Child Trafficking on Rise, Fachbücher

The international community has made great progress recently in creating a legal framework to define and prohibit human trafficking. The Palermo Protocol made a good start and has widespread support. The Council of Europe Convention tries to go further, and includes monitoring and accountability mechanisms. In order to evaluate and reconsider the present anti-trafficking legislation these two international anti-trafficking documents are compared in this work in order to find the best strategy to combat trafficking in children. It is argued that the Council of Europe Convention is not a perfect anti-trafficking instrument either but due to its special measures it offers more protection to children. Thus, it can be taken as a starting point for the rebuilding' the international legal system for preventing and combating trafficking in children, and for new national laws as well. This l.