March 2023 – In support of the ASEAN Commission on the Protection and Promotion of Women and Children (ACWC) efforts to strengthen regional capacity to identify and protect victims of trafficking, ASEAN-USAID PROSPECT, the ASEAN-Australia Counter Trafficking (ASEAN-ACT) Program, the Regional Support Office (RSO) of the Bali Process, and the NEXUS Institute are pleased to […]

15 December 2022 – In close collaboration, the NEXUS Institute, the Regional Support Office (RSO) of the Bali Process, and ASEAN-USAID PROSPECT co-hosted the second in a series of Thematic Dialogues for practitioners working to protect and support victims of trafficking in persons in ASEAN and Bali Process Member States. This second thematic dialogue, presented […]

9 August 2022 – In support of the ASEAN Commission on the Protection and Promotion of Women and Children (ACWC) efforts to strengthen regional capacity to identify and protect victims of trafficking, ASEAN-USAID PROSPECT, the ASEAN-Australia Counter Trafficking (ASEAN-ACT) Program, and the NEXUS Institute partnered to co-host a Thematic Dialogue on challenges in identifying victims […]

30 July 2022 – This year’s theme for World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is the use and abuse of technology, focusing on the role of technology as a tool that can both enable and counter human trafficking. For over twenty years, the NEXUS Institute has been innovating the application and adaptation of methods for the collection, analysis, […]

30 July 2022 – For this World Day Against Trafficking in Persons and in partnership with the Regional Support Office of the Bali Process, the NEXUS Institute has just launched a set of publications on developing a Directory of Services for Trafficking Victims, including a tool to provide step-by-step guidance on how to design and […]

BALI, INDONESIA, 13-16 July 2022 – NEXUS Institute Researcher and Project Officer Thaufiek Zulbahary presented on the NEXUS Institute’s longitudinal research with trafficking victims in Indonesia at the first ever Indonesia National Anti-Trafficking Gathering in July 2022. Hosted by Dark Bali, this community requested gathering brought together over 100 anti-trafficking professionals from across Indonesia. Mr. Zulbahary […]

March 2022 – The first four guides in the Practitioner Guide Series from NEXUS Institute and Regional Support Office of the Bali Process (RSO) are now available in Thai, in addition to English, Bahasa Indonesian, Malaysian, and Vietnamese. This series provides easy access to high quality research and guidance on different aspects of victim protection that […]

March 2022 – NEXUS and Different & Equal (D&E) have published three reintegration guides exploring key issues in supporting trafficking victim reintegration. These reintegration guides address: The stages of recovery and reintegration of trafficking victims Supporting the children of trafficking victims Mentoring of victims of trafficking The target audience is a broad range of reintegration practitioners […]

January 2022 – The first four guides in the Practitioner Guide Series from NEXUS Institute and Regional Support Office of the Bali Process (RSO) are now available in Bahasa Indonesian, Malaysian, and Vietnamese. The series provides easy access to high quality research and guidance on different aspects of victim protection that practitioners can use in […]

16 December 2021 – Today, NEXUS Institute Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees presented the NEXUS and RSO Practitioner Guide Series on trafficking victim protection at the Alliance Expert Coordination Team Meeting of the OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings. This Practitioner Guide series was developed in partnership with […]

15 December 2021 – NEXUS and Different & Equal (D&E) hosted a virtual workshop with practitioners from government and civil society throughout Albania to discuss and validate three reintegration guides that have jointly been prepared in the framework of the project Providing Comprehensive Reintegration Services and Improving the Protection Framework for Victims of Trafficking in Albania. […]

BANGKOK, THAILAND, 16 November 2021 – NEXUS Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees presented on how to protect trafficking victims to Bali Process Member States at the sixth annual meeting of the Bali Process Disruption Working Group. The presentation focused on victim protection in its broad sense – including identification and referral; protection and immediate support; recovery […]

November 2021 – NEXUS Institute and the Regional Support Office of the Bali Process (RSO) are pleased to have entered the second phase of a project to support the work of practitioners in Bali Process member states, with a particular focus on the ASEAN region. In phase one, NEXUS and Bali Process RSO developed a series of Practitioner […]

November 2021 – The NEXUS Institute’s sister organization Warnath Group has launched a new website to support the development, improvement, and maintenance of child-friendly spaces, spaces that are designed to help children feel safe, calm, and comfortable while they are interacting with practitioners. While child-friendly spaces can be used by all children and adolescents (anyone […]

