International regulation of the ban on trading in women

9.Resumé Trafficking in people, specifically with women, is a complex, multidimensional and structured problem. It is particularly caused by poverty, a lack of working opportunities, migration, civil war, discrimination, inequality and political upheaval. These are situations that are used by organised crime groups and individuals engaged in trafficking with women, which (along with children) represent the most endangered and defenceless victims of this activity. People are not only trafficked across international borders, but within countries as well. Trafficking in people, especially women and children, always goes hand in hand with a severe breach of the victim's human rights. Universal human rights are thus breached; particularly the principle of the protection of life, human integrity and dignity and personal freedom, standardised by common international law. These obligations standardised by common law are therefore considered to be erga omnes obligations and states cannot exempt themselves from them. Even though in principle states do not bear direct responsibility for the behaviour of offenders, natural persons or legal entities, they are, however, responsible for their insufficient effort in the area of the prevention of, and the fight against, trafficking with people. Thus states are responsible..