In Tropical Research Digest: Human Right And Human Trafficking, Lindsey King
acknowledged that international Law is key channel for fighting Human
Trafficking adding that the most creditable and current tools of international law which have provided for how to define, prevent, and prosecute human trafficking are the United Nation Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its two related protocols: The United Nation Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Purnish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women And Cildren(2000) popularly known as the palermo protocol, and the United Nation Protocol Against Smuggling Of Migrant By Land, Sea And Air(2006). Others include Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings(2005),International Labour Organization convention Convention on forced Labour (1930).However other conventions and treaties at both international and regional levels that seek to address the urgly menace of human trafficking do exist.
The United Nation Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children has its objective in preventing trafficking; protect victims of this dehumanizing act, and encouraging cooperation within countries against trafficking. This protocol informed a more widely accepted definition of trafficking, ushered in a more aggressive approach, evidence in its well encompassed definition of trafficking, concerned parties responsibility to enact laws and establish policies that will bring offender to book, alongside providing humanitarian aid to victims. The United Nation Protocol against Smuggling of Migrant seeks to address the increasing number of organized crime groups that illegally convey migrants from a source to a particular destination for purpose of financial benefits to the offender and at detriment to the migrants. Through establishing instruments that presents the act as a crime, and encourage nation states to coperate in the sruggle by incoperatng laws that will discourage the act.
The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings as the name implies is a regional. As partly contained in its report (p7) states: "its aim is to achieve a greater unity among its member. Taking due account of the other international legal instruments relevant in the field of action against trafficking in human being". futhermore the purpose of the convention are fight trafficking in human beings, while ensuring gender equity, protection of human rights of victims, model a detailed structure for safeguarding and comming to aid of victims and witnesses while ensuring adequate prosecution of offenders.finally to encourage international cooperation on action against the act, (article 1 of coe convention report). This article is an indicator that the convention is geared towards ensuring that the region consolidates to impliment the provisions of the international law developement and establishments of laws that can give way to compliance among its member states .
This treaty, rather than make it concern on trafficking affect all, was only interested in favouring the white race. Also, the conventions on slave trade abolition are one that has continued to produce a ripple effect. Among them is the slavery convention (1926) and its supplementary convention. other contributing conventions are the international convention for suppress of trafficking Women and Children, the suppression of traffic in women of full age among other. This conventions were instrumental in laying foundation for the present day conventions along the commitment in curbing human trafficking