ABSTRACT
The definition reflects an important development and shift towards newer, relatively more widely acceptable and inclusive definitions of trafficking. As of March 2004, 117 countries had signed the Protocol. Since the definition is very recent, its impact will only be realised once it begins to be applied and tested. A striking feature of the definition is that the international community has only recently recognised the need to expand the definition of trafficking to include purposes other than prostitution, such as forced labour, forced marriage and slavery-like practices. There is also some acknowledgment that trafficking is a problem of human rights and not a law and order or public morality issue related to prostitution. But the problems of lack of coherency and the conflation of trafficking with migration, and trafficking with sex-work, have not been eradicated. Women move and are moved with or without their consent for a variety of reasons (Indra, 1999; Sassen, 1996). They frequently find their way into the job market as domestic helpers, or into the sex industry, partly because these are the largest enclaves in the job market of the receiving country (Wijers, 2000; Wijers and Lap-Chew, 1997; Zlotnik, 2003).
