ABSTRACT
Human trafficking has been known to humanity in many forms; bearing many names through the years it has shown us its complexity. Existing as a process with integral phases, it survives using legality and in such a way enters into society's core.As a crucial point, the Protocol of Palermo was preceded by other international documents that consequently changed their area of explanation from white slave traffic, to trafficking in women and later also children. Each one of them accented a different group of people, defining mostly sexual exploitation, rarely even having an article or two where protection, scrutiny, or prevention was mentioned.Increased interest by the international community today resulted in building strategies for controlling the phenomenon into different areas. The entry examines different areas of scrutiny of the crime, its victims, the public policies, and the new instruments of investigation used by the police forces.
