Estimating the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in the United States: Considerations and Complexities Proceedings of a Workshop (2020) / Chapter Skim
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4 International Approaches to Measuring Prevalence
4 International Approaches to Measuring Prevalence
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, was formed to promote a fair global playing field for workers in the United States and around the world by enforcing trade commitments, strengthening labor standards, and combating international child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking. Although the office is well known for its work in child labor, one-third of its $259 million annual budget is currently allocated to combating forced labor.
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, who serves on the research and policy team at ILAB, told the workshop participants that ILAB's technical cooperation projects create tools for forced labor research and help countries increase their capacity to work with the ILO to produce data at nationally representative levels. ILAB has also provided technical support for external research tools, such as Hard to See, Harder to Count, and for pilot studies seeking to understand whether national statistical systems can be leveraged to derive prevalence estimates on forced labor.
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Verité partners with major multinational companies to help them better understand labor conditions in their supply chains through a variety of approaches, including workplace assessments, training, capacity building, and independent research. It uses a sector-based approach to illuminate labor rights problems with the goal of better understanding risk and vulnerability.
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The study used a cross-sectional research design that used a variety of data collection methods: the survey included a closed-ended questionnaire, openended questions, and personal interviews, and Verité used a combination of nonprobability sampling and snowball sampling to recruit participants. The research team interviewed 501 workers, including people from the countries that are primary consumers of electronics from Malaysia and people from major producing regions within Malaysia, aiming to interview no more than five workers from any given factory and trying to cover workers on all major Malaysian electronic products.
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said that the idea for the Counter Trafficking Data Collaborative (CTDC) was to create a global data repository of de-identified 2 International Labour Organization.
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Crowe said that creating the repository required the three primary organizations, Polaris, IOM, and Liberty Shared,3 to reconcile definitional differences: Polaris uses the definitions in the U.S. federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act; IOM and Liberty Shared use European definitions that include forced marriage and organ trafficking.
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) told the group about Delta 8.7, an innovative online tool created by the research center to help policy actors efficiently access and digest data most relevant to policy-making efforts and to identify what type of policy efforts have been most effective eradicating forced labor, child labor, modern slavery, and human trafficking.
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Department of Labor designed to examine the state of available child labor, human trafficking, and forced labor data and research; highlight gaps in knowledge; and communicate findings to policy makers. The project, which involves input from IOM and UNU-CPR, is intended to build greater research capacity and interest among researchers across disciplines to study forced labor, child labor, and human trafficking through grants and online educational tools.
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Care providers are a crucial resource; in order to support the collection and provision of data in a way that researchers can use, Gleason said communication should be a two-way street. Fourth, she encouraged researchers to remember that the goal in collaborating and seeking patterns in the data is to promote sustained freedom for the victims and not simply reduce the prevalence of human trafficking.
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