Identify the major challenges to international efforts to eradicate human trafficking. In your discussion, identify what is currently being done by the international community to address human trafficking and discuss the obstacles these efforts face in implementation. In other words, what are the challenges international organizations, such as the United Nations, face when trying to end human trafficking?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should identify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (the Palermo Protocol) and/or the 2000 Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Issues regarding implementation include: lack of convergence with local laws, growth of opportunity due to changing technology, manufacturing, travel/borders, etc., continued demand from consumers/users, poverty/desperation driving individuals towards traffickers, cultural norms (particularly gender/sexuality norms) which marginalize certain communities, etc.
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