Human trafficking has devastating effects which victims may take a lifetime to recover from and children's lives can be easily shattered by a trafficking experience. Despite the many prohibitions against trafficking in the form of international as well as national pieces of legislation, international networks that market women and children or prostitution continue to thrive as trafficking in persons is a multibillion dollar industry.
As previous pieces of legislation have been severely critized for having flaws in that it was alleged that the Children's Act and the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amended Act in particular, did not succeed in bringing South Africa into compliance with its international obligations. 185
Even though the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Bill is not yet enacted as legislation, it is an ideal single comprehensive piece of legislation which will definitely alleviate the scourge of trafficking in person in South Africa as it encapsulates all the provisions relating to trafficking.
This treatise constitutes an attempt at highlighting the effectiveness of the Trafficking and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Bill as a single comprehensive piece of
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legislation, more so that it encompasses a diverse range of stakeholders in combating trafficking in persons, therefore showing its commitment and determination to carry out its main objective which is uprooting and combating trafficking in persons.
INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS
1. Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1983 2. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1989
3. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffick in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others 1949
4. Council of Europe: Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (2005)
5. International Agreement for Suppression of the White Slave Traffic 1904 6. International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and
Children 1921
7. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography 2002
8. Slavery Convention 1927
9. United Nations Transnational Organised Crime Protocol to Prevent and Suppress Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol) 2000
10. United States of America: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) 2000
INTERNET SOURCES
1. http://www./unhchr.ch/htm1/menu3/blf250.htm (last accessed on 30
April 2009)
2. http:www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc-sale.htm (last accessed on 14 May
2009)
3. http://www.1/umn/edu/humanrts/instree/whitetraffic1904/htm (last
accessed on 30 April 2009)
4. http://www/hcch.net/indexen?php?act=conventions.textdcid-24 (last
SOUTH AFRICAN LEGISLATION
1. Criminal Procedure Act 1977 (Act 51 of 1977) 2. Child Care Act 1983 (Act 74 of 1983)
3. Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996 (Act 108 of 1996) 4. Children' s Act 2005 (Act 38 of 2005)
5. Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act 2007 (Act 32 of 2007)
6. Children' s Amendment Act 2007 (Act 41 of 2007)
7. Government Gazette 2009 (No 32222 May 2009) Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Bill
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