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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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Submission Fiona David And Anne Gallagher Regarding Law Reform Australian Trafficking In Persons Law, Fiona M. David Ms, Anne T. Gallagher Dr Jan 2011

Submission Fiona David And Anne Gallagher Regarding Law Reform Australian Trafficking In Persons Law, Fiona M. David Ms, Anne T. Gallagher Dr

Fiona David

This is a submission made in response to a discussion paper issued by the Australian Government, "The Criminal Justice Response to Slavery and People Trafficking; Reparation; and Vulnerable Witness Protections". This submission comments on the compliance of Australian law with the UN Protocol against Trafficking in Persons, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, notes gaps in the legal framework and provides recommendations for reform.

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Labour Trafficking: Key Concepts And Issues, Fiona M. David Ms Jan 2010

Labour Trafficking: Key Concepts And Issues, Fiona M. David Ms

Fiona David

At the international level, there is no single, clear definition of ‘labour trafficking’. Arguably, the expression can be used to describe those forms of trafficking in persons of which the exploitative purpose relates to a person’s labour. There are, however, debates over the scope and meaning of these terms. This brief provides an introduction to key terms and notes some of the issues that remain less settled.

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The Insecurity Of Trafficking In International Law, Gregor Noll Jan 2007

The Insecurity Of Trafficking In International Law, Gregor Noll

Gregor Noll

The present chapter inquires into to the definition of trafficking in the 2000 Trafficking Protocol. The concept of trafficking seems to offer a self-evident point of departure to broach inequality and migration in the international domain. It emphasises the inequality between trafficker and the trafficked person, and States task themselves to side with the latter - and weaker - party in that relationship. Other dimensions of inequality, as that between migrants and States, are removed from the limelight of trafficking language. Trafficking of human beings is distinct from human smuggling: while trafficking is about non-consensual and exploitative relations between the …

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