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Relevant Documents regarding trafficking in Human Beings

Convention concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour , 1957

  • Conventions concerning women protection

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979
Optional Protocol. 1999

  • Conventions concerning child protection

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, 2000

Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999

  • Conventions against trafficking


International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, concluded at Geneva on 30 September 1921, as amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 12 November 1947

International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age, concluded at Geneva on 11 October 1933, as amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 12 November 1947

Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 1949

Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000

Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

Protocol against the smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

  • UNICEF

World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
Yokohama, 17-20 December 2001
"The Yokohama Global Commitment 2001"

CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND THE LAW
A REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND CURRENT NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE AND ENFORCEMENT RESPONSES

Beyond Yokohama: Combating Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

' Trafficking in Human Beings in Southeastern Europe'
Report by Barbara Limanowska (United Nations Children's Fund; United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe/Office for the Democratic Institutions and Human Rights)

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Appeal Judgement on Allegations of Contempt against prior Counsel, Milan Vujin
27 February 2001

  • Information from Interpol

Czech Republic
Endangering of morality’, Article 205 of the Criminal Code

Estonia
Possessing, holding and spreading a work of erotic or pornographic content or one propagating violence or cruelty’, Article 200 of the Penal Code

Hungary
La production de pornographie illicite, Article 195A du Code Pénal

Latvia
‘Brake of the rules on pornographic material, import, production or distribution’, Article 166 (2) - (3) and 209 of the Penal Code

Malta
Offence relating to pornographic or obcene articles’, Article 208 of the Criminal Code

Poland
The new Polish Penal Code, coming into force in 1998, provides the following (article 202)

Romania
‘La diffusion de matériaux obscènes’, Article 325 du Code Pénal

Slovakia
Legal protection of children, § 204-205 of the Penal Code

Slovenia
Presentation and manufacturing of pornographic material’, Section 187 (Chapter 19) of the Penal Code

Turkey
Article 426-428 of the Turkish Criminal Code

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