FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM 11 A dictionary definition of trafficking describes it as “an illegal trade in a commodity” in the case of trafficking in persons, the commodity is human beings. The Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 1949 defines trafficking within the context of prostitution as: Article 1 The Parties to the present Convention agree to punish any person who, to gratify the passions of another: (1) Procures, entices or leads away, for the purposes of prostitution, another person, even with the consent of that person; (2) Exploits the prostitution of another person, even with the consent of that person. As this definition was limited to exploitation for the purpose of prostitution it was expanded by Article 6 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women 1979, to include other forms of exploitation of women such as deception of migrant women and mail-order brides or false marriages, and the new forms of sexual exploitation such as sex tourism and forced domestic labour recruited from developing countries to developed countries28. This view has been further widened to include forced labour, clandestine employment and false adoption by General Assembly Resolution 48 /16629. The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, 2000, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime defines Trafficking in Article 3 as: Article 3 (a) “Trafficking in persons” shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of 28 See General Recommendation 19 made by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, paras 13-16. 29 General Assembly Resolution 48/166, 94 Plenary Meeting, 23 December 1994.