scholarly journals Prevention of Human Trafficking in Ethiopia: Assessing The Legal Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zelalem Shiferaw Woldemichael
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The Government

Recent findings have indicated that both in-country trafficking (trafficking of individuals from rural areas to relatively affluent towns and cities) and external trafficking (trafficking of individuals from a given country to foreign countries) are prevalent in Ethiopia. In 2012, the government acceded to the Protocol to Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (The UN Trafficking Protocol, here after). With a view to giving effect to the requirements of this instrument, the government passed in to law Proclamation No. 909/2015 (The Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants Proclamation), which is the most comprehensive of all laws adopted in Ethiopia to deal with human trafficking. Taking in to account the fact that human trafficking is exacerbated by the absence of regulatory framework on the employment of Ethiopian nationals in foreign countries, the govern-ment has also brought in to practice Proclamation No. 923/2016 (Ethiopia’s Overseas Employment Proclamation). This article has examined whether the above-mentioned laws of Ethiopia comply with international standards in dealing with prevention strategies.

Labour Exploitation in Human Trafficking Law

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Weatherburn
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
Labour Exploitation ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Agreed Definition

The 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime provides the first internationally agreed definition of the human trafficking. However, in failings to clarify the exact scope and meaning of exploitation, it has created an ambiguity as to what constitutes exploitation of labour in criminal law. <br>The international definition's preference for an enumerative approach has been replicated in most regional and domestic legal instruments, making it difficult to draw the line between exploitation in terms of violations of labour rights and extreme forms of exploitation such as those listed in the Protocol. <br><br>This book addresses this legal gap by seeking to conceptualise labour exploitation in criminal law.

MIGRANTS AS POTENTIAL VICTIMS OF CRIME: VICTIMOLOGICAL ASPECT

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
Yury A. Kuzmin
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Multiple Risks ◽  
Legal Situation ◽  
Women And Children

The problem of preventing crime against migrants is updated. The urgency of issues related to preventing crimes against migrants as the main factor of criminality prevention in general is substantiated. The relevance of the topic is caused by the fact that in modern conditions, the attitude to migrants in accordance with the norms of international law is equally ambivalent. Migrants are exposed to numerous risks of victimization, and many of them suffer from victimization – sometimes repeatedly, and sometimes even systematically. Such risks of victimization can be classified together with their individual background of emigration and immigration. The two main types of criminal behaviour that is of interest to criminal policy – human trafficking and human smuggling – are addressed in the two Amendment Protocols to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Convention): the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air. In the latter document, migrants are perceived as offenders, not as victims, especially in legal treatment of smuggling. This is justified by the fact that migrants represent a demand for smuggling services, and this demand is considered the main incentive for this branch of organized crime, including transnational one. However, current legal situation – both the international legal framework and the legal provisions applied in the main jurisdictions – does not reflect the victimological reality of migration. The distinction between human trafficking and people smuggling (trafficking) creates a significant gap in the treatment of victims. The same is true of public, political and academic discussions that tend to ignore the reality of migration, which is characterized by the fact that not only victims of trafficking, but migrants in general, are clearly vulnerable and are at multiple risks of victimization. The problem of preventing crime against migrants is that it is hardly possible to justify a politically motivated dividing victims of criminal acts into two groups (trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants) in order to achieve two different standards of protection, especially in light of the enormous risks of victimization to which all migrants are exposed.

scholarly journals Human trafficking in domestic legislature

Temida ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
Zdravko Skakavac ◽  
Tatjana Simic
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Domestic Law ◽  
International Document ◽  
National Legislature

Human trafficking is an occurrence that, even in our time, is present in alarming proportions, in its actuality and consequences. It is a phenomenon with a long history and has been qualified as a serious international problem and is the object of interest for a large number of international subjects. However, the key international document that defines this phenomenon is the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime from Palermo 2000; specifically its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children. After its adoption, intensive actions were undertaken to regulate the phenomenon on the level of national legislature. It's done so in the local legislature too. According to the criminal law of the republic of Serbia, besides the concrete law against human trafficking, a number of other crimes are connected to human trafficking. This paper deals with the most important ones. The purpose of this paper is to review the legislature on the phenomenon in the domestic law, then the accordance of incrimination with international standards, as well as to indicate the need for further changes in domestic legislature.

INTERNATIONAL AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR COMBATING CORRUPTION CRIMES RELATED TO GIVING AND PASSING BRIBES AND OTHER TYPES OF ILLEGAL REMUNERATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Павел Владимирович Никонов
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Illegal Acts ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Criminal Legislation

Международные нормативные правовые акты имеют особое значение для организации противодействия коррупционным преступлениям, связанным с дачей и получением взятки и иных видов незаконного вознаграждения. В статье анализируются международно-правовые документы, призванные обеспечить единый подход к противодействию указанным видам противоправных деяний в различных государствах. Международное сообщество озабочено решением проблем, связанных с противодействием коррупции. В этом отношении Россия не является исключением, поэтому ратифицирует основные международно-правовые акты, регламентирующие вопросы борьбы с коррупционными преступлениями. Интеграционные процессы, происходящие в настоящее время, обуславливают необходимость обращения к международному опыту в области противодействия указанным видам преступлений. При подготовке материала научной статьи применялся сравнительно-правовой метод исследования, что позволило получить обоснованные выводы относительно сравнения международных и российских нормативных правовых актов. В статье анализируются положения таких источников, ратифицированных Россией, как Конвенция Организации Объединенных Наций против коррупции, Конвенция против транснациональной организованной преступности, Конвенция об уголовной ответственности за коррупцию, Конвенция по борьбе с подкупом иностранных должностных лиц при осуществлении международных коммерческих сделок. В качестве полученных результатов проведенного исследования можно признать заключения относительно соответствия уголовного законодательства Российской Федерации, созданных органов и реализуемых мер, направленных на организацию борьбы с коррупционными преступлениями, связанными с дачей и получением взятки и иными видами незаконного вознаграждения, рассмотренным международным стандартам. International legal regulation is of prime importance in countering corruption crimes related to giving and receiving bribes and other types of illegal remuneration. The article analyzes international legal documents designed to ensure the same approach to countering these types of illegal acts in different states. The international community is concerned about solving problems related to combating corruption. Russia is no exception, therefore it ratifies the main international legal acts regulating the fight against corruption crimes. The integration processes taking place at the present time necessitate taking into account the international experience of countering these types of crimes. The comparative legal research method was used, this made it possible to obtain well-grounded conclusions regarding the comparison of international and Russian normative legal acts. The article analyzes the provisions of international documents ratified by Russia: the United Nations Convention against Corruption, the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, and the Convention against Bribery of Foreign Officials in International Business Transactions. The findings on the compliance of the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation, existing bodies and measures taken in the field of combating corruption crimes related to giving and receiving bribes and other types of illegal remuneration to international standards as the results of the study are indicated.

Human Trafficking and China: Challenges of Domestic Criminalisation and Interpretation

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-177
Author(s):  
Bonny Ling
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
High Profile ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women And Children

In recent years, the Chinese government has notably begun to address the issue of trafficking in persons through several high-profile national initiatives. The State Council of the People’s Republic of China released the country’s first national anti-trafficking plan in December 2007, followed by China’s accession to the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children in February 2010. However, tackling human trafficking is a serious domestic challenge. This article argues that China’s response to its trafficking problem is obstructed by a legal definition in its criminal law that falls short of international standards. These shortfalls include the exclusion of adult male victims and predicating domestic criminalisation on the purpose of selling a person as opposed to the element of exploitation. Because the offence of trafficking is defined and applied differently in China, examining these particular aspects of the domestic criminal offence is critical to a fuller understanding of human trafficking in the country. This article discusses these important ramifications and also traces the legal history of China’s criminalisation of trafficking since the adoption of the country’s first criminal law in 1979, focusing on the disappearance of an inclusive, gender-neutral approach to the crime of human trafficking in the Chinese context.

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