What UN Palermo Protocol 2000 - Trafficking in Persons Definition, Prosecution, Protection and Prevention requires
The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol or Trafficking Protocol), supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), was adopted by UN General Assembly resolution 55/25 on 15 November 2000 and entered into force on 25 December 2003. The Protocol provides the first universally agreed definition of trafficking in persons in Article 3(a): the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Article 5 obligates State Parties to criminalise trafficking. The Protocol takes a 3P approach: Prosecution (Articles 5-8 criminalisation and prosecution), Protection (Articles 6-8 victim assistance, status, repatriation), and Prevention (Articles 9-13 social-economic prevention, cooperation, border measures). As of 2024, 181 States are Parties. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) provides secretariat support; the Group of Friends United against Human Trafficking and ICAT (Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons) provide multi-agency coordination.
Pillar: Immigration & Border Control · Authority: UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) - secretariat for UNTOC and Trafficking Protocol; Conference of the Parties to UNTOC and its Working Group on Trafficking in Persons; ICAT (Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons) · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
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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, adopted by UN General Assembly resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000, entered into force 25 December 2003; 2237 UNTS 319 - Article 3 definition, 5 criminalisation, 6-8 victim protection, 9-13 prevention and cooperation
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), adopted 15 November 2000, entered into force 29 September 2003; 2225 UNTS 209 - parent Convention with umbrella provisions on criminalisation, mutual legal assistance, extradition, and corporate liability supplementing Trafficking Protocol
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