If one doesn't understand something stated in the OP, tell me and I'll tell you.
Information regarding certain terms: Tier 1/2/2-watch list/3, basically, what these mean:
Tier 1 (Full compliance with the minimum standards of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA))
Tier 2 (Significant efforts to comply with TVPA)
Tier 2 Watch List (Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards AND a) The absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing; or b) There is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; or c) The determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year)
Tier 3 (No efforts to comply with TVPA)
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) can be found
hereTypes of Trafficking: Bonded Labor-A form of labor where a person works to pay off a debt through loans or work, and the repayment will usually be greater than the amount owed, to keep a person in labor.
Forced Labor-When an individual is forced to work against their will, generally under the threat of violence to themselves or their loved ones. This is the most common type of trafficking that happens to men.
Sex Trafficking-Forcing victims to be in sexual relationships, usually for monetary gains and typically affects vulnerable women and children.
(Please note, prostitution =/= sex trafficking, but prostitution can lead to sex trafficking)
Source country-A country that supplies places with humans to traffic.
Transit country-A country that people go through to get to the destination country.
Destination country-The destination for the victim being trafficked.
Definition:
The United Nations defines Human Trafficking as: “Trafficking in persons” shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, by the means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.
Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs;
The consent of the victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in paragraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used.
I recently had to look at Human Trafficking for a Model United Nations conference I went to. As I was representing Thailand, some of the things I will post in my Position Paper will be rather Thai-centric, but, I do have information on some European Countries, as the topic was Trafficking in Europe. If anybody has any other information that could potentially go into the OP and could add the discussion, feel free to PM me, or just post it in the topic.
Anyway, here is my position paper:
Thailand-Tier 2 country (as of 2007 on the United State’s Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report for not fully complying with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s minimum standard for the elimination of trafficking but making significant efforts to do so. There are even reports of local government official who are complicit in the human trafficking.)
Penalties in Thailand: Sexual trafficking-imprisonment of a 1 year to life in prison. Fines of 50-1000 USD.
There are no Thai laws that criminalize labor trafficking of men.
Prosecution- Thai Government reported 88 arrests in cases against traffickers in the period from Sept. 2005 to February 2007, involving a total of 11 victims.
Thailand experiences problems with human trafficking as well and sympathizes with countries affected by this. Russia is a major source of human trafficking-and one that also traffics men, women, and children to and from Thailand to work in Eastern Europe.
Thailand is a source, transit, and destination country for human trafficking.
Thailand has passed anti-trafficking laws which have seen success. Thailand believes that imposing more of these laws, along with stricter border control, could reduce rate of trafficking in Europe. This will be enforced by legislatures and border security guards.
The United Nations defines trafficking and smuggling as follows: “Trafficking in persons” shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, by the means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.
Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs;
The consent of the victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in paragraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used.
In General, each year, an estimated amount of 600-800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders and the trade is growing.
As many as 27 million people may labor today as victims of human trafficking.
70% of all humans trafficked are female, and 50% are children.
Russia is considered a Tier 2 watch-list country , and many countries west of it are tier 2 countries.
There may be 270,000 victims of human trafficking in the EU. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, countries such as Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine have become the major source countries for trafficking of women and children.
In Russia alone there is an estimated one million illegal immigrants who are victims of forced labor, which is a form of trafficking.
In Ukraine, a survey done by the NGO (Non government office), La Strada Ukraine, in 2001-2003 based on a sample of 106 women being trafficked out of Ukraine found that 3% were under 18. And, in 2004, the U.S. State Department reported that incidents of minors being trafficked were increasing. It is estimated that half a million Ukrainian women were trafficked abroad since 1991 (80% of the unemployed in Ukraine are women.)
In Germany, trafficking of women from Eastern Europe is generally organized by people from that same region. In 2008, authorities identified 676 sex trafficking victims, compared with 689 in 2007, and 96 victims of forced labor in 2008 than the 101 of the previous year.
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Some facts about Trafficking.
According the UN, over 2.5 million people are trafficked each year across the globe, resulting in a global market of nearly
three billion dollars. Because of this, Human Trafficking is one of the largest global criminal activities, second to the drug trade. There are a few different types of trafficking, Bonded Labor, Forced Labor, and Sex trafficking.* (these will be explained in the 'terms' section)
Currently, in the EU alone, there are over 270,000 victims of trafficking. This is only the reported cases, and this number has been rising dramatically since the 1990s' After the fall of the Soviet Union, it became a lot easier to travel across Europe. This leads to former members of the Soviet Bloc, like Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Russia, becoming a major supplier of both traffickers and victims.
Many countries, like Thailand and Russia, are source*, transit*, and destination* countries.
Many people in the countries are trafficked because of the poor living conditions, poverty, and unemployment rate. Moldova has a 68% unemployment rate for women, Ukraine an 80% rate. While many countries in Eastern Europe have become a point of origin for human trafficking, countries in Western Europe (Greece, Britain, Belgium, and Germany), are destinations. In 2007, Belgium prosecuted 418 cases, Germany had 698, and Spain 1,1480. Please note that these are only the reported cases, and estimates say that any one country can have about 13,000 victims in it.
Questions for answer:
What can the UN do to combat Human Trafficking in Europe, where a majority of the international humans trafficked originated from?
How will this be enforced, and by whom?
If you were leading a country, what actions would you take to ensure that this problem would go down in number? 
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