If, on the one hand, international pressure and aid to fight trafficking contributed to a large extent to achievements in this area, on the other hand prioritizing anti-trafficking initiatives, especially those that can yield quick and tangible results together with those more closely associated with migration control, have distracted from looking at underlying variables linked to trafficking, including socio-economic exclusion, previous incidents of violence and abuse and other root causes, which the establishment of protection mechanisms would help to address.
If, on the one hand, international pressure and aid to fight trafficking contributed to a large extent to achievements in this area, on the other hand prioritizing anti-trafficking initiatives, especially those that can yield quick and tangible results together with those more closely associated with migration control, have distracted from looking at underlying variables linked to trafficking, including socio-economic exclusion, previous incidents of violence and abuse and other root causes, which the establishment of protection mechanisms would help to address.