This resolution states in part that the protocol is the “first international legally binding instrument with agreed upon definition of trafficking in persons, or TIP, facilitating the establishment of a unified domestic and international system to investigate, prosecute and deter TIP incidences.
FSM’s accession to the protocol stands to increase the number of countries that have ratified the TIP Protocol over 147, a tally dating back to Sept.
2010 as reported during the 5th Conference of Parties to the U.N. Convention on Transnational Organized Crime in the same year.
FSM is one of four Pacific nations that are parties to the U.M. Convention on Transnational Organized Crime and only the second Pacific nation behind Nauru to have formally accepted the TIP Protocol according to information from the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime.
Mori informed Congress during its consultancy meeting on Aug. 2 that he had instructed the Department of Justice to craft necessary legislation in line with the protocol to ensure its applicability and broaden human rights protection in the FSM.
