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BOJANA BOGOJEVIC Law and Corporate Governance Lawyer, Post-Grad Specialist for Corporate Governance, UN Climate Teacher, and Author
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
18.10.2020 was the 14th EU Anti-Trafficking Day. As a Lawyer, it’s my obligation to educate or remind you that trafficking in persons is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. The United Nations defines human trafficking as: “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 a position of vulnerability or the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.” I can be free and say it is a global problem. It is almost impossible to find a country which isn’t affected by some trafficking because it can be affected as country of origin, a transit country and final destination for trafficking victims. Sometimes one country can be a combination of all those three stages. The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, adopted by General Assembly resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000, is the leading international instrument in the fight against transnational organized crime. It opened for signature by the Member States at a High-level 26 | eYs Magazine, December 2020
Political Conference convened for that purpose in Palermo, Italy, on 12-15 December 2000 and entered into force on 29 September 2003. The Convention is further supplemented by three Protocols, which target specific areas and manifestations of organized 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. The Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition. Countries must become parties to the Convention itself before they can become parties to any of the Protocols. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Web Site (UNODC) assists States in their efforts to implement the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Person (Trafficking in Persons Protocol). The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, was adopted by
