Definition(s) A United Nations (UN) protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in human beings , especially women and children, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols .

The Convention is further supplemented by three Protocols, which target specific areas and manifestations of org anized crime: the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children; the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air; and the Protocol against …

The Palermo protocols are three protocols that were adopted by the United Nations to supplement the 2000 Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (the Palermo Convention). They are: the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children; and.

The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC, also called the Palermo Convention) is a 2000 United Nations-sponsored multilateral treaty against transnational organized crime.

Examples of transnational crimes include: human trafficking, people smuggling, smuggling/trafficking of goods (such as arms trafficking and drug trafficking and illegal animal and plant products and other goods prohibited on environmental grounds (e.g. banned ozone depleting substances), sex slavery, terrorism offences …

This protocol is the first global legally binding instrument with an agreed definition on trafficking in persons. In addition the protocol aimed at protecting and assisting victims of human trafficking. The protocol entered into force in 2003.

How STOP Girl Trafficking works

1. Find girls who are at risk of being trafficked.
2. Get everyone involved.
3. See them through school.
4. Stay connected.
5. Offer extra tutoring.

Article 3 of the Trafficking Protocol clarifies that trafficking in persons has three constituent elements: (1) An act (what is done); (2) The means (how it is done); and (3) Exploitative purpose (why it is done).

The three key elements that must be present for a situation of trafficking in persons (adults) to exist are therefore: (i) action (recruitment, …); (ii) means (threat, …); and (iii) purpose (exploitation).

Trafficking in Persons shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or …

Language barriers, fear of their traffickers, and/or fear of law enforcement frequently keep victims from seeking help, making human trafficking a hidden crime. Traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to lure their victims and force them into labor or commercial sexual exploitation.

Overview

• Trafficking for forced labour.
• Trafficking for forced criminal activities.
• Trafficking in women for sexual exploitation.
• Trafficking for the removal of organs.
• People smuggling.

From a global perspective there are two general categories of human trafficking: sex trafficking and labor trafficking.