21 September 2021 – Today, NEXUS Institute’s Senior Researcher and Technical Expert, Rebecca Surtees, presented the recently published Practitioner Guide Series on trafficking victim identification, protection and reintegration at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Bali Process Working Group on Trafficking in Persons (WG-TIP). This Practitioner Guide Series, conducted by NEXUS Institute in partnership with […]

1, 2, and 8 September 2021 – NEXUS Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees presented at a virtual training workshop on Enhancing Security in the Asia Pacific Region co-organized by the Regional Support Office of the Bali Process (RSO) and UNITAR CIFAL Jeju. The training workshop focused on enhancing understanding of human security and human trafficking; victim-centered approaches; […]

May 2021 – The NEXUS Institute and Regional Support Office of the Bali Process (RSO) have just published a Practitioner Guide Series on trafficking victim protection to support the work of anti-trafficking practitioners in Asia. The series provides easy access to high quality research and guidance on different aspects of victim protection that practitioners can […]

BANGKOK, THAILAND, 20 April 2021 – NEXUS Institute and the Regional Support Office of the Bali Process (RSO) hosted a virtual roundtable discussion with expert practitioners from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam on protecting victims of trafficking in persons. The NEXUS Institute and the RSO jointly prepared four Practitioner Guides for those involved […]

October 2020 – The NEXUS Institute’s President and CEO Stephen Warnath is pleased to announce that our sister organization Warnath Group has been awarded $15 million by the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (”Trafficking Office”) to support implementation of strategies designed to create transformational change in the fight against […]

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, 9 September 2020 – The NEXUS Institute congratulates the Jamaica Office of the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons (ONRTIP) on the launch of the ONRTIP Resource Library. As part of the U.S.-Jamaica Child Protection Compact, NEXUS Institute’s sister organization Warnath Group proudly partnered with ONRTIP to design this unique, user-friendly resource for […]

BANGKOK, THAILAND, 5-6 February 2020 – USAID Asia CTIP brought USAID Asia CTIP partner, NEXUS Institute as well as Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) specialists from Asia Counter Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) country programs (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Central Asia, Lao PDR, Nepal, and Thailand) and Winrock International’s Home Office and to share the challenges, needs and lesson […]

BANGKOK, THAILAND, 19 November 2019 – NEXUS joined a Regional Network Meeting on Transnational Referral Mechanisms (NRM) for Sustainable Reintegration. Hosted by UN-ACT, USAID Asia CTIP, and ASEAN-USAID PROSPECT, the meeting brought together participants from international organizations and NGOs working in the region on counter-trafficking, migration, labor exploitation and related regional issues, to exchange, update, […]

BANGKOK, THAILAND, 27-28 May 2019 – USAID Asia CTIP brought together Chiefs of Party (COP) and Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) specialists from five USAID-funded counter-human trafficking projects in Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, and Thailand) for the Third Annual Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting allowed representatives of the projects […]

May 2019 – NEXUS Institute is pleased to share our research in a new issue of Crime, Law and Social Change. The research, conducted as part of the project Vulnerability and exploitation along the Balkan route: Identifying victims of human trafficking in Serbia, considers the risk of and vulnerability to human trafficking among the thousands […]

BANGKOK, THAILAND, 2-4 April 2019 – NEXUS Institute was pleased to attend the launch of the ACWC Regional Guidelines and Procedures to Address the Needs of Victims of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. The ACWC Regional Guidelines provide ASEAN Member States with a common approach through which to implement commitments under the ASEAN […]

18 April 2019 – Experiences of long-term reintegration, particularly men’s experiences, are largely missing from research on human trafficking. And yet, understanding the nature of and reasons for the problems men face after trafficking is key in designing and implementing programs and policies for trafficked men to recover and reintegrate. NEXUS Institute’s research with 49 […]

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, 31 January 2019 – NEXUS Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees was among a select group of experts invited to attend the Expert Meeting of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons on the Social Inclusion of Victims of Trafficking. Drawing on the NEXUS Institute’s experience in the reintegration and inclusion of […]

DURRES, ALBANIA, 12-13 December 2018 – NEXUS Institute Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees led a consultative workshop on community-based reintegration of trafficking victims with 25 anti-trafficking professionals from Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro, hosted by Terre des homes (Tdh) in Durres, Albania. The workshop, Developing a model for community-based reintegration services for potential/ victims of trafficking, […]

