La protección a las víctimas de trata de personas en Brasil

Abstract

Human trafficking is an illegal action observed in the whole world, even in Brazil. The Protocol of the United Nations against human trafficking was ratified by Brazil in 2004. However, the country has not shown a significant regulatory evolution. This article is intended to analyze present and future norms to protect victims (foreign victims, especially) of human trafficking in Brazil. First, the article presents what is understood as human trafficking, based on the protocol of the United Nations to prevent, repress, and penalize human trafficking (women and children, specifically); the article also describes some considerations about the reality of human trafficking in Brazil and worldwide. The sequence shows the measures taken to protect victims, contemplated in the United Nations protocol. Finally, the article provides a list of the existing regulatory actions and the bills than can change this reality. The conclusion of the study indicates that Brazil still offers a weak protection for foreign victims of human trafficking, but an optimistic improvement perspective is shown in relation to the bills currently analyzed by the National Congress.