Abstract:
The Guidelines to Prevent Abusive Recruitment, Exploitative Employment and
Trafficking of Migrant Workers in the Baltic Sea Region is the culmination of
the project “ADSTRINGO − Addressing Trafficking in Human Beings for
Labour Exploitation through Improved Partnerships, Enhanced Diagnostics and
Intensified Organisational Approaches”. The project is implemented by the
European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United
Nations (HEUNI) together with the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of
Lithuania, the University of Tartu in Estonia and the Council of the Baltic Sea
States Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings (CBSS TF-THB).
The aim of these guidelines is to address and tackle the different forms of
exploitation and trafficking of migrant workers in the Baltic Sea Region that
were identified as problematic in the joint ADSTRINGO research report
“Exploitation of Migrant Workers in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania.
Uncovering the Links between Recruitment, Irregular Employment Practices
and Labour Trafficking”. In addition, many of these problematic practices and
issues have been identified and discussed in the national experts meetings
which have been organised under the ADSTRINGO umbrella in Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, as
well as in Poland and Russia. The guidelines have been produced in English
and translated to the four other project languages Finnish, Swedish, Estonian
and Lithuanian. Ultimately, it is our hope that the guidelines will be utilised in
efforts to prevent trafficking for forced labour and to protect the rights of
migrant workers in the different countries in the Baltic Sea region.
