The Protocol is critiqued for being too general and vague
in its measures. In doing so, however, critics hold the Protocol
to a purpose it never claimed to promote. The document was not
designed to be a comprehensive international law against human
trafficking anticipating every possible manifestation of trafficking
at every level. Rather, the Protocol was created to be a standard
upon which countries could base their own legislation to properly
deal with regionalized issues. In that light, the Protocol does fulfill
its purpose. Countries have been supplementing the Protocol in
the years since its ratification with more specific and comprehensive
anti-trafficking laws. The Protocol has served as the foundation
upon which the past decade of anti-trafficking legislation has has already been laid.