July 2018 – NEXUS Institute, in partnership with the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs, is pleased to release Identification and Referral of Trafficking Victims in Indonesia. Guidelines for Frontline Responders and Multi-Disciplinary Teams at the Village Level (also available in Bahasa Indonesian). These Guidelines are an important tool for frontline responders at a village level in their […]

BANGKOK, THAILAND, 6-7 June 2018 – USAID Asia CTIP hosted a Learning Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, which brought together USAID CTIP stakeholders from throughout Asia, including USAID TIP focal points, USAID CTIP project implementers and their civil society partners as well as USAID Asia CTIP partners NEXUS Institute, Liberty Shared and Resonance. The Learning Forum, […]

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, 19-20 May 2018 – NEXUS Institute Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees joined a roundtable hosted by the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC). This roundtable was part of the ICMEC global research initiative Medical and Mental Health Services for Survivors of Child Trafficking: Barriers to Access. Participants assessed common barriers to medical […]

30 April 2018 – The just-released special issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review: Life after Trafficking includes NEXUS Institute’s most recent study on the reintegration of trafficked Indonesian men. The NEXUS article examines the experiences of and challenges faced by 49 Indonesian men reintegrating into their families and communities. While many tensions within the family were economic […]

BANDUNG, INDONESIA, 14-15 April 2018 – Together with the Australia-Asia Program to Combat Trafficking in Persons (AAPTIP), the NEXUS Institute held a Multi-Disciplinary Team Coordination Meeting, focused on sharing experiences and lessons learned from village-based Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) in West Java under the NEXUS pilot project to increase human trafficking victim identification in Indonesia. The pilot […]

VIENNA, AUSTRIA, 13 December 2017 – NEXUS Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees was in Vienna as a member of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Scientific Advisor Committee for UNODC’s Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. The meeting was attended by a small group of researchers to discuss the research methodology and approach and the […]

VIENNA, AUSTRIA, 11-12 December 2017 – NEXUS Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees participated in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Expert Group Meeting Consultations on trafficking in persons in conflict situations, as part of the preparation for UNODC’s Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018. A small group of global trafficking experts and researchers gathered […]

DOHA, QATAR, 6-7 December 2017 – The NEXUS Institute joined more than 300 experts from law enforcement, the public and private sectors, non-governmental and international organizations from 90 countries at the 5th INTERPOL Global Conference on Trafficking in Human Beings and Smuggling of Migrants. The conference focused on the essential roles that the public and private sectors […]

October 2017 – NEXUS Institute is pleased to join the Indonesian Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (MoWECP) and the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) in announcing the publication of Moving On. Family and Community Reintegration Among Indonesian Trafficking Victims, authored by Rebecca Surtees, NEXUS Senior Researcher. A trafficking victim’s escape or exit from exploitation […]

18 October 2017 – NEXUS Institute’s research on family reintegration among trafficked Indonesian domestic workers has been released in a pioneering new publication on human trafficking – the Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking. The Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking, edited by a team of international academics – Ryszard Piotrowicz, Conny Rijken and Baerbel Heide Uhl – provides […]

VIENNA, AUSTRIA, 27 September 2017 – NEXUS Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees joined 22 experts, researchers and academics from various disciplines at the first PescaDOLUS dedicated fisheries crime research workshop (FishSEARCH), which was funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers with the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, the UNODC and the North Atlantic […]

VIENNA, AUSTRIA, 25-26 September 2017 – NEXUS Institute Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees moderated a panel on trafficking in persons in the fishing industry at the Third International Symposium on Fisheries Crime (FishCRIME). FishCRIME 2017 was co-organized by the Government of Indonesia, the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Fisheries, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime […]

PHUKET, THAILAND, 1-3 September 2017 – NEXUS Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees served as an Observer to the Practitioners’ Workshop for Regional Multi-Sectoral Guidelines and Procedures to Address the Needs of TIP Victims in accordance with the ASEAN Convention against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (ACTIP), which was organized by the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion […]

YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA, 29-30 August 2017 – NEXUS Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees presented at the Second AICHR-SOMTC Consultation on the Human Rights-Based Instruments Related to the Implementation of the ASEAN Convention against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (ACTIP). This meeting was jointly organized and hosted by the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and the […]

