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The Australian Government widened the scope of
trafficking and slavery offences in the Criminal Code with the introduction
of the 1999 Criminal
Code Amendment (Slavery and Sexual Servitude) Offences Act.
However, no cases of slavery or trafficking were
successfully prosecuted during this period. Between 2003 and
2005, Australia’s response to trafficking improved, culminating
in ratification of the United
Nations Trafficking Protocol on the 15 September 2005. An additional
Criminal
Code Amendment (Trafficking in Persons Offences) Act was
introduced in 2005 that creates trafficking crimes in criminal law.
Since then, one trafficker has pleaded guilty to trafficking crimes.
In October 2003 the Australian Government revealed
a four year $20 million package, followed by the launch in June
2004 of the Australian Government’s Action
Plan to Eradicate Trafficking in Persons.
Capture all formats (HTML, RTF) of the above Criminal
Code Amendment (Slavery and Sexual Servitude) Act 1999
for download.
Capture all formats (Word, HTML, PDF, RTF) of the above Criminal
Code Amendment (Trafficking in Persons Offences) Act 2005
for download.
2004 Parliamentary
Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission Inquiry into
the Trafficking of Women for Sexual Servitude.
Passage
History of Sexual Servitude Criminal Code Amendment introduced
in 1999.
Model Criminal
Code Chapter 9 Offences Against Humanity Report on Slavery by the
Model Criminal Code Officers Committee and the Standing Committee
of Attorneys-General for download. November 1998.
Slavery
Convention, 1926
Forced
Labor Convention, 1930
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
Convention
for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation
of the Prostitution of Others, 1949
Supplementary
Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions
and Practices Similar to Slavery, 1956
Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
1979
Protocol
to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, 2000
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