NCJ Number
188255
Date Published
August 2000
Length
10 pages
Annotation
This paper provides proposals and contributions received from various countries on the international protocol (legal instrument) against trafficking in and transporting of migrants to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Abstract
This paper contains proposals and contributions, under item four of the provisional agenda, from 12 countries and the European community on the finalization and approval of the international protocol against trafficking in and transporting of migrants. Argentina proposed an additional section be inserted, after Article 7. Azerbaijan proposed amendments under Article 1, Relation to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and under Article 15, Return of Smuggled Migrants. Cameroon proposed amendments under Article 8, Compliance Measures and Arrangements, paragraph three, under article 11, Prevention should become a new article, Technical Cooperation, Article 14, Training, and Article 15, Return of Smuggled Migrants. China proposed the addition of a new article, after Article 11, Measures to eliminate the root causes of the smuggling of migrants and amendments to introduction, and Article 11, Prevention. Germany proposed an amendment to Article 10, Information. The Holy See proposed an amendment to Article 11, Prevention. India proposed an amendment to Article 4, Criminalization. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya proposed amendments to Article 8, Article 14, Article 15, and Article 16, implementation of the obligations undertaken in the present protocol. Lithuania proposed an amendment under Article 10. Mexico proposed an amendment under Article 8. The Syrian Arab Republic proposed amendments to the introduction, Article 6, Article 8, Article 11, and additional articles were recommended on the assistance for and protection of victims of trafficking in persons, in line with Article 4, the status of the victim in the receiving State, in line with Article 5, and the seizure and confiscation of gains, in line with Article 5. The European community proposed an amendment to Article 11.