{"id":1029,"date":"2020-08-04T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2021-12-22T11:24:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:24:53","slug":"tech-against-trafficking-leveraging-technology-to-combat-trafficking-in-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Tech Against Trafficking – Leveraging Technology to Combat Trafficking in Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u0418\u0437\u0432\u043e\u0440: WUNRN \u2013 04.08.2020<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)<\/a> and Tech Against Trafficking<\/a>, a coalition of global tech companies and experts leveraging technology to help eradicate human trafficking, have jointly launched<\/a> \u2018Leveraging innovation to fight trafficking in human beings: A comprehensive analysis of technology tools\u2019.<\/p>\n

The report finds that while technology can be an effective tool in the drive to prevent human trafficking, it has simultaneously enabled traffickers to achieve greater efficiencies.<\/p>\n

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Specifically, technology tools are used by anti-trafficking stakeholders to prevent trafficking circumstances by enhancing technological capabilities among vulnerable and marginalized groups and communities (e.g. children and ethnic minorities); to investigate and prosecute criminal activities; to protect and support survivors; and to equip stakeholders with technical capacities and innovative approaches.<\/p>\n

The flipside of the digital coin is that traffickers also deploy technology to scale up their market reach, deliver new types of illicit services, such as livestreaming of sexual abuse and exploitation, to innovate their operations, to target more victims and to launder criminal proceeds anonymously.<\/p>\n

This dual aspect of the law of technology is the central focus of the new publication, the first to analyze on a global scale how anti-trafficking stakeholders \u2013 and traffickers \u2013 deploy technology.<\/p>\n

The report features a global landscape analysis of technology tools that have been developed to counter human trafficking. Landscape mapping of anti-trafficking tech tools<\/a> is a core project of Tech Against Trafficking\u2019s research, a multi-stakeholder initiative that uses datasets from the private sector (including Amazon, AT&T, BT, Microsoft and Salesforce.org), and intergovernmental and civil-society organizations. Tech Against Trafficking and the GI-TOC conducted global outreach in order to include regional and local technology tools, making the mapping comprehensive. The result was greater inclusion of non-English technology tools developed and operating in the Global South, especially with the support of international NGOs and several UN agencies.<\/p>\n

The following are some of the key takeaways from the landscape analysis, which includes more than 300 technology tools.<\/p>\n