WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN
RIGHTS AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING?
The links between human rights and the fight against trafficking are well established.
From its earliest days to the present, human rights law has unequivocally
proclaimed the fundamental immorality and unlawfulness of one person appropriating
the legal personality, labour or humanity of another. Human rights law
has prohibited discrimination on the basis of race and sex; it has demanded
equal or at least certain key rights for non-citizens; it has decried and outlawed
arbitrary detention, forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, and the
sexual exploitation of children and women; and it has championed freedom of
movement and the right to leave and return to one’s own country.