Still punishing the wrong people: the criminalisation of potential trafficked cannabis gardeners

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-186
Author(s):  
Patrick Burland
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Victims Of Crime ◽  
The Uk

This chapter examines the existing knowledge about human trafficking for cannabis cultivation in the UK, with a specific focus on how Vietnamese nationals are most commonly being exploited for this purpose. It then moves on to its main focus: the criminalisation of those potentially trafficked for cannabis cultivation. Trafficked persons who are exploited for the cultivation of cannabis in the UK are committing criminal offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. However, if people trafficked to grow cannabis are recognised as having been abused and exploited, and as victims of crime or human rights violations as a result of coercion and abuse, then punishing them should be seen as highly inappropriate. The criminalisation of trafficked persons is also counterproductive for efforts to prevent trafficking and prosecute traffickers.

scholarly journals Triply Exploited: Female Victims of Smuggling and Trafficking Networks Strategies for Pursuing Protection and Legal Status in Countries of Destination

2017 ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Marie Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
The Status ◽  
Economic Need

Although efforts have been directed towards the protection of victims of human trafficking and smuggling, the existing systems are still flawed and lack more effective ways to provide support, assistance and long-term status to those victims. Several international mechanisms exist, however, the protection and assistance they provide often depends on the nature or value of the information provided by victims. Asylum may be the only relief available to victims of smuggling, many of whom suffer serious human rights violations. This article provides several proposals for obtaining permanent legal status in destination countries for women who fear returning to their home country or who cannot return because of great economic need. Specifically, the article will discuss relief under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol, provide suggestions for improved trafficking visas and, finally, suggest that labour based immigration include work visas for prostitutes.Published online: 11 December 2017

The Obligations of Prevention, Protection and Assistance to Victims of Trafficking

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Ruth Shrimpling ◽  
Annelies Blondé
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Future Action ◽  
Victims Of Crime ◽  
Trafficking Victims ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach ◽  
Practical Implications

Abstract The emphasis on the prevention of the crime and the protection and assistance to victims of crime in international and European anti-trafficking instruments is a prominent example of the human rights-based approach to human trafficking. However, there is room for further improvement. This article reflects on the needs of trafficking victims in light of theoretical and practical implications of relevant international and European instruments with the aim of defining future action.

The Centre Cannot Hold

Idi Amin ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 239-275
Author(s):  
Mark Leopold
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
North America ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Key Staff ◽  
Almost All

This chapter illustrates how most of the killings, 'disappearances', and other human rights abuses people associate with Idi Amin occurred in the central years of his rule. It was then that Amin's eccentric behaviour and statements came to worldwide attention and the first books about him were published; in effect, it was the time in which his myth was created, and he became Africa's icon of evil. However, this period was also one for which there is little primary evidence. Between 1973 and the end of Amin's regime, contemporary sources of information increasingly fade away. Gradually, almost all Uganda's academics, journalists, writers, and other intellectuals left the country. Some joined the exile groups based in Tanzania, Kenya, and Zambia, others went to the UK or North America. The British High Commission, whose records are, despite their bias and prejudices, by far the most important source of contemporary material on Amin's Uganda, was operating under severe limitations from 1973 onwards, with frequent expulsions of key staff, and restrictions on travel outside Kampala. Above all, though, it is important to focus on the severe human rights violations that took place in this period.

Sacrificing the Effectiveness of the European Convention on Human Rights on the Altar of the Effective Functioning of Peace Support Operations: A Critique of Behrami & Saramati and Al Jedda

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Breitegger
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Effective Functioning ◽  
European Court ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Effective Remedy ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe European Convention of Human Rights is unlikely to be an effective remedy for local individuals alleging human rights violations by European states participating in peace support operations abroad in the future. This conclusion is substantiated by analysing the restrictive and legally flawed stance taken by the European Court of Human Rights in the joint cases of Behrami and Saramati which had not only a precedential effect on this court's own jurisprudence but also on the case of Al Jedda v. UK Secretary of Defence before the UK House of Lords. Ultimately, the decisions in these cases may be understood by the choice to let the rationale of effective functioning of peace support operations prevail over the effectiveness of human rights protection of local individuals.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Human Rights Violations and Human Trafficking

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Julia Muraszkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Trafficking In Human Beings ◽  
The Relationship

Human trafficking is lucrative crime, often trans border, affecting every country in the world. In the course of this crime victims are subjected heinous experiences. Consequently the crime has been described as a grave violation of human rights. However, there are those that question the legal nature of trafficking in human beings, and whether it really is a violation of human rights. This article explores the relationship between human trafficking and human rights, and analyses what are the impacts of that relationship on State’s duties to fight the crime.

scholarly journals The Legal Framework on Human Trafficking in the UAE

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-436
Author(s):  
Aref Abdullah Mohmmed Alwadeai
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Trafficking In Human Beings

Trafficking in human beings is not accepted by the International Entities as a whole; because of the human rights violations that it entails and the woes that result from these acts. This research aims to identify the legal framework for crimes of trafficking in human beings in the UAE, and what made these legislations are distinquieshed in the CGC related to their phases of developments, by answering two main questions, firstly: What is the crime of human trafficking and its pillars? Secondly: what is the role of the UAE legislator in combating human trafficking crimes? The research followed the descriptive analytical approach. Finally: at the end of this research, number of results are reached related to the development of the UAE law as a special law for crimes of human trafficking as a complementary law to the Federal Penal Code. There are matters and procedures the UAE law must do it, for example, the need to criminalize the act of incitement to commit crimes of human trafficking in all its forms, by any means and whatever the legal or factual effect of this incitement.

scholarly journals Human trafficking for sex exploitation in Thailand

Securitologia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Nataliya Opanovych
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Sex Tourism ◽  
State Of Affairs

Research paper addresses an issue of sex trafficking in the Kingdom of Thailand and analyzes it through external and internal perspectives. Firstly, legal framework of The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in regards to human rights violations and its activities to eliminate the problem in the region are examined. Secondly, historical reasons of sex industry in Thailand, state of affairs and its con-sequences for the society are discussed and local government’s activities are criti-cized. Lastly, sex tourism as a main cause of the problem is identified.

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