The Palermo Protocol is the Additional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime of 2000 on preventing, combating and punishing trafficking in human beings, especially women and children. The Palermo Protocol regulates measures to combat... Trafficking in Human Beings and for cross-border cooperation to this end. The protocol was the first international legal document to contain a comprehensive and harmonized definition of Trafficking in Human Beings and included all groups of people and forms of exploitation. It stipulates that no coercion needs to be used to prove the offense against minors. Trafficking in Human Beings to meet.

The main focus of the Convention is the prosecution and combating of organized crime. Compliance with the Convention is monitored by the Conference of States Parties, which meets every two years.