{"id":2242,"date":"2014-02-18T12:52:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/?page_id=2242"},"modified":"2020-12-07T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T14:42:05","slug":"against-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/treaties_and_monitoring\/against-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention against Trafficking – and GRETA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Modern Slavery and Trafficking in Human Beings<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Most Europeans are convinced, that slavery belongs to an inglorious past.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, that is not the case: Trafficking in human beings is not only a contemporary reality, but a global multi-million business at that. In Europe alone, thousands of men, women and children are being traded like any given commodity every year.<\/p>\n

Lured by false promises about professional education or a job elsewhere, they leave their families and homes – only to find themselves sexually exploited, or forced to toil under sometimes inhuman conditions in industrial plants, on farms or in private households.<\/p>\n

 
\nConvention for Action against Trafficking in Human Beings – and GRETA<\/b><\/p>\n

With its Convention for Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (CETS No. 197)<\/em>, the Council of Europe<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has created the first legally binding instrument in Europe to fight the problem of human trafficking comprehensively. The Convention entered into force in 2008 and is open for signature to non-member states of the Council of Europe as well as to member states. It covers every form of trafficking, every type of victim and every sort of exploitation, and focuses on “three P’s”:<\/p>\n