International Human Trafficking in Brazil and Latin America: A comparative analysis of public policy.

• Grant number: 13/04510-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: June 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Leandro Piquet Carneiro
• Grantee: Gabriel Felipe Dantas Correa Araujo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The International Human Trafficking handles every year, around U.S. $ 32 billion, according to estimates of the United Nations (UN), thus setting the third most profitable criminal activity in the world, only behind drug trafficking and smuggling weapons. Thus, this same international organization adopted, at the beginning of the XXI century, the Palermo Convention with the aim of promoting cooperation among countries around the world to prevent and combat this illegal practice.I propose to conduct a comparative study on the major changes provoked by this Convention, and other international treaties, on national criminal laws in Brazil and selected countries in Latin America, describing the extent to which there was influence of international guidelines on public security policies, in particular in counter trafficking in persons, within each domestic selected nation. The presented hypothesis is that with the international regulatory milestone that was the Palermo Convention, the UN managed to forge changes in domestic legal standards of many nations, among them Brazil and neighboring countries in Latin America.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ARAUJO, Gabriel Felipe Dantas Correa. International human trafficking in Brazil and Latin America: comparative public policy analysis. 2015. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI) São Paulo.