UNIFEM-East and Southeast Asia Regional Office and the United Nations Inter-agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Mekong Sub-region

This briefing kit examines the trafficking of women and girls in Southeast Asia. It begins by looking at the demand and supply factors that encourage and perpetuate trafficking, and the abuses and stresses that women face during and after trafficking. The report emphasizes the importance of a gender-responsive, rights-based approach to trafficking that is "responsive to gender differences and disparities, and focused on realizing human rights equitably and hence equally for women and men".