Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
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In 2000 the United Nations adopted the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, also called the Palermo Convention, and the two Palermo Protocols thereto:
- 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.
All three of these instruments contain elements of the current international law on trafficking in human beings.
The convention and the protocols fall under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
