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• National Rapporteur stresses need for international cooperation in combating organ trade

  News item | 23-04-2013

  The office of the Dutch National Rapporteur was represented at the international ELPAT-congress on ethical, legal and psychosocial aspects of transplantation. At the congress, which was held in Rotterdam on 19 and 20 April, the head of office explained the link between organ trade and trafficking in human beings. He stressed that international cooperation is essential for combating this crime.

• Report on organ removal and forced commercial surrogacy now available

  News item | 04-12-2012

  The study of the Dutch National Rapporteur on human trafficking for the purpose of the removal of organs and forced commercial surrogacy is now available in English. In the report, the Rapporteur focuses on current developments in the field of organ donation and the forced removal of organs and – for the first time – argues that forced commercial surrogacy could fall within the scope of human trafficking.

• Watch the National Rapporteur live at TEDx

  News item | 30-11-2012

  On Saturday 1 December Corinne Dettmeijer, the Dutch Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings will speak about modern day slavery at TEDxAmsterdamWomen.

• Presentation of First Report on Child Pornography to United Nations

  News item | 05-06-2012

  The National Rapporteur will present her First Report on Child Pornography to the United Nations (UN) on 6 June 2012. Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Violence against Children, Ms. Marta Santos Pais will receive the report at the UNICEF headquarters in New York, in the presence of Mr. Christian Salazar, Deputy Director Programme Division of UNICEF and Ms. Susan Bissell, UNICEF Associate Director, Chief Child Protection.

• Parliamentarians Against Human Trafficking seminar in The Hague on 26 January 2012

  News item | 20-01-2012

  On 26 January 2012 a good practice exchange between international Members of Parliament is to take place in the Dutch Senate in The Hague. The Dutch National Rapporteur against Trafficking in Human Beings is one of the speakers during the event.

• Dutch National Rapporteur at conference "Incorporating Human Trafficking in Academic Institutions: The European Experience"

  News item | 20-01-2012

  On 25 November 2011 the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings took part in the conference "Incorporating Human Trafficking in Academic Institutions: The European Experience", which was organised by the University of Amsterdam, Johns Hopkins University and The Protection Project.

• First report on child pornography

  News item | 12-10-2011

  Due to the efforts of several MPs, NGOs (e.g. ECPAT) and the Dutch police, the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings – Mrs. Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen – was appointed by the Minister of Justice as the first rapporteur on child pornography in October 2009.

• Eighth Report presented by the National Rapporteur

  News item | 20-10-2010

  The Eighth Report of the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings was presented to the Dutch government on Friday 15 October 2010.

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