Legal Initiatives in anti-trafficking interventions

Touches on the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children and the US anti-trafficking law (TVPA)

• Critiques US TVPA for focusing primarily on trafficking for prostitution and sexual exploitation, although notes that the law is fairly comprehensive compared to other countries
• 'Focuses paper on 3 areas:
  1. The domestication of the Protocol
  2. The process of implementing anti-trafficking laws nationally
  3. Prosecution of traffickers' (3)