Cap.9:25 TRAFFICK!NG.fN PERSONS No.4/2014 ZIMBABWE ACT To provide for the prohibition, prevention and prosecution of the crime of trafficking in persons and the protection of victims of trafficking; to establish an Anti-Trafficking Inter-Ministerial Committee and provide for its composition and functions; to establish centres for victims of trafficking in persons; to amend the Criminal Law Code and the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act [Chapter 9:24] (No.4 of 2013); and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing. WHEREAS section 327(2) of the Constitution provides as follows: "An international treaty which has been concluded or executed by the President or under the President's authority~ (a) does not bind Zimbabwe until it has been approved by Parliament; and (b) does notformpartofthe lawoJZimbabwe unless it has been incorporated into the law through an Act of Parliament." AND WHEREAS Zimbabwe signed both the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Snppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children against Transnational Organised Crime, both of which were concluded on 15 November 2000. AND WHEREAS Article 5 of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children further provides as follows: 39 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.