US
Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) 2000
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) 2003
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) 200
William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008
Child Soldiers Accountability Act
International
UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children
In 2000 the United Nations adopted the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, also called the Palermo Convention and two Palermo protocols there to:
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children; and
- Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air
United Nations Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking of May 2002
European Union (EU)
The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings was adopted by the Council of Europe on 16 May 2005. The aim of the convention is to prevent and combat the trafficking in human beings. Of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, so far 36 have signed the convention and 7 have ratified it.