SIREN Trafficking Estimates

Despite the underground and clandestine nature of human trafficking, UNIAP believes it is not impossible to determine the magnitude of the crime. In order to properly target and scale anti-trafficking measures, as well as measure the impact of anti-trafficking interventions, it is imperative to realistically and accurately measure trafficking flows – numbers of victims, their locations, their vulnerability factors, and labour sectors with especially high prevalence of trafficked labour. As in other sectors where hidden populations are difficult to identify, it is the methodologies and resources that are key.

UNIAP’s Trafficking Estimates Initiative provided funding to innovative research partnerships, including international and local academics and NGOs, to explore innovative ways to estimate numbers of trafficked persons in various Mekong environments. The outcomes of the first of these research studies are below, and they will be openly peer reviewed and discussed regionally and nationally in early 2011.

• A Quantitative Analysis on Human Trafficking:
  The Case of An Giang Province, Vietnam
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• UNIAP Trafficking Estimates: A Quantitative Analysis on Human Trafficking: The Case of An Giang Province, Vietnam
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• Estimating Labor Trafficking: A Study of Burmese Migrant Workers in Samut Sakhon, Thailand
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