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Economic Hardship As Coercion Under The Protocol On International Trafficking In Persons By Organized Crime Elements, Linda A. Malone Sep 2019

Economic Hardship As Coercion Under The Protocol On International Trafficking In Persons By Organized Crime Elements, Linda A. Malone

Linda A. Malone

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United Nations Against Slavery: Unravelling Concepts, Instiutions And Obligations, Vladislava Stoyanova Dec 2016

United Nations Against Slavery: Unravelling Concepts, Instiutions And Obligations, Vladislava Stoyanova

Vladislava Stoyanova

2016 marks ninety years since the adoption of the Slavery Convention, the first multilateral treaty which provides a definition of slavery in international law and which obliges its State Parties to bring about the abolition of slavery. The latter obligation was not immediate since abolition had to be achieved only ‘progressively and as soon possible’. This qualifier testified to the overall ambivalent position of states towards abolition at that time. 2016 also marks fifty years since the adoption of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR or the Covenant). With its comprehensive territorial scope amounting to a total …

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Widening Our Lens: Incorporating Essential Perspectives In The Fight Against Human Trafficking, Jonathan Todres Oct 2014

Widening Our Lens: Incorporating Essential Perspectives In The Fight Against Human Trafficking, Jonathan Todres

Jonathan Todres

In 2000, the international community formally launched the modern movement to combat human trafficking with the United Nations' adoption of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (Trafficking Protocol). With the Trafficking Protocol, the international community created a new cornerstone upon which to build a global initiative to combat this modem form of slavery. As the first major international treaty on human trafficking in half a century, the Trafficking Protocol represented a significant step forward. One hundred forty-seven countries are now party to the …

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Submission To The Australian Parliamentary Inquiry Into Slavery, Slavery-Like Conditions And People Trafficking, Anne T. Gallagher Ao Oct 2012

Submission To The Australian Parliamentary Inquiry Into Slavery, Slavery-Like Conditions And People Trafficking, Anne T. Gallagher Ao

Anne T Gallagher

Australia has made progress in addressing the exploitation of people for profit but much remains to be done. This submission argues that Australia is missing valuable opportunities to shape global laws and policies and should be taking a stronger leadership role at the international level. In relation to the national response it suggests that the legal framework around trafficking and slavery needs to be rationalised; that Australia must lift its game with respect to criminal justice responses; and that victims of exploitation must be given better access to remedies. The submission also rejects the current conflation of trafficking and migrant …

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