FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM 71 witnesses from potential intimidation or retaliation166. This includes physical protection, relocation, and within legal constraints, concealment of identities. The Convention further calls on States to support the efforts of developing countries to fight transnational organized crime and assist them to implement the Convention through technical cooperation as well as financial and material assistance167. The Convention establishes a Conference of the Parties to promote and review its implementation as well as to more generally improve the capacity of State Parties to combat transnational organized crime168. The Conference of Parties will have a special role in facilitating several of the cooperative measures envisaged under the Convention including: the provision of technical assistance; information exchange; and cooperation with international and non-governmental organizations169. It is also responsible for periodic examination of the implementation of the Convention as well as making recommendations to improve the Convention and its implementation170. The State Parties are required to provide regular reports on progress made in implementation. In addition, the Conference of Parties may itself establish additional review mechanism including “peer review”. It is relevant to note that the Conference of Parties will be solely concerned with the Convention and will not have any authority in respect to the protocols, except in so far as their respective subject matters can be brought within the provisions of the Convention itself. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime A. Origin / Background The idea of a separate Protocol on Trafficking was first mooted at a meeting of an inter-governmental group of experts established by the General Assembly to develop a preliminary draft of the proposed Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime. On the question 166 Ibid., Art. 25(1). 167 Ibid., Art. 30. 168 Ibid., Art. 32(1). 169 Ibid., Art. 32(3a and 3c). 170 Ibid., Art 32 (3a and 3e)