International cooperation in the process of investigating human traffiking crimes

Abstract

Human trafficking is a part of organized crime, a contemporary form of slavery, accompanied by the worst violations of human rights. It is obvious that, in order to solve this serious problem, we need the considerable efforts of the entire international community. This is conditioned by the fact that human trafficking does not belong to the borders of a single country, it is carried out by crossing borders, with the attraction of traffickers of different nationalities and a multitude of places where the crime is committed, and it exceeds the range of action of the enforcement bodies of the legal norms of the Republic of Moldova. In this study, we want to draw attention to the fact that when investigating crimes related to transnational trafficking of human beings, from the aspect of procedural interaction, the international collaboration of law enforcement bodies is of particular importance. Provisions, which regulate certain issues in the matter of international collaboration of several states in the field of combating transnational crime, including human trafficking, are contained in the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, signed in Palermo on December 9, 2000, and in the additional protocols of this document: a) Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons especially women and children from November 15, 2000; b) Protocol against the smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air from November 15, 2000.

Keywords

• trafficking of human beings
• organizedcrime
• criminal process
• criminal prosecution
• investigationmethods
• international collaboration