Cap.9:25 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS No.A/2014 2. The provisions of the Convention shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to this Protocol unless otherwise provided herein. 3. The offences established in accordance with article 5 of this Protocol shall be regarded as offences established in accordance with the Convention. Article 2 Statement of purpose The purposes of this Protocol are: (a) to prevent and combat trafficking in persons, paying pa1ticular atteution to women and children; and (b) (c) to protect and assist the victims of such trafficking, with full respect for their human rights; and to promote cooperation among States Parties in order to meet those objectives. Article 3 Use of terms For the purposes of this Protocol: (a) "trafficking in persons" shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiviug of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person. for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or ather forms of sexual exploitation, farced labonr or services, slavery or practices sintilar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs; (b) the consent of a victim aftrafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set fmth in subparagraph (a) of this atiicle shall be irrelevant where any of the means set fm1h in subparagraph (a) have been used; (c) the recmitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall be considered "trafficking in persons" even if this does not involve any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) of this atticle; "child" shall mean any person under eighteen years of age. (d) Article 4 Scope of application This Protocol shall apply, except as otherwise stated herein, to the prevention, investigation and prosecution of the offences established in accordance with article 5 of this Protocol, whete those offences are transnational in nature and involve an organized crintinal group, as well as to the protection of victims of snch offences. Ariicle 5 Criminalization 1. Each State Pa1ty shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as crintinal offences the conduct set forth in article 3 of this Protocol, when corrnnitted intentionally. 2. Each State Party shall also adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as crintinal offences: 53 DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS e-mail: veritas@mango.zw website: www.veritaszim.net Veritas makes every effort to ensure the provision of reliable information, but cannot take legal responsibility for information supplied.