The Use of Indicators to Measure Government Responses to Human Trafficking

The Use of Indicators to Measure Government Responses to Human Trafficking

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This chapter explores the main efforts to produce compliance-focused indicators that can help improve international treaties against human trafficking. It shows that the power held by the US State Department (the organization that tried to pursue such indicators) is used unilaterally, and that this unilateralism can overcome a collective action problem. It then examines other functions of unilateralism, and shows that the indicators for human trafficking created by the US State Department are produced using criteria set by the US legislation.

ISBN

9780199658244

Publication Date

2012

Book Title

Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Qualification and Ranking

Publisher

Oxford Scholarship Online

Disciplines

Human Rights Law | International Humanitarian Law | International Law | Law

The Use of Indicators to Measure Government Responses to Human Trafficking

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