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This Resource Guide presents a comprehensive breakdown of international and legal instruments that address trafficking in human beings. It groups and discusses law, instruments, policies, procedures and practices by various topics: legality, law enforcement, human rights, slavery and slavery-like practices, trafficking, migration, labour, gender and children's rights. The Guide provides details of the history, background, purpose and party obligations of these instruments. It also highlights key provisions and discusses how the law or policy can be utilized to protect the rights of trafficked persons. While the focus is not specifically on women, the instruments discussed by the Guide are nonetheless relevant to women victims of trafficking. [Descriptors: Migration - Trafficking, International]