Victim Identification Procedures in Cambodia

This Report addresses the context of trafficking in human beings in Cambodia and the process by which trafficking victims are identified and assisted. Cambodia’s current anti‐trafficking field is crowded with various government, non‐government, and international institutions each administering its own response to the problem of trafficking and the challenge of victim assistance. It assesses the successes and shortcomings of different approaches to identifying victims, providing support services, and ensuring access to justice. This Assessment evaluates the viability of a national referral mechanism, whereby the diversity of approaches could be streamlined into a single cooperative framework. Ultimately, a national referral mechanism would strengthen Cambodia’s responsiveness to trafficking victims by providing standardized processes for victim identification, assistance, and referral therein replacing the inefficiency of competing approaches.