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The Negotiations on the UN Protocol on Trafficking in Persons - Moving the Focus from Morality to Actual Conditions

Document number
1006
Date
2003
Title
The Negotiations on the UN Protocol on Trafficking in Persons - Moving the Focus from Morality to Actual Conditions
Author/publisher
Melissa Ditmoreen, Marjan Wijers
Availability
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Document type(s)
Media/News, Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports, Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Palermo protocol; Anti-trafficking measures; Crime prevention; United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; Definition (of Trafficking), Prevention, Protection, Prosecution, Vulnerability, Sexual exploitation, Labour exploitation, United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
Summary
This article focuses on the Trafficking Protocol – in full: United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime – and in particular on the NGO-lobby and the dynamics of the negotiations at the UN International Crime Commission. Both authors attended (part of) these negotiations as members of the Human Rights Caucus, an alliance of NGOs working in the field of human rights, trafficking and prostitutes’ rights. One author has an anti-trafficking background, the other is a sex workers’ rights activist.
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