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Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing The United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

 

  • Palermo Protocol outlines protocol for working with victims of trafficking and prosecution of offenders
  • Includes definitions, for example meaning of 'trafficking in persons'
  • Organized into four provisions
    • I. General Provisions
    • II. Protection of Victims
    • III. Prevention, Cooperation, and Other Measures
    • IV. Final Provisions

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Adopted in 1948 by 58 member states of the United Nations, UDHR defines human rights as fundamental to all human beings and requires governments to take actions to protect human rights of all beings.

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

 

  • The purpose of Optional Protocol is to further achieve the purposes of the Convention of the Child of 1989 and the implementation of its provisions
  • Details and extends the appropriate measures that States Parties should undertake in order to guarantee the protection of the child from the sale of children, child prostitution, and child pornography
  • Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts