This two-volume report synthesizes the Asian Developments Bank's extensive research on the topic of human trafficking in Asia. Undertaken to help Asian nations better understand the dynamics of trafficking and to identify the root causes of the practice, this work features analysis of regional legal frameworks, contributing factors, and vulnerabilities. A supplementary report, "Guide for Integrating Trafficking Concerns, provides a series of steps that could be employed to limit trafficking.

The UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2016 is the third of its kind mandated by the United Nations General Assembly. In July 2010, the UNGA adopted the Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. The Report covers and provides an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at the global, regional and national levels, based on trafficking cases detected mainly between 2012 and 2014. It looks at links between trafficking in persons, migration and conflict, and how refugees may be particularly vulnerable to being trafficked. The worldwide response to trafficking in persons, particularly in terms of criminalization and prosecution of trafficking crimes, is also a focus of this edition of the Global Report. Also included are the Country Profiles.

A South Asian sub-regional consultative workshop on Combating Trafficking in Children for Labour ExploitationÓ was held in Oct., 1998. It was attended by participants from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan & Sri Lanka. The objectives were to: present the national studies on trafficking in children for labor exploitation in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan & Sri Lanka; share experiences among countries on what has been done at the policy & operational level to combat trafficking in children; & identify relevant activities at the national, bi-lateral & sub-regional levels, as well as action programs that could be integrated in the U.N. framework for action.