Trafficking in Human Beings Modern Slavery

Author: Silvia Scarpa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199541904
Published In: July 2008
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The first monograph study of the increasingly important phenomena of people trafficking,
Incorporates historical and social context with analysis of international legal instruments, treaties, and jus cogens

In recent decades the international community has focused its attention on trafficking in persons, one of the most worrying phenomena of the 21st century. In Part I, this book examines trafficking in persons in the light of the recent definition of the phenomenon given by the UN Trafficking Protocol, and various other international legal instruments including treaties and 'soft law'. It analyses trafficking causes and consequences, and the most common forms of exploitation related to it.

Part II reviews the most important international conventions against slavery and the slave trade, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. It also analyses the most important policy documents setting the basic standards of protection for trafficked victims - namely the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights' Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking - and comments on the extension of the jus cogens principle of international law that prohibits slavery, to argue that trafficking in persons ought rightly to be considered a part of it.

Part III deals with the Council of Europe and the European Union, and their fight against trafficking in people, arguing that the focus has been placed mistakenly on the prosecution of traffickers rather than on the protection of trafficked victims.

The book concludes with a recommendation to shift towards a more balanced approach to trafficking in persons, and the overriding need to conduct further research on specific issues related to the spread of trafficking and the exploitation of its victims.

Readership: Academics, scholars, and advanced students of international human rights law, international criminal law, the UN, and universal jurisdiction

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Part I: What is Trafficking in Persons?

1: Trafficking in Persons as one of the 21st Century's New Forms of Slavery

Part II: The Universal Legislation on Trafficking in Human Beings

2: The International Action on Trafficking in Human Beings

3: The Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Trafficking in Human Beings in International Human Rights, Migration, Criminal, and Labour Law

Part III: European Legislation on Trafficking in Human Beings

4: The Fight Against Trafficking in Persons and Victims' Protection in the Council of Europe

5: The Activity of the European Union in the Field of Trafficking in Human Beings

Conclusions and Recommendations

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Silvia Scarpa, Lecturer in International Law at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy) for the Academic Year 2007-2008 and Research Fellow at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Study of Pisa (Italy)

"The author provides a detailed and up-to-date overview of the various international anti-trafficking frameworks in a monograph that manages to highlight the tremendous proliferation of international legal instruments, practices, mechanisms and actors in the anti-trafficking field" - Heli Askola, Monash University, International Journal of Refugee Law, 22.1