INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR COOPERATION AMONG STATES IN COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Abstract

This article describes the trafficking in women and children from two standpoints - trafficking for exploitation of their labour as a form of slavery and for prostitution of these categories of the population by a third party; it also analyses international legal instruments aimed at combating trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation (in particular, the International Convention on the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, 1910; International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, 1921; Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 1949; the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989 on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000). The author defines the concept of "child prostitution", discusses the causes of trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation as international crimes relating to the categories of crimes, which violate the personal rights of a person.