The Concept of Sexual Exploitation in International Law

Abstract

Human sexual exploitation is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon, which is regulated by a number of enactments in international law The scale of organized criminal activity, which is more and more of transnational nature, has led to the signing and ratifying international conventions and agreements against sexual exploitation by most of the countries. This article provides an overview of the main international instruments of the United Nations, Council of Europe and the CIS, using the concept of sexual exploitation and regulating the features of its counteraction. Analyzing the concept of sexual exploitation, trafficking, prostitution, forms of sexual exploitation, as the principal international instruments, the author finds that the international legislator is equated with sexual exploitation trafficking in human beings, while the traffic can be not only a violation of the right to freedom of man to use his sexuality Critical evaluation is used for the controversial conceptual apparatus, the absence of a unified approach to the definition of key terms and a list of other forms of sexual exploitation, prostitution and pornography, which in the case of the implementation of international criminal law regulations may violate the uniformity in national law.