Expanding International and National Protections Against Trafficking for Forced Labor Using a Human Rights Framework

This article provides an overview of how recent international debates and discussions of redefinition related to trafficking have broadened the scope of traditional perceptions of trafficking to include human rights concerns. The author begins by examining existing international legal approaches related trafficking and forced labour and their limitations. She reviews proposed solutions by government, inter-government and non-government bodies and analyzes their policy implications. Ultimately, she supports the incorporation of a human rights approach to trafficking and ends with a set of recommendations to effectively address trafficking through a human rights framework. [Descriptors: Migration - Trafficking, International]