Trafficking as a Criminal Enterprise

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The current project is being implemented in partnership with TRILATERAL RESEARCH & CONSULTING LLP (UK) – leading organization, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL (Belgium), TILBURG UNIVERSITY (the Netherlands), THE COUNCIL OF THE BALTIC SEA STATES SECRETARIAT (Sweden), THE NATIONAL AGENCY AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (Romania), CYPRUS POLICE (Cyprus) and LA STRADA INTERNATIONAL (the Netherlands).

TRACE aims to support stakeholders in combating and disrupting human trafficking, one of the largest criminal enterprises in the world, by assessing and consolidating information surrounding the perpetrators and the wider trafficking enterprise. The project will focus on the activities of the perpetrators by developing an understanding of the structure, social relationships, modus operandi, travel routes and technologies associated with different types of human trafficking. Based on the analysis of perpetrators’ behaviour TRACE seeks to be able to better identify who is in danger of being trafficked and furthermore, who is vulnerable to becoming involved in human trafficking (including those who may have been victims themselves).

In 2015 experts from the “Animus Association” Foundation  worked on the following thematic work packages, part of the “TRACE” project (TRACE – Trafficking as a Criminal Enterprise):

WP2: The Act of Human Trafficking

. Contribution to “Report on Key Aspects of the Act of Human Trafficking” (geographic trajectories and ways of recruitment); the report also provides and expert analysis of court practices;

WP3: The Traffickers

. Conducting field research: interview questionnaires for persons convicted for trafficking in people and contribution to “Report on Specificities and Motivation of Traffickers and the Social Communication among Them”;

. Participation in a seminar, presenting the report, held in June in Brussels, Belgium;

WP4: The Role of Technology in Human Trafficking

. Conducting research of secondary sources and contribution to “Report on the Role of Existing and Newly Existing technologies in Human Trafficking”;

. Participation in a seminar, presenting the report, held in September in Tilburg, the Netherlands;

WP5:  Trafficking as a global phenomenon: political and social economic aspects

. A leading partner in the development of “Report on the Ways in Which Socio-economic, Political and Criminal Tendencies Affect Trafficking in People”;

. Organizing a seminar, presenting the report, held in November in Sofia, Bulgaria.