• The United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking has an online resource center where it publishes regional laws and agreements, many of which are mentioned here.

Africa

• 1982 African [Banjul] Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, adopted June 27, 1981, OAU Doc. CAB/LEG/67/3 rev. 5, 21 I.L.M. 58 (1982)

• 1990 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, OAU Doc. CAB/LEG/24.9/49 (1990). Articles 27 and 29 pertain to the use of children in prostitution and the sale of or traffick in children.

• 2003 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, Adopted by the 2nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union, Maputo, CAB/LEG/66.6 (Sept. 13, 2000); reprinted in 1 Afr. Hum. Rts. L.J. 40, entered into force Nov. 25, 2005. Article 4(g) obligates state parties to take appropriate and effective measures to “prevent and condemn trafficking in women, prosecute the perpetrators of such trafficking and protect those women most at risk.”

• 2001 ECOWAS Declaration and Plan of Action Against Trafficking in Persons 

Americas

• 1994 Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará)

• 1994 Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors

Europe

• 1953 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

• 1996 European Convention on the Exercise of Children’s Rights

• 2000 Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

• 2002 Council of the European Union Legal Framework Against Trafficking

• 2005 Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

• 2007 Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse

Asia 

• 1997 Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Declaration on Transnational Crime

• Asian countries have formed the ASEAN National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) Forum and the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions to encourage cooperation, training, capacity building, and the promotion and protection of human rights. The Asian Regional Trafficking in Persons Project (ARTIP), an initiative of the Australian government, began in 2005 and focuses on promoting and protecting trafficking victims’ rights and holding sex traffickers accountable.