Harmonization between International Obligations and Domestic legislation to confront the Crime of Human Trafficking
Doi:https://doi.org/10.37940/JRLS.2022.3.1.2
Abstract
The crime of human trafficking is one of the crimes related to humanity, and it is ancient, and its roots go back to the eras of slavery which made the human being a commodity to be traded and bargaining over its prices in a way that expresses the worst humiliation that a human entity can be subjected to. This crime is classified among organized and cross-border crimes. Likewise, it has also multiple forms, although there are those who believe that the issue of enslavement of people has become history, compared to the slogans that people hear about human rights and claims to ensure their protection. There are many charters that are apparently concerned with human rights and prohibit all forms of abusing, humiliating and trafficking of human beings. However, the undeniable fact is that the behavior of human trafficking with updated images is still visible to constitute a humanitarian pressure towards adopting a legal confrontation against it. What is related to the content of this crime and the danger it entails threatening global societal peace prompted the direction of confronting it internationally through a global effort, which resulted in the adoption of international obligations that obligate states to follow their lead and harmonize their criminal legislation with them in order to reach an effective confrontation of this crime that affects the honorable human being. This study aims, according to an inductive-analytical approach, to review the international efforts that led to legal obligations that necessitate internal harmonization with them, the legal basis for achieving harmonization, and the extent to which countries deal with this obligation, based on the premise that the common international interest in this subject has prompted countries to harmonize, even if a theory between its internal legislation and its international obligations.
