FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL

This article traces the policing of sex work through various periods in South African history, including: occupation by the Dutch East India Company, British colonial rule, the apartheid regime, and the post-1994 dispensation. The policing of sex work is driven by a variety of discourses on sexuality, morality, and public health, as well as formal laws that respond and give meaning to these conflicting discourses. Although present debates are shaped by the human rights agenda, the treatment of sex workers can be viewed as a reflection of the economic

This article provides an overview of the trafficking industry in Middle Eastern countries and examines governmental responses. Legislative responses are assessed according to the minimal standards set out in the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. The article also looks at the UN Trafficking Protocol to evaluate Middle Eastern governments' responses and what more they need to do to meet their international obligations.

This article examines international trafficking of women for the sex trade and how states have responded. It begins with an overview of existing laws in the EU and the US that prohibit trafficking of women for the sex trade. It then analyzes existing laws in international treaties, the EU and the US, and provides experts' opinions on the gaps in existing laws. The author ends by advocating a consistent and multi-facted approach to sex trafficking.