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IOFA Resources

Smooth Flight Video
A Trafficking Prevention Film for Youth

This 30-minute training film shares the hopes, dreams and experiences of youth from Latvia as they go abroad in search of work, adventure, and opportunity. This film features two re-enactments of actual interviews with young women who were victims of human trafficking. Featuring popular music and television personalities, this film specifically targets youth ages 14-25 and is part of an educational curriculum designed to prevent human trafficking.

Smooth Flight Training Manual
A Guide to Preventing Youth Trafficking

Published by the Project for the Prevention of Adolescent Trafficking (PPAT) and generously funded by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

Smooth Flight: A Guide to Preventing Youth Trafficking provides teachers, youth counselors, or anyone who works with or cares about youth with a comprehensive approach to preventing young people from becoming victims of human trafficking. The guide is a simple and practical tool for understanding the complex problem of human trafficking and presents the issue in easy to understand language while providing step-by-step instructions for empowering and educating youth about the problem of human trafficking. The guide shares best practices for youth trafficking prevention programs from the Project for the Prevention of Adolescent Trafficking (PPAT), and from other international experts including UNICEF, IOM, and La Strada.

Preliminary Global Assessment of Shelters Serving Victims of Human Trafficking

This assessment details how shelters serving victims of human trafficking worldwide operate. It identifies target populations of the shelters and investigates the physical set up of the facilities, funding sources and trends in services provided. The assessment concludes with recommended best practices for shelters serving victims of human trafficking.

For more information, please call IOFA at 773.404.8831.

Other Resources

SPECIFIC TO YOUTH

Global Migration Perspectives Child Trafficking: the worst face of the world

International Labor Organization Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour

Optional Protocol to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

Terre Des Hommes Child Trafficking: A Contemporary form of slavery

Terre des Hommes "Kids as Commodities? Child trafficking and what to do about it" Publication

Terre des Hommes "Lost Kids, lost futures The European Union's response to Child Trafficking" Publication

UN Special Session for Children Child Trafficking

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

UN High Commissioner Report for Human Rights to the Economic and Social Council Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking

Guideline 8 Special measures for the protection and support of child victims of trafficking

UNICEF's Guidelines for Protection of the Rights of Children Victims of Trafficking

Unbearable to the human heart: Child Trafficking and Action to Eliminate it