This Guide is part of a wider initiative with the purpose to address the need for a broader and more updated set of guiding principles for counter-trafficking research, implement the Ethics and Human Rights in Counter-Trafficking set of seven guiding principles and practical tools, develop practical tools for researchers and programmers to ease the integration of ethical practices in day-to-day counter-trafficking research and programming, disseminate the guidelines and tools to implementing partners and donors around the world to test.