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The result of this research and the subsequent expert
group meetings convened in Vienna, resulted in three UNODC issue papers : Abuse
of a position of vulnerability and others “means”within the trafficking in persons definition ; the Role of
“consent” in the trafficking in persons protocol ; the international legal
definition of trafficking in persons. The goal of this essay is three-fold:
first, to outline key current conceptual problems with the understanding of
human trafficking, particularly definitional uncertainty and a lack of accurate
data on the phenomenon; second, to link these issues with a careful review of
the legal evolution of trafficking as bound to mechanisms that address slavery,
prostitution, labor violations, and organized crime; and third, to use this
analysis as the foundation for a series of recommendations for global research
and policy development to assist the international community in preventing and
punishing trafficking, a crime that reveals troubling elements of our rapidly
changing world.
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