June 2017 – NEXUS Institute is pleased to announce the release of Trafficked Along the “Balkan Route” with photographs by award-winning photojournalist Peter Biro. This photo essay is based on NEXUS and Fafo’s research study Vulnerability and exploitation along the Balkan route: Identifying victims of human trafficking in Serbia. The research considers the risk of and […]

May 2017 – NEXUS Institute is pleased to join the Indonesian Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (MoWECP) and the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) in announcing the publication of Our Lives. Vulnerability and Resilience Among Indonesian Trafficking Victims (also available in Bahasa Indonesian) authored by Rebecca Surtees, NEXUS Senior Researcher. When trafficked persons escape their […]

NEW YORK, 17-18 May 2017 – This week, research by NEXUS Institute and Fafo, including identifying victims of human trafficking among migrant and refugee populations, is being presented at the Alliance 8.7 meetings on reaching Sustainable Development Target Goal 8.7 in conflict and humanitarian settings. Alliance 8.7 is a coalition committed to accelerating and intensifying actions to achieve Sustainable […]

BANGKOK, 7 April 2017 – Today a new tool to support the reintegration of trafficking survivors was released by NEXUS Institute, the United Nations Action for Cooperation Against Trafficking in Persons (UN-ACT) and World Vision. The guidebook – Supporting the Reintegration of Trafficked Persons: A Guidebook for the Greater Mekong Sub-Region – is for practitioners […]

April 2017 – NEXUS Institute and Fafo are pleased to announce the publication of Vulnerability and exploitation along the Balkan route: Identifying victims of human trafficking in Serbia. The research project was implemented by NEXUS and Fafo, in close collaboration with the NGOs Atina and Center for Youth Integration (CIM) in Serbia and was funded by the Norwegian Ministry […]

WASHINGTON, 11 January 2017 – Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a new regional program to combat human trafficking in Asia. USAID’s Regional Development Mission for Asia awarded the five-year, $21.5 million USAID Asia Counter Trafficking in Persons (USAID Asia CTIP) program to Winrock International, a U.S.-based development organization. “This new program […]

The NEXUS Institute is pleased to announce the launch of its project supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-Asia Program to Combat Trafficking in Persons (AAPTIP): Increasing Victim Identification and Improving Access to Criminal Justice in Human Trafficking Cases in Indonesia NEXUS is implementing this pilot project in three villages in three districts in […]

BANDUNG, INDONESIA, 15-17 November 2016 – NEXUS’ Senior Researcher presented lessons learned in Indonesia on the identification and referral of victims of forced labor at the Multi-Agency Workshop on Trafficking in Persons for Forced Labour, held in Bandung, West Java. NEXUS shared findings from its longitudinal research in Indonesia, which found that large numbers of victims go […]

July 2016 – NEXUS Institute is pleased to announce the release of Human Trafficking in Indonesia: The Difficult Road Home, with photographs by award-winning photojournalist Peter Biro. This photo essay is based on NEXUS’ research study Going Home. Challenges in the Reintegration of Trafficking Victims in Indonesia, which explores the reintegration experiences of more than 100 Indonesian trafficking […]

June 2016 – NEXUS Institute is pleased to announce the release of its study on the reintegration of trafficking victims in Indonesia – Going Home. Challenges in the Reintegration of Trafficking Victims in Indonesia, authored by Rebecca Surtees, Laura S. Johnson, Thaufiek Zulbaharay and Suarni Daeng Caya. Going Home, based on repeat interviews with seventy-five Indonesian trafficking victims, […]

PUNCAK, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA, 26-27 May 2016 – NEXUS held a technical discussion in Puncak, West Java, with civil society organizations, on enhancing the reintegration of trafficking victims. The technical discussion focused on sharing experiences and lessons learned among service providers in West Java and Jakarta, including challenges and obstacles faced in supporting the reintegration of trafficking […]

JAKARTA, 24 May 2016 – This week in Jakarta, NEXUS hosted, in partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) and the Indonesian Association of Social Workers for Children and Families (APSAKI), a technical discussion on the role of social workers in the reintegration of trafficking victims in Indonesia. The technical discussion was held at the Ministry […]

