Confronting human trafficking: State\'s domestic characteristics and the Brazilian agenda-setting

Author(s)

Mônica Sodré Pires

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI)
• Defense date: 2017-03-17

Examining board members

Janina Onuki; Ana Cláudia Niedhardt Capella; Cristiane de Andrade Lucena Carneiro; Simone Diniz; Pedro Feliú Ribeiro

• Advisor: Janina Onuki

Abstract

Human Trafficking is now the third most profitable activity in the world, and estimates of its volume and earnings are gaining new numbers each year. In 2000, the United Nations formally recognized the need to address the problem and established the main legal instrument on the subject, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (known as the Palermo Convention), complemented by three Additional Protocols, one of which specifically concerns trafficking in women and children. This paper has two objectives: (1) to understand the role of domestic characteristics in States ratification to international commitments, more specifically to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and (2) to understand the Brazilian agenda-setting on the subject and the influence of the international scenario for this. For the first objective, we make use of the theoretical-methodological framework provided by studies that explain the adhesion of countries to international regimes, especially those of human rights, we use quantitative methodology, we use as time series the period between 2000 and 2011, we take as sample the 193 countries part of the United Nations and we selected as independent variables: regime of government, time of democracy, new democracies, geographical location of the country, indicator of human trafficking, types of human trafficking and GDP per capita. For the second dimension, the qualitative one, we make use of the public policy framework, especially the studies related to the process of agenda setting, and we map the initiatives related to the subject produced between 2000 and the present day in Brazil. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/00601-4 - Agenda-setting and decision-making process: international regime and human trafficking in Brazil
• Grantee: Mônica Sodré Pires
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate