Law Enforcement Manual– Illicit Massage Business Toolkit

Illicit Massage Businesses (IMBs) use the cover of a legitimate service to engage in prostitution and often human trafficking, by using force, fraud or coercion to compel the women working there to provide sexual services to the buyers who patronize these places. IMBs make the communities they inhabit less safe, and, if not quickly addressed, can grow to become an intractable drain on law enforcement resources. This manual details methods law enforcement can use to decrease or eradicate IMBs within the communities they serve.

This manual also describes in detail how to effectively employ existing statutes and regulations to eradicate IMBs. Further, the guide provides best practices for engaging with the victims trapped in IMBs, including how to interview and work with survivors using victim-centred, trauma-informed methods.

Law Enforcement Manual– Illicit Massage Business Toolkit - Children at Risk, 2019 DOWNLOAD

Forced Labor: Actions Needed to Prevent the Availability of At-Risk Goods in DOD’s Commissaries and Exchanges

Guidance

The Department of Defense (DOD) has some policies and processes in place to prevent the resale of goods produced through forced labor in its commissaries and exchanges. However, despite their generally common business of providing reduced- priced gr...Read More

TAGS: Due Diligence Informal Sector Construction & Security Services Garments & Textiles Tourism, Hospitality & Recreational Services Domestic Work/ Servitude Healthcare/ Pharmaceuticals Financial sector Extractives & Mining Agriculture, Horticulture & Landscaping Information and Communications Technology Aquaculture & Fishing Transportation/ Logistics Forestry/ Reforestation, Wood & Paper Manufacturing Food & Beverage - Processing & Packaging Global

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Guidance

Around one and a half million people have travelled along the ‘Eastern Mediterranean route,’ the ‘Balkan route’ and the ‘Central Mediterranean route’ since 2015, in order to enter an EU country and apply for asylum or remain without regu...Read More

TAGS: Europe Middle East

Can cash transfers reduce child labor?

Guidance

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Business and Human Rights: Navigating a Changing Legal Landscape

Guidance

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TAGS: Due Diligence