COVID-19 and Other Emergencies as Determinants of Antitrafficking Efforts

Abstract

This article focuses on COVID-19 as a determinant of antitrafficking efforts. While the impacts of COVID-19 on trafficking itself (including the increased awareness of new forms of exploitation and heightened vulnerabilities to trafficking) have been relatively well documented [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] , [5] , [6] , the impacts of the health emergency on governments’ antitrafficking efforts have received less attention. This article seeks to address this gap in the literature, building on the findings of the “Determinants of Anti-Trafficking Efforts” research project [7] funded by the U.S. Department of State Office for Combatting Human Trafficking and implemented by the authors at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.