Definition of human trafficking pdf

From white slavery to trafficking: some historical remarks

While slavery has a history of thousands of years, discussion on human trafficking focusing particularly on exploitation has a much shorter history.

The modern debate on the international trade of women was started with the movement against white slavery and in an International Agreement for the Suppression of the “White Slave Traffic” was signed in Paris. The agreement aimed to protect women and girls from the “criminal traffic known as the White Slave Traffic”.

In , 13 countries signed the International Convention for the Suppression of White Slave Trade, focusing on the criminalization of trafficking (Kangaspunta ). The debate surrounding the negotiation and drafting of the White Slavery Convention was focused on white women in Europe, and therefore countries outside Europe as well as women other than white were not