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5 results foundAuthor: Kock, Ida Elin Title: Vulnerable Persons from Bulgaria and Romania who Sell Sexual Services in Oslo: Experiences from Pro Sentret and Other Actors in Oslo Summary: Introduction: In Norway, the media climate has been harsh when it comes to migrants from Bulgaria and Romania, particularly in relation to begging and other forms of street-work. Producing a report that deals with persons of a specific origin who are involved in a very stigmatised occupation, prostitution, is a precarious matter; one risks further adding stigma to a highly ostracised group. The aim behind this report is to map what service providers and state actors know of the group through service provision, including general life situation, health and the extent of organised crime/trafficking in this group. The composition of nationalities among the service users of Pro Sentret has gone through rather substantial changes in the last two years. People with Nigerian origin dominated the service users from around 2005, making up around 50% of the total of service users of Pro Sentret. However, the number of Nigerian service users have diminished since 2015. Because of the substantial drop in Nigerians, persons of Romanian origin are now the third biggest nationality among the service users of Pro Sentret despite of the numbers being fairly stable in recent years. Bulgarians make up a smaller, but stable group. Details: Oslo, Norway: Pro Sentret, 2017. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 27, 2019 at: http://prosentret.no/en/om-pro-sentret/pro-sentrets-publikasjoner/ovrige-publikasjoner-2/ Year: 2017 Country: Norway URL: http://prosentret.no/en/om-pro-sentret/pro-sentrets-publikasjoner/ovrige-publikasjoner-2/ Shelf Number: 155582 Keywords: Bulgaria Norway Prostitution Romania Sex Work Streetwork Vulnerable Persons |
Author: Moisl, Erika Title: Evaluation of the StreetLink Project: A Report by Crisis Research and Evaluation Team for Homeless Link Summary: There has been a marked increase in rough sleeping across Great Britain in recent years - in England levels have increased by 60 per cent between 2011 and 2016 and by 50 per cent in Wales in the same period. The need to address rough sleeping and prevent homelessness is recognised by all, including the Government. Whilst there has been homelessness prevention legislation implemented in Wales through the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 and a shift to prevention activity through the Homelessness Reduction Act in England, rough sleeping continues to persist and the interventions and funding to address it vary across England and Wales. StreetLink, the service designed to help the public to connect a person sleeping rough with local services, was launched in England in 2012 and introduced into Wales in 2016. Funded by grants from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), the Greater London Authority (GLA) and the Welsh Government, StreetLink is run in partnership between Homeless Link and St. Mungo's. StreetLink is designed to help the public to connect a person sleeping rough with local services, with the objective to improve the response to individual rough sleepers, and the wider local systems that support rough sleepers off the streets. Details: London: Homeless Link, 2018. 130p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 4, 2019 at: https://www.homeless.org.uk/connect/features/2018/apr/13/evaluation-of-streetlink-project-report-published Year: 2018 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.homeless.org.uk/sites/default/files/site-attachments/StreetLink%20evaluation%20report_FINAL.pdf Shelf Number: 156164 Keywords: Homeless Persons Homelessness Housing Rough Sleeping Vulnerable Persons |
Author: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Title: Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence in Australia: Continuing the National Story Summary: Family, domestic and sexual violence is a major national health and welfare issue that can have lifelong impacts for victims and perpetrators. It affects people of all ages and from all backgrounds, but predominantly affects women and children. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 Personal Safety Survey (PSS) estimated that 2.2 million adults have been victims of physical and/or sexual violence from a partner since the age of 15 (ABS 2017c). This report builds on the AIHW's inaugural Family, domestic and sexual violence in Australia 2018 report (AIHW 2018b). It presents new information on vulnerable groups, such as children and young women. It examines elder abuse in the context of family, domestic and sexual violence, and includes new data on telephone and web-based support services, community attitudes, sexual harassment and stalking. It also includes the latest data on homicides, child protection, hospitals and specialist homelessness services. Family violence refers to violence between family members, typically where the perpetrator exercises power and control over another person. The most common and pervasive instances occur in intimate (current or previous) partner relationships and are usually referred to as domestic violence. Sexual violence refers to behaviours of a sexual nature carried out against a person's will. It can be perpetrated by a current or previous partner, other people known to the victim, or strangers. Details: Canberra, Australia: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2019. 162p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June, 6, 2019 at: https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2019/06/apo-nid239821-1363766.pdf Year: 2019 Country: Australia URL: https://apo.org.au/node/239821 Shelf Number: 156250 Keywords: Domestic Violence Family Violence Intimate Partner Violence Sexual Violence Vulnerable Persons |
