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Organizational Actions to Combat Human Trafficking and the Rise of Trafficking Litigation
Beginning in 2011, hoteliers began to sign the 2004 ECPAT “Code of Conduct,” reaffirming their commitment to fight child trafficking.84 There is no empirical evidence, however, that any of the ECPAT countermeasures have diminished human trafficking incidents or improve the likelihood of correct identification. For instance, in 2011, a Campbell Systematic Review entitled, “Cross-border Trafficking in Human Beings: Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Reducing Sexual Exploitation,” determined that “[n]o studies were found that met all criteria (prevention and suppression strategies, cross-border trafficking, sexual exploitation and a design of at least level 3 of the Maryland Scientific Method Scale (SMS), i.e., a controlled design with both pretest and posttest measures and comparable control conditions.).”85
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NCL staff. “Hyatt Signs ‘The Code.’” National Consumers League, 2015, www.nclnet.org/hyatt_the_code.
van der Laan P, Smit M, Busschers I, Aarten P. Cross-border trafficking in human beings: prevention and intervention strategies for reducing sexual exploitation. Campbell Systematic Reviews 2011:9
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