparable information
on crime and victimization.
Also, UNODC research work within the UN-GIFT 47 was implicated in a
Global survey on criminal justice responses. A questionnaire (checklist) had been developed
for data collection through a network of regional consultants and HEUNI
was in charge of collecting data in the European region.
Finally, UNODC research work within the area of crime trends was to be considered:
(a) Trafficking questions within the questionnaire of the Tenth Survey of
Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems; 48 and (b) Development of
operational definitions and trafficking indicators for future data collection (Expert
Group Meeting, held end January 2009).
The above mentioned projects were considered promising, especially with respect
to definitions and indicators. Therefore and after discussion, the ESB group
decided to postpone data collection on human trafficking. It was decided to wait
upon the conclusions and recommendations of these parallel projects before trying
to operationnalize a standard definition of human trafficking in order to integrate
it into an ESB questionnaire.
47 http://www.ungift.org/.
48 http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/crime_survey_tenth.html.