April 2016 – The NEXUS Institute, together with the Indonesian Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (MoWECP) and the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA), are pleased to announce the publication of a Directory of Services for Indonesian Trafficking Victims and Exploited Migrant Workers (available in English and Bahasa Indonesian). This Directory of Services is for trafficking victims […]

JAKARTA, 29 April 2016 – Today NEXUS launched its Directory of Services for Indonesian Trafficking Victims and Exploited Migrant Workers in conjunction with IOM’s Mapping Government Services and Resources for Victim Assistance Handbook. NEXUS’ Directory of Services is a practical resource for trafficking victims and exploited migrants, which provides detailed information about their rights as trafficking victims, available assistance and […]

BANGKOK, 25-27 February 2016 – NEXUS was pleased to participate in the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) Regional Technical Consultation on Labor Aspects within the Fishing Industry in the ASEAN Region in Bangkok, Thailand. The consultation included an update on agreements, instruments and international conventions relevant to the fishing sector and an update of current legal […]

15 February 2016 – NEXUS Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees spoke with Laura Villadiego of La Marea about the importance of reintegration for trafficked fishers [the article is in Spanish]. “We have to consider the cost of not supporting reintegration [of the victims]. If they do not receive comprehensive and individualized support, they may not recover from [the experience […]

BANGKOK, THAILAND, 25-26 January 2016 – NEXUS participated in the USAID Asia Counter Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP) Evidence-Gathering Summit held in Bangkok, Thailand, which convened stakeholders, including international organizations, donors, civil society organizations (CSO), subject matter experts, governments, and private sector partners, to present ongoing C-TIP activities, identify existing gaps, and agree on priorities for the […]

12 January 2016 – The critical issue of human trafficking in the fishing industry was highlighted by NEXUS Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees in a SciDevNet article about data-driven approaches to combat human trafficking in the fishing industry. The article focused on the recent meeting of experts led by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Oslo, Norway to tackle […]

JAKARTA, 14 December 2015 – NEXUS conducted a national seminar on reintegration of trafficking victims in partnership with the Government of Indonesia’s Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (MoWECP) and Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA). The national seminar was opened and facilitated by Mr. Heru (Deputy of Women’s Protection, MoWECP), Ms. Niken (Deputy Assistant for the […]

OSLO, 25-26 November 2015 – NEXUS Institute participated in the International Expert Meeting on Labor Exploitation in the Fishing Sector in the Atlantic Region in Oslo, Norway. The Oslo Conference discussed good practices, innovative solutions and recommended ways to tackle labor exploitation in the fishing sector. It explored the responsibilities of state parties (flag states, […]

24 November 2015 – Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees spoke with the International Labour Organization about possible remedies to labor exploitation in the industry. What are the main problems in the fishing sector? There is a range of pressing issues to be considered in the fishing industry – including pollution and environmental concerns, illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, […]

CAPE TOWN, 12-13 October 2015 – NEXUS joined nearly 200 delegates from 31 countries in Cape Town, South Africa to participate in the inaugural International Symposium on FishCRIME. NEXUS Institute’s Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees presented on human trafficking for fishing, based on NEXUS’ extensive research on this understudied form of trafficking. Her presentation focused on how human […]

BRUSSELS, 30 June 2015 – Today the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) hosted a closed-door EU-level workshop on the reintegration of trafficking victims in the Balkans. Between 2007 and 2014, more than 1700 trafficked persons and their families throughout the region benefitted from the KBF and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) funded Trafficking Victims Re/integration Programme  (TVRP), through […]

BRUSSELS, 29 June 2015 – NEXUS participated in the final partners meeting in the framework of the Trafficking Victims Re/integration Programme (TVRP), hosted by the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF). The TVRP was implemented in the Balkans from 2006 to 2015. NEXUS was the Regional Technical Advisor for the TVRP from 2006 to 2015. The objectives of the final TVRP […]

SKOPJE, MACEDONIA, 12 June 2015 – NEXUS participated in a National Round Table Discussion in Skopje, Macedonia on the Reintegration of Trafficking Victims, hosted by King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) and partner NGOs Equal Access and Open Gate. NEXUS’ Senior Researcher and Regional Technical Advisor to the TVRP presented findings from Beyond Trafficking, an impact evaluation of the TVRP conducted by […]

