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The Effectiveness of Legal Frameworks and Anti-Trafficking Legislation. Background Paper

Document number
1448
Date
2008
Title
The Effectiveness of Legal Frameworks and Anti-Trafficking Legislation. Background Paper
Author/publisher
Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations (UN)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
Keywords
UN GIFT, United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, The Vienna Forum to fight Human Trafficking
Summary
This background paper is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the challengesthat States encounter in implementing the TIP Protocol. Rather, it seeks to raise someof the issues and complexities with which States must grapple in combating traffickingin their domestic contexts. By offering examples from different countries to showcasehow different legal systems have mounted their legislative response against humantrafficking, this paper seeks not to prescribe solutions, but rather to describechallenges. In raising points of discussion on these intersecting legislative challenges,it is hoped that awareness will be raised and understanding will be deepened amongpolicy decision makers and legislators, concerning the need for comprehensivelegislative responses to complicated human trafficking issues.
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