Trafficking in human beings : modern slavery / Silvia Scarpa.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Human trafficking.

Slavery.

Human trafficking -- Prevention -- International cooperation.

1. --2. --3. --4. --5. Trafficking in persons as one of the XXI century's new forms of slavery The international abolition of slavery and the slave trade and the action against trafficking in human beings Trafficking victims' protection in international human rights, criminal and labour law The fight against trafficking in persons and victims' protection in the Council of Europe The European Union and trafficking in persons: from traffickers' prosecution to victims' protection?

This book examines trafficking in persons in the light of the recent definition of the phenomenon by the relevant United Nations Protocol. It analyses trafficking causes and consequences, and the most common forms of exploitation related to it.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Oxford scholarship online. Law collection.

9780199541904

0199541906

xxxv, 230 p. ; 24 cm