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Based largely on interviews with trafficked women, health care providers, NGOs, law enforcement officers and policymakers, this study focuses on the health risks, consequences and barriers of trafficked women in order to assess the impact of trafficking on womens physical, mental, reproductive, social and economic well-being. It examines the effect of trafficking on various aspects of womens health and human dignity at each stage of trafficking from pre-departure to integration/re-integration into society. It ends with a human rights analysis of health and trafficking, focusing on the right to health and international treaties that protect this right. The report also recommends a set of principles that promote the health rights of trafficked women. [Descriptors: Migration - Trafficking, International]