The hidden-camera film is instructive, as it reveals just how blasé the players are about slave trafficking.

The popular perception of the time, repeated in numerous news articles, was that the office would direct and coordinate disjointed federal efforts to combat modern-day slave trafficking.

Another important source of influence is a report the office issues each year rating other nations' efforts to stop slave trafficking.

STRICTLY speaking, of course, violence against women and slave trafficking are different issues.

Another possible formula would be to limit the court's jurisdiction to crimes, like slave trafficking and hijacking, already covered by international conventions.

One major institutional development in the struggle against slave trafficking was the establishment within the Foreign Office of a Slave Trade Department.

His actions in the region included signing treaties with Spain and Portugal involving the prevention of illegal slave trafficking.

The last nation to formally enact the abolition of slavery practice and slave trafficking was the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in 1981.

Later, slave trafficking was expressly forbidden by utilizing clever technical loopholes in the application of sharia, or Islamic law.

They prohibited slave trafficking and freed slaves' children at 14 years of age.