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Exploring Human Rights in the Context of Enforcement-Based Anti-trafficking in Persons Responses

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Responses to human trafficking are situated within a transnational criminal law framework that aims to address criminal actions through prosecution, while promoting the inclusion of human rights to prevent trafficking and protect and assist victims of trafficking. Responses to trafficking have been critiqued for overemphasizing criminal prosecution at the expense of human rights. This chapter explores the limits of enforcement-based and prosecution-oriented approaches from a human rights lens. Beyond a simple dichotomy between human rights versus prosecution, the chapter considers how anti-trafficking notions of prevention and protection also reinforce enforcement-based responses that result in ongoing violations of human rights.

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  1. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

    Julie Kaye

  2. School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC, Canada

    Hayli Millar

  3. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Tamara O’Doherty

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Kaye, J., Millar, H., O’Doherty, T. (2019). Exploring Human Rights in the Context of Enforcement-Based Anti-trafficking in Persons Responses. In: Winterdyk, J., Jones, J. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63192-9_36-1

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