Contents Chapter 1 Introduction to Trafficking in Persons 1 Chapter 2 Basis for International Legal Regime on Trafficking 30 Chapter 3 Critique of the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 1949 59 Chapter 4 The United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000 - The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, 2000 and the Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, 2000 66 Chapter 5 Trafficking of Women and Children in South Asia and the SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution, 2002 88 Chapter 6 Combating Trafficking 105 VII