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It’s been 15 years since a universal treaty was adopted to fight human trafficking. What’s happened in that time? Here is a timeline…
A lot has transpired from 2000 when the United Nations passed, at the Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons…to this year–2015–when we saw two important initiatives–both Britain’s Modern Slavery Act and the United Nation’s adoption of 17 Sustainable Goals.
As we enter a new year, we do so having recently marked a significant milestone in the global fight against human trafficking: the 25th anniversary of both the UN Palermo Protocol and the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Adopted in 2000, these two frameworks reshaped how governments understand, prevent, and respond to modern slavery. Yet anniversaries are not only moments of celebration—they are moments of reckoning. A quarter-century on,
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