The trafficking in persons is a contemporary form of freedom constraint and
intensively affects lives of women, as victims of this crime of human rights violation. To
address this problem the international community adopted the Protocol to Prevent,
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing
the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime. The Master’ degree
thesis works with several trafficking in persons’ concept in international and national
standards, giving evidence to their underlying concerns. It establishes a comparative study to
verify the compliance of the first to the second standard, analyzing the domestic law and the
international protocol. It is presented the relevant links between migration and trafficking in
persons indicating the several form of traffickers´ action in different places of the world and,
particularly in Belém – Pará – Brazil, where as pest the trafficking infests the gardens in
which the path of trafficked women (known as flowers) report their experiences that reveal
violation of human rights to freedom, since they were victims of trafficking for sexual
exploitation. It indicates possible directions to combat the trafficking of women for sexual
exploitation, since its analysis noted that the domestic law is insufficient to punish the
mentioned crime. It testifies that the combating of trafficking in persons in Amazon Region
will be effective if it is established under a domestic law in accordance to international
Protocol and, especially, under public policies that guarantee human rights for women.
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