The earliest drafts of the Trafficking Protocol limited its application to
trafficking in women and children. At the very first negotiating session,
states, intergovernmental organizations, and NGOs argued that this approach
was unnecessarily restrictive and failed to take into account the fact
that men were also trafficked. Following a recommendation of the Ad-Hoc
Committee, the General Assembly subsequently agreed to modify the
mandate of the Committee's mandate so as to enable that the scope of the
proposed protocol be expanded to cover trafficking in persons-especially
women and children.5 6
The stated purpose of the Trafficking Protocol is two-fold: first, to
prevent and combat trafficking in persons, paying particular attention to the
protection of women and children; and second, to promote and facilitate
cooperation among states parties to this end.5 7 Application of the protocol is
limited to situations of international trafficking involving an organized