The Child-Friendly Text of the United Nations Protocol to Prevent ...

The Child-Friendly Text of the
United Nations Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children
Say
o
For
Human
Trafficking
United Nations Youth Club
Mohab EL SHORBAGI
Introductory Note
Cherie Booth BLAIR
Steve CHALKE
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“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
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Introduction
To enjoy the gift of freedom and the opportunity to flourish: this right
belongs to each and every young person on earth. The good news is that today,
many children celebrate this freedom as well as the increased sense of safety and
space to thrive that it brings to them.
Yet there are still many other young people who are trapped in a world where
their freedom has been stolen from them. The tragedy is that every thirty seconds,
somewhere in the world, a child or young person is taken against their will and
trafficked into slavery.
But this is not just happening to young people; mothers and fathers, brothers and
sisters, wives and husbands, sons and daughters; are all trafficked by international
syndicates of highly organized criminals. That’s why the governments of the world
have got together to fight this massive abuse of human rights. And, that’s what
this convention is all about.
It is time for the free young people of the world to stand up and speak up for those
who cannot stand up and speak for themselves; to fight for the rights of every
person who has become a victim of the crime we call human trafficking.
Our hope is that, to give it its full title, this version of the United Nations Protocol
To Prevent, Suppress And Punish Trafficking In Persons, Especially Women And
Children, Supplementing The United Nations Convention Against Transnational
Organized Crime is a tool that will help us to do just that, as together we work to
stop the traffik.
Steve CHALKE MBE and Cherie Booth BLAIR QC
UN.GIFT and STOP THE TRAFFIK
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Contents
- About this document
- About the Protocol
- The Protocol
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About this Document
This document is a child-friendly version of the United Nations
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
Persons, Especially Women and Children.
The text was created to help make sure that we as the
children of today are well aware about the United Nations
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
Persons, Especially Women and Children.
Q&A: What is a Convention? A Convention is an agreement
between countries. When a country signs a Convention, it
becomes a legal promise and guides the actions of the
government.
Q&A: What is a Protocol? A Protocol is such a convention,
consists of articles, and protocols always comes to
complement the conventions.
About the Protocol
This Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
Persons, Especially Women and Children recognizes that our
governments must do its best not only to keep us protected
from trafficking in persons but also to take care with us once
we became victims of that crime.
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THE PROTOCOL
I. General Ideas
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The Relation between this Protocol and the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime: This Protocol complements the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
Arcle Objecves:
To prevent and combat trafficking in persons, especially women and children;
To protect and assist victims of this trade with respect for their human rights; and
To increase cooperation between the countries members of this Protocol to
achieve its goals.
Arcle , eanings of Some Words Used in this Protocol:
- Trafficking in Persons: Occurs when we treated as a product that others buy or
even sell it or at least the parts of our own bodies, and when we are exploited by
force to work without pay as slavery or work at a young age, and remove our
organs. oreover trafficking includes the exploitation of us to participate in the
war and carry weapons.
- Child: means any person less than eighteen years.
Arcle , Protocol Applicaon
This Protocol applies to the prevention of crimes of trafficking in persons, which is
made across countries as well as to the protection of the victims of these crimes.
Arcle of Punishment
The countries participate in Protocol will adopt laws to punish people who
involved in this crime.
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II. Protection trafficking in persons victims
Arcle icms of Tracking in Persons Assistance and Protecon
- Each country participate in this Protocol will protect the privacy and the data of
the human trafficking victims.
– Each country participate in this Protocol will ensure that its law is providing the
protection for human trafficking victims and help them to express their opinions.
- Each country participate in this Protocol will provide physical and psychological
care and social assistance to victims of trafficking in collaboration with nongovernmental
organizations NGOs in order to provide them with:
A - Suitable housing, B - edical and psychological care, C - Education and training
and providing them the opportunity to work.
- Each country participate in this Protocol must give attention to age, gender and
special needs of victims of trafficking in persons, especially the special needs of
children, and providing them with housing, education and care.
- Each country participate in this Protocol will provide physical care for victims of
trafficking in persons while they are inside its land.
- Each country participate in this Protocol will ensure that laws include possibility
of obtaining compensation for victims of trafficking in persons for the damage that
they suffered.
Arcle icms of Tracking in Persons Situaon in Receiving Countries
Each country participate in this Protocol will ensure the existence of the law which
would permit the remaining of the victims of trafficking within its land, temporarily
or permanently, as well as must give an attention to their human and emotional
needs.
Arcle Return the icms of Tracking in Persons to their omes
- Each country participate in this Protocol will allow the return of victims of
trafficking in persons, whether they are citizens or have the right to reside within
while maintaining their safety.
