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Trafficking in Women and Children

Document number
1874
Date
2005
Title
Trafficking in Women and Children
Author/publisher
Justice Nimfa Cuesta Vilches
Availability
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Document type(s)
Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
Keywords
Delivered by: Justice Nimfa Cuesta Vilches at the 4th World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights 20-23 March, 2005, Cape Town, South Africa
Summary
It is about time for the international community to rework their understanding of “jurisdiction”,
“work and labor”, and even “advertising.” Every criminal justice system must be geared up to
appreciate novel forms of evidence such as in the way child pornography particularly that in the
internet, recent crackdown of which having been recently made in 6 European countries, will
have to be proven during trial. With the proliferation of cyber-sex, international legal experts, in
their attempt to hold everyone in the trafficking trade liable regardless of the nature of
complicity, may revise the context of the crime of adultery
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