Canada's Anti-Human Trafficking Measures critically assesses the scope, impact, and progression of federal and provincial anti-human trafficking measures over the past twenty years. In 2000, the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons established an international framework for anti-human trafficking action. As a party to the protocol, Canada implemented an array of legislative and policy measures, including action plans, awareness campaigns, personnel training, and other anti-human trafficking initiatives. This book is the result of collaboration between activists, lawyers, front-line practitioners, and scholars in immigration and refugee law, human rights, public health, social justice, sociology, and anthropology. Together, they provide a comprehensive, critical overview of the theoretical, policy, and applied aspects of Canadian anti-human trafficking efforts. Those efforts face significant challenges, including inconsistent legal definitions that hinder effective enforcement; a focus on criminalization that overshadows the structural drivers of exploitation, such as colonialism and discriminatory immigration policies; and measures that often leave survivors in precarious situations. Canada's Anti-Human Trafficking Measures showcases promising practices and innovative approaches adopted in other jurisdictions and advances a transformative approach grounded in human rights and survivor empowerment. It calls for clear legal frameworks, transparency, community-led initiatives, and the adoption of comprehensive models capable of addressing the structural complexities of human trafficking.
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