Human Trafficking and Contemporary Slavery

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

After a brief, comparative overview of past slavery and slavery-like practices this course will focus in particular on chattel slavery, servitude/debt bondage, forced prostitution and sexual slavery, early and forced marriages and forced labor, and on the international instruments aimed at fighting against them. The course will subsequently deal with trafficking in human beings, examining international action to fight against it and to protect victims' human rights, comparing the measures contained in the United Nations Protocol with those of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.