Author: President's Interagency Task Force (U.S.) Title: Report on U.S. Government Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons Summary: Trafficking in persons, also known as modern slavery or human trafficking, undermines the United States’ core principles and values. It robs millions of people of their freedom, and all too often is a hidden crime. Human trafficking respects no boundaries. In the United States and in countries around the world, it splinters communities, threatens public safety and national security, distorts economic markets, undermines rule of law, and spurs transnational criminal activity. Human traffickers will continue to expand and diversify their recruitment tactics and methods of exploitation if left unchecked. Traffickers can be strangers, acquaintances, or even family members, and they prey on the vulnerable and on those seeking opportunities to build for themselves a brighter future. The United States has made the global fight against human trafficking a policy priority and employs a whole-of-government approach to address all aspects of this crime. The President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF) and the Senior Policy Operating Group (SPOG), which consists of senior officials designated as representatives of the PITF agencies, work year-round to address the many aspects of human trafficking both in the United States and around the world. The agencies of the PITF are the Departments of State (DOS), Treasury (Treasury), Defense (DOD), Justice (DOJ), the Interior (DOI), Agriculture (USDA), Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), Transportation (DOT), Education (ED), and Homeland Security (DHS), as well as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the National Security Council (NSC), the Domestic Policy Council (DPC), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). PITF agencies regularly convene to advance and coordinate federal policies and work with a range of stakeholders to collaborate, including on the enforcement of criminal and labor laws to end impunity for traffickers; victim-centered identification and protection services; innovations in data gathering and research; education and public awareness activities; and synchronization of strategically linked foreign assistance and diplomatic engagement. This report reflects the work that these agencies have accomplished, through a diverse range of partnerships and five SPOG Committees, from September 2016 through September 2017. The achievements included in the following pages range from unveiling a new online and mobile app that provides guidance to companies on how to develop comprehensive social compliance programs to launching a training and technical assistance center aimed at enhancing the public health response to human trafficking and the development of a new program to address the housing needs of human trafficking victims. In addition, the PITF expanded in the last year to include Treasury in recognition of the expertise it brings to anti-trafficking efforts, including in evaluating the nexus between money laundering and human trafficking. Throughout the reporting period, federal agencies explored how to use resources as effectively as possible to assist victims of this crime, including by identifying those who remain in the shadows subject to unimaginable exploitation and empowering those who have dedicated themselves to shining a light on the darkness cast by human trafficking. This Administration will continue pursuing ways to bolster intelligence collection, information-sharing, and analysis; leverage the best tools and learning; establish effective partnerships with stakeholders; and better integrate survivor input into a range of activities to combat and respond to human trafficking. Details: Washington, DC: President's Interagency Task Force, 2017. 28p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 18, 2019 at: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/report_usg_tip_efforts.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: https://www.state.gov/report-on-u-s-government-efforts-to-combat-trafficking-in-persons/ Shelf Number: 156480 Keywords: Human Trafficking Public Health Rule of Law Trafficking in Persons Transnational Crime Vulnerable Persons |
Author: Martin, Chris Title: Social Housing Legal Responses to Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour: Impacts on Vulnerable Families Summary: Key findings: Residential tenancies law in all Australian jurisdictions affords legal means for landlords to respond to crime and non-criminal anti-social behaviour ('misconduct') by tenants, other occupiers and visitors. The quantitative data, while patchy, indicate that social housing landlordsare heavy users of termination proceedings, including in relation to misconduct. Australian social housing landlords have developed distinctive policies and practices for responding to misconduct. For example, the public housing landlords in almost all Australian states and territories have adopted, at least for a time, 'three strikes' policies to guide their use of termination proceedings. In some jurisdictions, special legislative provisions have been introduced to facilitate termination proceedings for misconduct. Drug offences are a particular target of these provisions, but a wide range of types of misconduct are also within the scope of the provisions and social landlords' legal proceedings. At the same time, social housing policy has consolidated its longer-term trend towards targeting assistance to households with low incomes and complex support needs. Responding to misconduct in social housing is plainly a very challenging area of practice. Many of the cases we reviewed, and discussed in interviews with stakeholders, involve highly conflictual, destructive and distressing behaviour. However, termination proceedings are not always taken as a matter of urgency, nor as a last resort when all other approaches