Legal Framework

Europe

International

Europe

• Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings and its Explanatory Report (PDF, 477 KB, not barrier-free)

• Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council providing for minimum standards on sanctions and measures against employers of illegally staying third-country nationals (PDF, 194 KB, not barrier-free)

International

• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (PDF, 160 KB, not barrier-free)

• Information about the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and its implementation in Germany (in German)

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (PDF, 65 KB, not barrier-free)

• Information about the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its implementation in Germany (in German) 

• Convention on the Rights of the Child (PDF, 112 KB, not barrier-free)

• Information about the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its implementation in Germany (in German)

• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (PDF, 112 KB, not barrier-free)

• United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto (PDF, 398 KB, not barrier-free)

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (so-called "Palermo Protocol")