labour in the Asia Pacific region than in any other part of the world with the ILO estimating that 9.5 million people in our region experience this kind of human rights abuse. While statistics are truly unknowable, we can rely on official government statistics to explain the dimension of trafficking in Australia. The Australian Government reports that for the period January 2004 to April 2009, 131 people accessed the support for victims of people trafficking program, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship referred 287 suspected victims of trafficking to the Australian Federal Police for assessment and the Australian Federal Police investigated over 270 allegations of trafficking. The 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report (US Department of State) says that men and women from the Asia Pacific region, including India, China South Korea and the Philippines are recruited by unscrupulous employers and labour contractors to work in forced labour in agriculture, viticulture, construction, and other sectors. Currently at the Anti Slavery Project, we have 80 clients and the profile of our clients is consistent with what is known about the overall pattern of trafficking in Australia. Most of our clients are women from the Asia Pacific region. The majority were trafficked into Australia from Thailand, the Republic of Korea and Malaysia. Others are from China, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Most were trafficked into sexual servitude, and some were subject to manifestly unreasonable debts, others were trafficked into forced labour in the commercial hospitality industry, or domestic servitude, either through a relationship or through another visa type. In Australia, most media and community focus on trafficking is on trafficking for sexual servitude, rather than other forms of trafficking and exploitation. As a result, identifying and protecting all victims of trafficking, regardless of the form of the exploitation, is an ongoing challenge. This is especially difficult as most trafficked people in Australia are migrant workers, holding genuine travel documents, and appropriate visas with permission to work. Ⅲ. Human rights protection and victim support in Australia Australian Government Action Plan 2004 After considerable agitation from community, media and the establishment of a Parliamentary Inquiry into Trafficking in Australia, the Australian Government implemented the Action Plan to Eradicate Trafficking in Persons in 2004. Prior to the implementation of the Action Plan, the focus was on identifying unlawful non‐citizens for immigration compliance purposes, while traffickers had effective immunity from Australian laws. The Government’s Action Plan was said to have four central pillars – prevention, detection and investigation, criminal prosecution, and victim support and rehabilitation. 70 ❙ Seoul International Conference Against Human Trafficking in Migrant Women