During 1998 and 1999, I participated in a series of meetings inViennaconvened under the auspices of the United Nations. Their purpose was to hammer out, as quickly as possible, an international agreement on transnational organized crime, as well as a set of supplementary protocols on the specifi c issues of traffi cking, migrant smuggling, and the trade in small arms. My job, as the representative of Mary Robinson, the then High Commissioner for Human Rights, was to use her voice in persuading States not to dilute or let go of the basic international human rights principles to which they were already committed. We had good reason to be worried. Migrant smuggling had recently been identifi ed as a security threat by the preferred destination countries in Europe, North America, and Australia, and had moved from the margins to the mainstream of international political concern.Human trafficking. [download]
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