to sustain the tenancy have failed. It appears that in most cases a single substantial contact between the social housing landlord and the tenant is sufficient to address a minor problem. However, where problematic behaviour continues, the usual course of action - a combination of escalating threats to the tenancy and pushing the tenant to 'engage' with the landlord and support services - does not work for many. Escalating threats often drive 'engagement' that is last-minute and short-lived, and sometimes so unsatisfactory that it can drive an escalation in threats. In many cases, social housing landlords' legal responses frustrate other more ameliorative and preventative ways of addressing misconduct and related support needs, and result in the eviction and homelessness of vulnerable persons and families. In particular, there are aspects of law, policy and practice that do not appropriately address vulnerable persons and families: women who have experienced domestic and family violence, children, Indigenous persons and families, and persons and families with members who problematically use alcohol or other drugs. These aspects of social housing law, policy and practice insufficiently reflect, or are contrary to, leading policy principles and frameworks regarding those vulnerable types of persons and families. Women: The evidence shows a significant gender dimension to social housing legal responses to misconduct. Social housing landlords are generally strongly committed to assisting women affected by domestic violence into safe housing, but this commitment may falter during a social housing tenancy. Tenancy obligations and extended liability - and social housing landlords' use of them - impose hard expectations that women will control the misconduct of male partners and children. Even violence becomes framed as a 'nuisance' in tenancy legal proceedings, some women are evicted because of violence against them. Children: Children are sometimes the instigators of misconduct, but more often are innocent bystanders to misconduct by others. Where termination proceedings would affect children, social housing landlords typically make additional efforts at alternatives, but the interests of children are a marginal consideration in the determination of proceedings. Indigenous persons and families: There is strong Indigenous representation in the cases involving women and children. More specifically, Indigenous persons and families often present complex personal histories, institutional contacts and interpersonal relationships, shaped by past and present institutional racism and colonialism. This makes 'engagement' even more problematic. Persons who problematically use alcohol and other drugs: Responses to misconduct relating to alcohol and other drug use are not expressly guided by harm minimisation. Criminal offences, especially, elicit punitive termination proceedings, with social housing landlords, police, and sometimes courts and tribunals, operating in a condemnatory, exclusionary mode. Even where overt condemnation or punitiveness is absent, termination proceedings may be taken that disrupt treatment and rehabilitation, including where this has been sanctioned by the criminal justice system. Policy development options: Policy development options to better integrate social housing policy with support for vulnerable persons and families include: -moving support out of the shadow of tenancy termination; -giving tenants more certainty through commitments that no-one will be evicted into homelessness; -ensuring proper scrutiny is applied to termination decisions and proceedings, and to sector practice; -reforming the law regarding tenants' extended and vicarious liability for other persons. More specific policy development options for each of our four types of vulnerable persons and families include: -reviewing social housing policies and practice for gender impacts, and sponsoring the cultivation of respectful relationships; -adopting 'the best interests of the child' as the paramount factor in decisions about termination affecting children; -establishing specific Indigenous housing organisations, officers and advocates; -adopting harm minimisation as the guiding principle for responses to alcohol and other drug use, including where there is criminal offending. The study: The study comprises a number of elements: -a review of available quantitative data about social housing termination proceedings; -a review of high-level policy principles and frameworks regarding women affected by domestic violence, children, Indigenous persons and families, and alcohol and other drug users; -a review of residential tenancies law and social housing policies regarding misconduct by tenants and occupiers; -analysis of 95 cases of social housing legal proceedings in response to misconduct; -analysis of interviews with representatives of 11 stakeholder organisations. The research makes a new contribution through the breadth of its review of Australian legal and policy settings regarding social housing terminations for misconduct, the depth of its examination of social housing termination practice, and its focus on problematic outcomes for specific categories of vulnerable persons and families living at the intersection of social housing and other areas of governmental practice. Details: Melbourne, Australia: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, 2019. 84p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 19, 2019 at: https://www.ahuri.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/42147/AHURI-Final-Report-314-Social-housing-legal-responses-to-crime-and-anti-social-behaviour-impacts-on-vulnerable-families.pdf Year: 2019 Country: Australia URL: https://www.ahuri.edu.au/research/final-reports/314 Shelf Number: 156552 Keywords: Domestic Violence Evictions Family Violence Housing Urban Planning Violence Against Women Vulnerable Persons |