| The recently adopted UN Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking
in Persons, Especially Women and Children,
supplementing the UN Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime, includes
a definition of trafficking which also serves
as the project's working definition of trafficking:
'Trafficking in persons means ‘the recruitment,
transportation, transfer, harbouring or
receipt of persons, by means of threat or
use of force or other forms of coercion,
of abduction, of fraud, or deception, of
the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability
or of giving or receiving or payments or
benefits to achieve the consent of a person
having control over another person, for
the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation
shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation
of the prostitution of others or other forms
of sexual exploitation, forced labour or
services, slavery or practices similar to
slavery, servitude or the removal of organs;
The consent of a victim of trafficking
in persons to the intended exploitation
[ …] shall be irrelevant where any of [these]
means are used;
The recruitment, transportation, transfer,
harbouring or receipt of a child for the
purpose of exploitation shall be considered
‘trafficking in persons’ even if this does
not involve any of [these] means’.
The following international legislation
is of relevance to the issue of trafficking
in Southeast Asia and to the project:
- Synopsis of International Laws Relevant
to Trafficking
By Mr. Tim de Meyer, ILO-IPEC
Download as PDF
Document (119KB)
|
