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HUMAN TRAFFICKING / AVIATION GUIDELINES
STORY: HUMAN TRAFFICKING / AVIATION GUIDELINES
TRT: 2:46
SOURCE: OHCHR
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 MAY 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Various shots, aerial, Palais Wilson
2. Zoom out, conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Fang Liu, Secretary General, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO): “It is beholden upon each civil aviation authorities of our Member States to mandate the airlines registered or operating in their airspace to provide a trafficking migration, mitigation training for their personnel as detailed in this new guideline.”
4. Various shots, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights: “In the business model of human trafficking, transportation is key. And although many traffickers seeking to avoid detection by the authorities, use clandestine transport. So many others are so brazenly confident as to use public transport. Forcibly, or deceitfully moving victims with them via taxis, public buses, sea vessels and commercial aircraft. Reliable, efficient, safe, sustained use of effective transport methods is an essential component of the trafficker’s business model. It’s our business to disrupt that model.”
6. Wide shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Donna Hubbard, survivor, Airline Ambassadors International:
“I was a young mother of 22, a brand-new flight attendant and I became a victim of gang rape. I woke up with a man on top of me, that wasn’t him [her boyfriend], and there were other men standing along the wall waiting their turn.”
8. Med shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Donna Hubbard, survivor, Airline Ambassadors International:
“I think airlines are in a very unique position because so much trafficking happens aboard aircrafts, that they should be very engaging in taking the opinion, and the expertise and the experience of survivors and putting it, integrating it into their employee system.”
10. Screen with page from presentation
The United Nations Human Rights Office and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) have launched training guidelines for air cabin crews and airport personnel to prevent human trafficking.
Launching the co-published guidelines in Geneva Monday (28 May), Dr. Fang Liu, Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said: “It is beholden upon each civil aviation authorities of our Member States, to mandate the airlines registered or operating in their airspace, to provide trafficking mitigation training for their personnel as detailed in this new guideline.”
Fang emphasized that the aviation industry has a role and can contribute to ending the global problem of human trafficking.
The UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore charged that no region is immune to human trafficking citing, “source, transit to the destination,” as indicators.
Gilmore highlighted the role of the transport industry in curbing trafficking.
She said “In the business model of human trafficking, transportation is key. And although many traffickers seeking to avoid detection by the authorities, use clandestine transport means. So many others are so brazenly confident as to use public transport. Forcibly, or deceitfully moving victims with them via taxis, public buses, sea vessels and commercial aircraft. Reliable, efficient, safe, sustained use of effective transport methods is an essential component of the trafficker’s business model. It’s our business to disrupt that model.”
Participants at the event heard first hand on the effects of trafficking from Donna Hubbard, a flight attendant, who was gang-raped and lured into sexual exploitation by gangs in exchange for protection of her family.
Hubbard urged that airlines give employment opportunities to trafficking victims and delink them from the crimes.
She said: “I think airlines are in a very unique position, because so much trafficking happens aboard aircrafts that they should be very, very engaging in taking the opinion, and the expertise and the experience of survivors and integrating it into their employee system.”
The guidelines will need the support from states and civil aviation authorities in enforcing and distributing them to airline operators, registered in their national jurisdictions.
A 2017 International Labour Organisation (ILO) report estimated modern slavery at about 40 million people globally.
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