Once trafficked, victims are often stripped of all their documentation, threatened with bodily harm towards themselves and in some cases also their families. This makes them even more vulnerable and unable to escape their traffickers. Often even the law enforcement agencies will classify persons who have been trafficked as criminals themselves, breaking immigration laws and are therefore unwilling to assist them, and often end up deporting them back to their own country where they will be more susceptible to get caught again by traffickers.

In order to protect victims of trafficking adequately it is necessary to provide some form of measures of recovery whether it be psychological or physical. It is also important that the victims are given opportunities of integration such as regularization of they status, employment, training, housing and medical care. In order to crack down on trafficking, it is important that governments and law enforcement agencies protect the identities of victims, and gain their confidence in order to assure that the traffickers are not able to threaten the victims into not speaking, and therefore hindering prosecution.

Governments and NGOs need to work together to make sure that victims of trafficking are detected and given all the support they need, whether through rehabilitation centers, or phone hotlines available to for victims to receive the information they need to move forward.