Trafficking for sexual exploitation and the challenges of intervention: The price of human rights

Date

2019

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Verlag Barbara Budrich

Abstract

Unlike domestic violence and child abuse and neglect, the obligations of the state with regard to human trafficking are spelled out specifically in international and regional law; thus, the frameworks for intervention in this area can only be understood against that background. Even so, as will be seen, while the implementation strategies adopted by the four countries in the CEINAV study [Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, England] vary they nonetheless share a common weakness with regard to the human rights of victims…. The four participating countries have all ratified the two primary international and regional instruments that set out the obligations binding participating States. These are respectively the United Nations (UN 2000) Palermo Protocol Against Trafficking in Human Beings, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol), and the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (CETS 2005). They are therefore required to implement compliant domestic law and, particularly with regard to CETS, to ensure all measures also meet the requirements and standards set out therein.… All countries in CEINAV have criminalised trafficking in persons, retaining the dominant crime framework established in international law. Yet within that overarching framework, the offence of trafficking is framed differently within each of the four countries. (Author Text)

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Keywords

child abuse, Commercial Exploitation of Children, law, policy, International Resources, prevention

Citation

Turner, Jackie. (2019). Trafficking for sexual exploitation and the challenges of intervention: the price of human rights. In: Carol Hagemann-White ; Liz Kelly ; Thomas Meysen (eds.). (2019). Interventions Against Child Abuse and Violence Against Women: Ethics and culture in practice and policy. Verlag Barbara Budrich. pages 104-118.

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