Publications and studies

Booklet - Convention
and Explanatory Memorandum
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings and explanatory report, Warsaw (Poland), 16.V.2005, CETS No. 197 (2013)
Format: A5 - 130 pages
Languages: English - French
Format: PDF | Paper
ISBN : 978-92-871-9110-6
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Leaflet - Victim's rights
Format: A5 - 8 pages - PDF
Other languages:
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Belarusian
- Bengali
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Irish
- Italian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Maltese
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Romani
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu

Leaflet - Monitoring Mechanism
Format: A5 - 6 pages - PDF
Other languages:
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Irish
- Italian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Maltese
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Romani
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian

Flyer - Convention and monitoring mechanism

Booklet - General reports
Format: 18x24 - 80 pages - PDF
GRETA’s General Reports present an overview of its activities including meetings, evaluation visits, country reports, round tables, and relations with other Council of Europe bodies, international organisations and non-governmental organisations, as well as thematic chapters.

Booklet - Practical impact

Booklet - Stock-taking of the 3rd round
Format: A4 - 50 pages - PDF
The stock-taking of the third evaluation round on the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings presents a horizontal review of the 35 country evaluation reports adopted by GRETA under this round by the end of 2023.
- English
- French (soon available)

Labour exploitation
Preventing and combating trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation - Recommendation CM/Rec(2022)21 of the Committee of Ministers to member States (2023)
Compendium of good practices in addressing trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation (2020)
Guidance Note on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation (2020)
Human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation - Thematic Chapter of the 7th General Report on GRETA’s Activities (2017)
Emerging good practices by state authorities, the business community and civil society on preventing human trafficking in the business practices and supply chains (2016)
Study on demand reduction measures to combat trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation through the engagement of the private sector (2016)
See also:
Human Rights and Business - Recommendation CM/Rec(2016)3 of the Committee of Ministers to member States (2016)

Recovery and reflection period

Online and technology-facilitated trafficking
Online and technology-facilitated trafficking in human beings (2022)

Risks related to the war against Ukraine

International protection

Assistance to victims

Trafficking in children

Trafficking in organs

Non-Punishment
Non-Punishment of Victims/Survivors of Human Trafficking in Practice: A Case Study of the United Kingdom (2023)
Format : A4 - 67 pages - PDF
Within the framework of anti-trafficking cooperation projects implemented by the Council of Europe, country-specific publications have been produced, as well as translations of certain publications mentioned above.