Addressing trafficking in persons requires knowledge, commitment and action. This course will provide you with the essential foundations and practical skills to understand this global phenomenon, respond to its challenges and contribute to protecting the rights of trafficked persons.
This course is open to all audiences from all backgrounds and is intended for individuals who are not part of IOM’s staff or auxiliary workforce. It welcomes practitioners, students, researchers, civil society actors, government representatives and anyone interested in building their understanding of trafficking in persons and strengthening their capacity to address it.
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Learning modality: Self-paced |
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Date: Available all year |
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Duration: Approximately 5 hours |
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Language: English |
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Cost: Free |
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Geographical Coverage: Global |
Choose Your Path to Mastery!
The Counter Trafficking Essentials e-learning course is available in multiple versions tailored to specific target audiences.
If you are an external E‑Campus user (not part of IOM staff or the IOM auxiliary workforce), please proceed with this current version.
If not, use the buttons below to jump straight to the version designed for you:
IOM developed this unique e-learning course for Humanitarian Personnel which can include Government entities, UN agencies, international and local NGOs, that respond to humanitarian crises. It is designed for audiences who may be familiar with humanitarian responses but are unfamiliar with anti-trafficking interventions in humanitarian responses. The course should be informative to anyone involved with anti-trafficking interventions in contexts affected by crisis.
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Learning modality: Self-paced |
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Date: Available all year |
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Duration: Approximately 3 hours |
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Language: English |
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Cost: Free |
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Geographical Coverage: Global |
Humanitarian crises may exacerbate pre-existing trafficking trends and give rise to new ones.
IOM developed this unique e-learning for audiences who may be familiar with humanitarian responses but are less familiar with anti-trafficking interventions in humanitarian responses. The course should be informative to anyone involved with anti-trafficking interventions in contexts affected by crisis.
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Learning modality: Self-paced |
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Date: Available all year |
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Duration: 2 hours |
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Language: English |
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Cost: Free |
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Geographical Coverage: Global |
This course addresses the definition of human trafficking and its features, as well as the difference between it and migrant smuggling and other related crimes.
It also reviews the history of this crime and explains why it is important to consider the various profiles of people who are involved in migration processes.
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Learning modality: Self-paced. 100% Online |
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Date: Available all year |
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Duration: Approximately 3 hours |
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Language: English |
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Cost: Free |
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Geographical Coverage: Latin America and The Caribbean |
Healthcare professionals may have contact with victims and potential victims of the crime of human trafficking. For this reason, they play an important role identifying eventual cases and providing care for victims in clinics, hospitals, health centers, among others. This course aims to improve the capabilities of healthcare professionals through information and practical tools. |
Learning modality: Open self-enrollment |
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Date: Available all year |
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Duration: Approximately 3 hours |
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Language: English |
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Cost: Free |
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Geographical Coverage: Global |
- Διδάσκων: Alexandra Bonnie
- Διδάσκων: Alexandra Bonnie
- Διδάσκων: Alejandra Cognuck
Frontline counter-trafficking organizations are critical to anti-trafficking efforts and the protection of survivors. They need good data to provide evidence-based services. To support this, IOM has developed the Human Trafficking Case Data Standard (HTCDS) and this complementary Standardized Human Trafficking Survivor Data Management e-learning course. The course provides a background to human trafficking (HT) and the importance of trafficking data, an introduction to the HTCDS, as well as guidance for strengthening the collection, management and use of HT survivor data. |
Learning modality: Self-paced |
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Date: Available all year |
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Duration: 2.5 hrs |
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Language: English |
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Cost: Free |
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Geographical Coverage: Global |
This course focuses on leveraging administrative data for an effective response to Trafficking in Persons (TIP) by improving the quality and integrity of TIP data. It covers international and regional frameworks governing TIP, the importance of TIP data, its lifecycle, and the challenges in its collection. The course provides an overview of the forthcoming International Classification Standard for administrative data on TIP (ICS-TIP), and guidance on data collection, management, sharing, and analysis to ensure presenting data accurately for diverse audiences.  |
Learning modality: Self-paced |
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Date: Available all year |
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Duration: 3.5 hours |
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Language: English |
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Cost: Free |
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Geographical Coverage: Global |