In 2008, the Republic of Argentina
sanctioned the “PREVENTION AND
PUNISHMENT OF TRAFFICKING IN
PEOPLE AND ASSISTANCE TO ITS
VICTIMS” law. In 2012 it was
modified in order to:
Increment the effective
prosecution of trafficking in
persons and its related crimes
Increase the array of rights for the
protection and comprehensive
assistance of the victims
Executive
Multi-agency
Intervention
Legislative
Judiciary
Civil Society
Punishability
Victims
Institutionalized
coordination
mechanisms
• Effective prosecution of the crime of trafficking in
persons and its related crimes
• Elimination of the value of “consent” for the
establishment of the criminal offense
• Elimination of the means defined in the Protocol
(When used they aggravate the penalty)
• Protection and comprehensive assistance of the
victims
• It is provided entirely by the State
• Non-punishability of the victim
• Federal Counsil
• Executive Committee
• National Plan for the Fight against Trafficking and
Exploitation
Comprehensive assistance of
the victims
The Argentine Republic guarantees the victims, among other rights, the following :
Medical, psychological and social attention
National Accompanying Programme to the
Victims of the Crime of Trafficking in Persons
Shelter, food, clothing
Legal counselling
National Secretariat for Childhood,
Adolescence and Family
Possibility of settlement
Possibility to return to their original countries
Local Assistance Bodies
Educational reintegration
Job training and financial support
The Argentine Republic has a compromise against taking any measure that could involve the
deprivation of liberty of any trafficking victim, including deportation.
Police
Forces
National
Department
of Migration
Control
Agencies
Assistance
bodies
Judge/
District
Attorney
Other
actors
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Federal Administration of
Public Revenues (AFIP)
Ministry of Labor
Consulates
NGO
Forces
Intra-ministerial
group of anti
trafficking
Other actors
Areas of the
Ministry
Prevent
the crime
Punish the
offenders
Protect
the
victims
Prioritize the
place of
criminal
information…
design
effective
policies…
measure
its
impact
This system aims to integrate and consolidate in a systematic and uniform way, the information
collected from procedures or tasks performed on trafficking in persons and related crimes by
Police Corps and Federal Security Forces.
Articulation with other
ACTORS (national, local,
regional, NGO)
Incorporation of new
information
SOURCES
Sharing of
INFORMATION
Routes used for
transportation
Trends
JUDICIAL
CASE
Patterns
TASKS
Modalities
VICTIMS
Mutations
Routes
OFFENDERS
Places and critical industries
SEIZED
OBJECTS
Forces performance
0800
Proactive prosecution
Dissemination
of COMPLAINT
CHANNELS
145
911
COORDINATED SYSTEM OF COMPLAINTS MANAGEMENT:
Citizens report
instances of trafficking
freely and anonymously
Unified
management
through the
MINISTRY OF
SECURITY
Coordination with the
specialized Prosecutors
Offices
. This tool was designed jointly between:
Ministry of Security
National Department of Migrations (NDM)
Through said tool migration and security agents
have been trained to detect cases of human
trafficking, mainly during the transfer stage, and
were given clear procedure guidelines.
RECRUITMENT
TRANSPORTATION
Furthermore, between the Ministry of Security and the NDM was established a general
framework of cooperation to design and develop joint activities aimed to prevent, detect
and investigate the crime.
The Guide was elaborated by the Ministry of Security of Argentina and approved by
the State members of “MERCOSUR” and their Associated States
Commitment taken by the signing States:
Share
information
Prevention
activities
Trainings
Victim’s
Profiles
Guide of
resources
Decision to allow the entrance of victims to their countries even when they do not comply
completely with the migrating requirements.
• Vehicle control
• Passengers control
• Documentation
control
• Luggage control
INTERVENTION
GUIDELINES
INDICATORS AND
GUIDE QUESTIONS
• Depending on the
vehicle type
• Useful indicators to
detect victims and
suspected offenders
• Comprehensive
assistance of the
victims
• Communication with
judiciary operators
COURSE OF ACTION
Through the analysis of information, not only was it
established that the offender usually transfer their victims
using the same routes, but also it was noticed that it was a
scenario to detect cases in a transfer stage.
In order to choose in which route a control will be done, the criminal
information collected in the “SISTRATA” constitutes an essential input.
PROTOCOL OF INTERVENTION FOR THE
RESCUE OF VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN
PERSONS
Procedure lines have been established for the
efficient rescue of victims, trying to reduce
intervention risks and to increase the possibilities of
investigation success, thus, reducing the
possibilities of secondary victimization as well
PLANNING OF THE PROCEEDING
GUIDELINES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
PROCEEDING
REGULATION ON INFORMATION COLLECTION AND
COMMUNICATION
PROTOCOL OF INTERVENTION FOR THE
RESCUE OF VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN
PERSONS
This Protocol was signed by 20 out of the
24 provinces of Argentina.
This tool develops a system that:
• Standardizes police intervention
• Facilitates articulation with judges and district
attorneys
• Incorporates Criminal Information from
provincial police forces in the “SISTRATA”
Provinces that signed the Protocol
Provinces that haven´t signed the Protocol
The document aims at standardizing the police
criteria when receiving complaints in order to
facilitate the subsequent investigation of the case.
The information which arises from the complaints is also
complied with and consolidated by the MINISTRY OF SECURITY,
and is used to complement the “SISTRATA”.
The document details a series of indicators and guide
questions, and standardizes the intervention guidelines.
Ministry of SECURITY
Result of the procedures
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Jan - March
2013
653
399
976
169
807
430
525
732
126
72
199
45
154
80
109
36
1708
235
RAIDS
129
256
376
PEOPLE UNDER ARREST
155
267
299
Child victims
58
84
81
Adult victims
128
-
338
-
488
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
540
322
938
152
786
215
723
694
186
422
569
1632
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS victims
Evidence of SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
Evidence of FORCED LABOUR
RELATED OFFENCES victims
Total victims rescued
Total victims rescued
1177
3575
Source: Ministry of Security based on SisTrata information on 2011/12/13 years and information provided by the Rescue and
Support Office for Victims of Trafficking (years 2008, 2009 and 2010).
Specialized
Prosecutor's Office
(since 2008)
100
offenders
convicted
500
suspects
indicted
Paula Honisch