FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM 65 Convention. All the above reasons seem to have crystallized the world’s efforts in formulating the U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (Trafficking Protocol). The Trafficking Protocol looks into the entire dimension of the problem of trafficking in persons and provides an interdisciplinary, multi-sector approach. In order to gauge how the new Protocol on trafficking is an improvement on the 1949 Convention, the next chapter would analyze in detail the Trafficking Protocol along with the Convention on Transnational Organized Crime, 2000 and Protocol on Migrant Smuggling. These three instruments together represent the modern legal regime on trafficking in persons.