PRISTINA, KOSOVO*, 11 June 2015 – NEXUS participated in a National Round Table Discussion in Pristina, Kosovo* on the Reintegration of Trafficking Victims, hosted by King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) and partner NGOs Hope & Homes and PVPT. NEXUS’ Senior Researcher and Regional Technical Advisor to the TVRP presented findings from Beyond Trafficking, an impact evaluation of the TVRP conducted by […]

TIRANA, ALBANIA, 9 June 2015 – NEXUS participated in a National Round Table Discussion in Tirana, Albania on the Reintegration of Trafficking Victims, hosted by the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) and partner NGOs Different and Equal (D&E), Tjeter Vision and Vatra. NEXUS’ Senior Researcher and Regional Technical Advisor to the TVRP presented findings from Beyond Trafficking, an impact […]

PHNOM PENH, 25-29 May 2015 – The South-South Institute (SSI) on Sexual Violence against Boys and Men held a weeklong event in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which considered conflict-related and other sexual violence against men and boys. The theme of this event – Addressing the Long Shadow – recognized that the shadow of sexual violence can be seen in the “invisibilization” […]

BELGRADE, SERBIA, 18 May 2015 – NEXUS participated in a National Round Table Discussion in Belgrade, Serbia on the Reintegration of Trafficking Victims, hosted by King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) and partner NGOs Atina and CYI. NEXUS’ Senior Researcher and Regional Technical Advisor to the TVRP presented findings from Beyond Trafficking, an impact evaluation of the TVRP conducted by NEXUS Institute. The […]

ZENICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, 11 May 2015 – NEXUS participated in a National Round Table Discussion in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Reintegration of Trafficking Victims, hosted by King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) and partner NGOs Medica Zenica and Zemlja djece. NEXUS’ Senior Researcher and Regional Technical Advisor to the TVRP presented findings from Beyond Trafficking, an impact evaluation of the […]

May 2015 – NEXUS Institute, King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have released a new report on trafficking victim reintegration in the Balkans. Beyond Trafficking: The re/integration of trafficking victims in the Balkans 2007-2014 is an evaluation of the Trafficking Victims Re/integration Programme (TVRP), which was launched by KBF in 2006 to enhance the […]

BANGKOK, 25-26 MARCH 2015 – NEXUS participated in the Bali Process Symposium on Trafficking for the Purposes of Labour Exploitation in Bangkok, Thailand (co-hosted by Thailand and Australia). The Bali Process Regional Symposium was held back-to-back with the first meeting of the Bali Process Working Group on Trafficking in Persons and brought together counter-trafficking experts from Bali Process […]

February 2015 – NEXUS, Fafo and D&E have just released two new studies on trafficking prevention, as part of our joint project Preventing Trafficking & Supporting Safe Migration in Albania. The pilot project, undertaken in one community in Albania, used a “positive deviance” methodology in an effort to prevent human trafficking. This approach recognizes that in all communities there […]

MANILA, PHILIPPINES, 27-29 January 2015 – NEXUS Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees presented lessons learned on the identification and assistance of victims of forced labor at the Conference on the Labor Dimensions of Trafficking in Persons in the ASEAN Region, hosted by AAPTIP and the ILO. The NEXUS presentation What Victims Need: Supporting Victims of Labor Trafficking […]

January 2015 – The importance of identifying and protecting victims of trafficking for fishing was highlighted by NEXUS Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees in a Stop Illegal Fishing article. “At the end of the day these people are victims of crime, and they have certain rights. They need certain protections and assistance and they are entitled […]

December 2014 – The NEXUS Institute and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are pleased to announce the publication of a study on trafficking within the commercial fishing industry – In African waters. The trafficking of Cambodian fishers in South Africa, authored by Rebecca Surtees, Senior Researcher, NEXUS Institute. This study discusses the trafficking of Cambodian men […]

BERAT, ALBANIA, 19-20 November 2014 –NEXUS, Fafo (Norway) and Different & Equal (Albania) hosted a Regional Seminar on the Positive Deviance Methodology to Prevent Trafficking in Albania. The objective of the seminar was to present the implementation of the pilot project on trafficking prevention, which used, very uniquely, a positive deviance (PD) approach. The seminar introduced participants […]

May 2014 – NEXUS Institute’s Founder, President & CEO, Stephen Warnath, is co-author with three distinguished experts and law school educators of the publication: Human Trafficking Law and Policy. This book for the first time brings together the key case law, legislation and scholarship that comprise domestic and international human trafficking law and its policy context. The book’s […]