Trafficking in Women and Children: A Socio-Legal Challenge

AbstractThis paper will address an often-neglected agenda of the much-derided League of Nations: its ‘social’ and ‘technical’ works. These targeted human security through regulating different forms of international mobility, including the fight against trafficking in women and children. The League used conventions and conferences to commit nation-states, in a legal model, to standardized anti-trafficking measures. It also, however, worked to educate and inform states, voluntary organizations, and the general public about the nature of trafficking and the ways of combating it. The latter techniques are here interpreted using Foucault's governmentality writings, which encourage us to look beyond the juridical epistemologies of international relations and international law, but not beyond the interlacing of laws and norms, here explored through interwar League governmentalities.

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Trafficking in Women and Children for Purposes of Sexual Exploitation: The Criminological Aspect

The Prediction and Control of Organized Crime ◽

10.4324/9781351303200-3 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 43-51

Author(s):

Tatyana A. Denisova

Keyword(s):

Sexual Exploitation ◽

Trafficking In Women ◽

Women And Children

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The History of the Global Anti-Human Trafficking Agenda, with a Focus on Prostitution and Sexual Exploitation

10.1093/oso/9780192845702.003.0012 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 151-161

Author(s):

Heli Askola

Keyword(s):

Human Trafficking ◽

Sexual Exploitation ◽

Early History ◽

White Slavery ◽

Government Organizations ◽

Trafficking In Women ◽

Recent Developments ◽

History Of ◽

Women And Children ◽

International Instruments

Heli Askola examines the early history of international instruments for the suppression of the trafficking in women and children involved in so called ‘white slavery’ as precursors to the more recent developments relating to human trafficking. She challenges the notion of the linear progression in the development of the law and illustrates that the contests between various NGOs and government organizations meant that this development was neither smooth nor uncontested.

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