NCJ Number
181472
Date Published
1999
Length
17 pages
Annotation
This report on the decisions of the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime at its sixth session (December 6-17, 1999,) pertains to the revised draft Protocol To Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Abstract
In outlining the Protocol's underlying rationale, the draft expresses the States Parties concern about the significant and increasing activities of transnational criminal organizations and others that profit from international trafficking in persons. They believe that women and children are particularly vulnerable to and targeted by transnational criminal organizations engaged in trafficking in persons. Two options are presented for the purpose of the Protocol. Both have wordings and emphases that relate to the promotion and facilitation of cooperation among States Parties to prevent, investigate, and prosecute international trafficking in persons. Two options are also presented for Article 2, the scope of application. Other articles encompass definitions; the obligation of each State Party to criminalize specified behaviors related to international trafficking in persons; assistance for and protection of victims of trafficking in persons; the status of the victim in the receiving state; the seizure and confiscation of gains; the return of victims of trafficking in persons; and victim rehabilitation. Other articles focus on law enforcement measures, border controls, the security of travel documents, verification of documents, the prevention of trafficking in persons, and cooperation with non-States Parties. 97 footnotes