Trafficking in human beings
Subtitle: modern slavery
By: Silvia Scarpa.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780199541904
Subjects: Human trafficking; Human trafficking -- Prevention -- International cooperation
Description: This text analyses the various international legal instruments regulating people trafficking including treaties, 'soft law' and the definition contained in the UN Trafficking Protocol, and argues that trafficking in persons ought rightly to be considered a part of jus cogens.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Trafficking in persons as one of the XXI century's new forms of slavery; title: The international abolition of slavery and the slave trade and the action against trafficking in human beings; title: Trafficking victim's protection in international human rights, criminal and labour law; title: The fight against trafficking in persons and victim's protection in the Council of Europe; title: The European Union and trafficking in persons : from traffickers' prosecution to victims' protection?