Published in March 2019
This module is a resource for lecturers
Core reading
This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.
Materials with this icon can be found in the E4J Library of Resources.
- Allain, Jean (2014). No Effective Trafficking Definition Exists: Domestic Implementation of the Palermo Protocol. 7 Albany Government Law Review 111.
- Gallagher, Anne T. (2010). The International Law of Human Trafficking . Cambridge University Press.
- Interagency Working Group in Luxemburg (2016). Terminology Guidelines for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse .
- Jones, Samuel V. (2012). Human Trafficking Victim Identification: Should Consent Matter? 45 Indiana Law Review 483.
- Mattar, Mohamed Y. (2013). Article 43 of the Arab Charter on Human Rights: Reconciling National, Regional and International Standards . 26 Harvard Human Rights Journal 91.
- Mattar, Mohamed Y. (2006). Incorporating the Five Basic Elements of a Model Anti- Trafficking in Persons Legislation in Domestic Laws: From the United Nations Protocol to the European Convention. 14 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 357.
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003). Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking .
- Pratt, Laura (2012). Hidden in Plain Sight: A General Overview of the Human Trafficking Issue . 50 Willamette Law Review 115.
- The Protection Project (2006), Comprehensive Legal Approaches to Combatting Trafficking in Persons: An International and Comparative Perspective .
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2018). Global Report on Trafficking in Persons.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2013). The Abuse of a position of vulnerability and other "means" within the definition of trafficking in persons (Issue Paper) .
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2015). The Concept of 'Exploitation' in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol (Issue Paper) .
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2014). The Role of 'Consent' in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol (Issue Paper).
- Weitzer, Ronald (2014). New Directions in Research on Human Trafficking . 16 William Mary Journal of Women and the Law 753.
International Instruments
- Convention against Transnational Crime , 2000
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children , 2000
- Convention on the Rights of the Child , 1989
- Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of Prostitution of Others , 1949
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women , 1979
- Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, 1990
- Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery, 1926
- Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966
- Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 1993
- Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Inter-Country Adoption, 1993
- ILO Convention No 182 on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, 2000
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, 2000
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
- Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 1956
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
Regional instruments
- European Union Directive on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims . (DIRECTIVE 2011/36/EU).
- ASEAN Convention Against TIP, Especially Women and Children and accompanying Plan of Action
- Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, 2005
- SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution
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