Trafficking
The Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women, the international Human Rights Law Group and the Foundation Against Trafficking in Women together with international NGOs have developed a definition for trafficking to include:-
“all acts and attempted acts involved in recruitment, transportation within or across borders, purchase, sale, transfer, receipt or harbouring of a person involving the use of deception, coercion (including the use or threat of force or the abuse of authority) or debt bondage for the purpose of placing or holding such a person, whether for pay or not, in involuntary servitude (domestic, sexual or reproductive) in forced bonded labour or in slavery-like conditions in a community other than the one in which such person lived at the time of the original deception, coercion or debt bondage.”
International Covenants and Conventions
- History of International Covenants for suppresion of Trafficking.
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- International Labour Convention No. 182.
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Beijing Platform for Action
- Brussels Declaration on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings.
- UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, of (Trafficking Protocol).
- UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, of 2000
- Council of Europe Convention.
- United States law.
Asia
- Bangkok Accord and Plan of Action – 1998.
- ASEAN Declaration on Transnational Crime - 1997
- SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution – 2002
Legislation from Asia Region
1. India
a. ITPA 1956
b. SITA 1956
2. Philippines
3. Pakistan
4. Sri Lanka
5. Bangladesh
6. Nepal
7. Singapore
8. Myanmar
9. Cambodia
10. Laos
11. Vietnam
12. Malaysia
13. Thailand
14. Japan
15. China
