The Capacity of the International Criminal Court to Fight Human Trafficking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2186499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Filip Vojta (0000-0002-4786-2463, University of Bern, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 391-402 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Trafficking (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2332-2705 • E-ISSN: 2332-2713 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23322705.2024.2303268 |
| OpenAlex | W4391041698 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
The ongoing war in Ukraine has again highlighted the link between conflict and trafficking in persons, especially refugees. Despite the understanding that trafficking in human beings in the context of armed conflict (and sometimes even outside of it) can amount to an international crime, both research and anti-trafficking policies tend to view trafficking as a (trans)national phenomenon. As a result, the potential of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a permanent international criminal tribunal tasked with adjudicating perpetrators of international crimes, to contribute to the fight against human trafficking remains largely neglected in current discourses. To fill this gap and, at the same time, facilitate efforts to build an effective and sustainable capacity to combat human trafficking at the (trans)national and international levels (UN Sustainable Development Goal 16), this article has two objectives. First, it examines the ICC's procedural capacity to combat human trafficking, focusing on its support for domestic investigations and prosecutions and the requirements for effectively transferring prosecutions to the international level. Second, it analyzes the substantive requirements for qualifying human trafficking as an international crime for purposes of effective prosecution at the ICC in light of recent jurisprudence, especially the Ongwen case
Criminology · Geography · Human rights · Human trafficking · International humanitarian law · International law · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Tribunal · War crime · Human Rights and Development · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Sex work and related issues
Trafficking of Women and Children
Combating (Child) Human Trafficking
Trafficking in Human Beings
The International Law of Human Trafficking
A Crime that Offends the Conscience of Humanity
Trafficking in Human Beings, Enslavement, Crimes Against Humanity
Human Trafficking
Shorter Articles, Comments, and Notes
Exploitation Creep and the Unmaking of Human Trafficking Law
Situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Modern Slavery’
War, Displacement, and Human Trafficking and Exploitation
Combatting Human Trafficking since Palermo
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |