FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM 72 whether specific offences should be included in the draft Convention, the group concluded that the negotiating process would be simplified if such offences were dealt with separately171. The origins of the Trafficking Protocol can be traced back to Argentina’s interest in the issue of trafficking in minors and its dissatisfaction with the slow progress on negotiating an additional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to address child prostitution and child pornography. Argentina was also concerned that a purely human rights perspective to this issue would be insufficient and accordingly lobbied strongly for trafficking to be dealt with as part of the broader international attack on transnational organized crime172. Argentina’s proposal for a new convention against trafficking in minors was discussed at the 1997 session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice173. Its timing was fortuitous. At that time a general awareness had also developed that there was a need for a holistic approach where the crime control aspects of trafficking were addressed along with traditional human rights concerns. It is in this background that the Trafficking Protocol was discussed. B. Important Provisions of the Protocol The Preamble to the Protocol underlines the importance of a comprehensive international approach in the countries of origin, transit and destinations, to prevent and combat trafficking. Therefore, in order to provide a universal instrument that addresses all aspects of trafficking in persons, a special Protocol dealing with Trafficking supplementing the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime was adopted. Purpose and Scope of Application The stated purposes174 of the Trafficking Protocol are: (a) To prevent and combat trafficking in persons, paying particular attention to women and children; 171 Report of the Meeting of the inter-sessional open-ended Inter-governmental group of experts on the elaboration of a preliminary draft of a possible comprehensive International Convention Against Organized Transnational Crime. (Warsaw, 2-6 Feb. 1998), UN Doc. E/CN.15/1985/5 at 10(b). 172 Supra note 11, p.982. 173 Measures to Prevent Trafficking in Children, Report of the Secretary General, U.N. Doc. E/C N.15/1997/12(1997). 174 Supra note 4, Art. 2.