In Tropical Research Digest: Human Right And Human Trafficking, Lindsey King

acknowledged that international Law is key channel for fighting Human

Trafficking adding that the most creditable and current tools of international law
which have provided for how to define, prevent, and prosecute human trafficking
are the United Nation Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its
two related protocols: The United Nation Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Purnish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women And Cildren(2000) popularly known as
the palermo protocol, and the United Nation Protocol Against Smuggling Of
Migrant By Land, Sea And Air(2006). Others include Council of Europe Convention
on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings(2005),International Labour
Organization convention Convention on forced Labour (1930).However other
conventions and treaties at both international and regional levels that seek to
address the urgly menace of human trafficking do exist.

The United Nation Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons
Especially Women and Children has its objective in preventing trafficking; protect
victims of this dehumanizing act, and encouraging cooperation within countries
against trafficking. This protocol informed a more widely accepted definition of
trafficking, ushered in a more aggressive approach, evidence in its well
encompassed definition of trafficking, concerned parties responsibility to enact laws
and establish policies that will bring offender to book, alongside providing
humanitarian aid to victims. The United Nation Protocol against Smuggling of
Migrant seeks to address the increasing number of organized crime groups that
illegally convey migrants from a source to a particular destination for purpose of
financial benefits to the offender and at detriment to the migrants. Through
establishing instruments that presents the act as a crime, and encourage nation
states to coperate in the sruggle by incoperatng laws that will discourage the act.

The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
as the name implies is a regional. As partly contained in its report (p7) states: "its
aim is to achieve a greater unity among its member. Taking due account of the
other international legal instruments relevant in the field of action against trafficking
in human being". futhermore the purpose of the convention are fight trafficking in
human beings, while ensuring gender equity, protection of human rights of victims,
model a detailed structure for safeguarding and comming to aid of victims and
witnesses while ensuring adequate prosecution of offenders.finally to encourage
international cooperation on action against the act, (article 1 of coe convention
report). This article is an indicator that the convention is geared towards ensuring
that the region consolidates to impliment the provisions of the international law
developement and establishments of laws that can give way to compliance among its
member states .

This treaty, rather than make it concern on trafficking affect all, was only interested
in favouring the white race. Also, the conventions on slave trade abolition are one
that has continued to produce a ripple effect. Among them is the slavery convention
(1926) and its supplementary convention. other contributing conventions are the
international convention for suppress of trafficking Women and Children, the
suppression of traffic in women of full age among other. This conventions were
instrumental in laying foundation for the present day conventions along the
commitment in curbing human trafficking