- When a country participate in this Protocol return a victim of trafficking in
persons to another country is also involved in the Protocol must give an attention
to her/his safety.
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- When the countries participate in this Protocol receiving one of the victims of
trafficking in persons it must ensure that she/he is one of its citizens or has
permanent residence on its land.
- In the absence of a proper travel papers for one of the victims of trafficking in
persons, the country which the victim belongs to or has the right to stay inside it
will agree to give him the papers to get back to its land.
& - These articles does not affect or conferred by the law of any country or any
agreement between two or more countries when be applied in the case of the
return the victims of trafficking in persons.
III: Prevention, Cooperation and other Rules
Arcle Prevenon of Tracking in Persons
- Our Countries participates in this Protocol will establish programs and do
actions to:
A - Prevent and combat trafficking in persons,
B - Protect victims of trafficking in persons, especially women and children.
- The countries members of this Protocol will do research, media campaigns
social and economic activities to prevent and combat trafficking in persons, and we
can be part of that.
- These actions and programs will organize in cooperation with nongovernmental
organizations and other organizations.
- Countries participates in this Protocol will cooperate to eliminate the conditions
that make persons, especially women and children vulnerable to trafficking such as
poverty.
- Countries members of this Protocol will cooperate together to do educational,
cultural or social activities in order to prevent the exploitation of persons,
especially women and children.
Arcle Exchange of Information and Provide Training
- Our counties will cooperate together to exchange information in accordance
with its laws to be able to know:
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A- If people who cross international borders have the travel documents of their
own or others' documents or if they are victims of trafficking;
B- To see what types of travel documents of individuals that used to cross
international borders for the purpose of trafficking in persons; and
C – Countries will exchange the information about the means used by the human
traffickers.
- Countries participating in this Protocol will provide training in areas of
immigration law to prevent trafficking in persons, and must give an attention to
the education and training of human rights, child rights, gender, and doing this in
collaboration with NGOs and others.
- Every country member of this Protocol will maintain the privacy of information
when it shares with other countries.
Arcle Acons on the Borders between Countries
- Each Country participates in this Protocol will control its borders to prevent
trafficking in persons.
- Each country member of this Protocol will adopt a law to prevent the
commercial means of transport used by human traffickers.
- These laws should allow ensuring that all passengers have their appropriate
travel documents prior to their travel.
- Each country participates in this Protocol will punish those who transport
people for trafficking.
- Each country member of this Protocol will not allow to people who involved in
trafficking in persons to enter its territory.
- All countries participating in this Protocol to must work together to monitor the
borders.
Arcle Protecon of Travel ocuments
Each country member of this Protocol will ensure that the travel documents are
difficult to imitate or falsify, as well as preventing their use incorrectly.
Arcle the Real Travel ocuments
Each country participate in this Protocol will ensure that the documents of the
travelers are correct and they do not use it for trafficking in persons.
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IV Final Actions
Arcle Principle of Protecon
This Protocol to ensure the rights of nations and individuals under the
international law and international humanitarian law and human rights, and does
not distinguish between victims of trafficking.
Arcle Problem-Solving
Countries participating in this Protocol will resolve problems concerning the
interpretation of this agreement through the discussions, and if not resolved
within () months any country of that member in this Protocol may refer the
problem to the International Court of Justice.
Arcle Signature, Acceptance and Accession to this Protocol
- The signing of this Protocol was opened to our countries from to
ecember in 'Palermo', Italy, and then at the headquarters of the United
Naons 'New York' unl ecember .
- This signature is available to regional organizations for economic cooperation,
that at least one country of this organization has signed the Protocol.
- This Protocol is open for acceptance and approval, and these approvals leaves
with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
- Starng from to ecember all countries of the United Naons or the
regional organizations will be able to agree with the Protocol principals by signing
it.
Arcle , the Convenon in Acon
- This Protocol will be in action on the ninetieth day after the date of submission
of the approval number ().
Arcle Amendment
- Aer () years from the beginning of the Protocol our countries may propose an
amendment and submit it to the Secretary General of the United Nations, who will
inform the other countries participating in this Protocol, as well as the Conference
of the embers of this Convention, in order to discussing it and taking an action.
Any amendment is subject to the approval of the countries participating in this
Protocol.
Arcle enunciaon from the Protocol
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- Every country that is a member of this Protocol may denounce this agreement
by writing note to the Secretary-General of the United Nations; the denunciation
will become effective after one year from the date of receipt that note.
Arcle Protocol eeper and anguages
- The Secretary-General of the United Nations will keep in a safe place the
promises submitted by our countries when they sign the Protocol.
- The text of this Protocol will be available in many languages like Arabic, Chinese,
English, French, Russian and Spanish.
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