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33 Hamline J. Pub. L. & Pol'y 201 (2011-2012)
The Age of Consent: How Minnesota's Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Youth Act of 2011 Falls Short of Fully Addressing Domestic Child Sex Trafficking

handle is hein.journals/hplp33 and id is 205 raw text is: The Age of Consent: How Minnesota's Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Youth Act of 2011 Falls Short of Fully Addressing Domestic Child Sex Trafficking Melissa Golkel I. Introduction It is internationally accepted that the only way to effectively combat human sex trafficking is through policies that protect the human rights of victims.2 According to the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, . . . a human rights approach ensures trafficked persons have an effective legal remedy, legal protection, are met with non-discriminatory treatment by law enforcement, can seek restitution and compensation against their traffickers and may 1 The author is a student at Hamline University School of Law. She would like to thank her parents, Jeff Golke and Kathleen Rolfs, as well as her grandmother Charity Gray, for their love and support. She would also like to thank Linda Miller, Executive Director of Civil Society, for her mentorship and guidance, Lindsay Moore for her unwavering dedication to front-line work with sex- trafficking victims abroad and Whitney Lawrence and Sunny Beddow for their invaluable friendship and encouragement. 2 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, G.A. Res. 55/25, Annex II, U.N. Doc. A/RES/55/25, at 31 (Jan. 8, 2001) (asserting that respect for the victims' human rights must be at the forefront of the fight to end trafficking in persons) available at http://www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/ares_55/res5525e.pdf; The United States became one of currently 117 signatories to this protocol on Nov. 3, 2005. UNDOC listed Signatories of G.A. Res. 55/25 available at http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CTOC/countrylist- traffickingprotocol.html; See also, E.g., Ann D. Jordan, Human Rights or Wrongs? The Struggle for a Rights-Based Response to Trafficking in Human Beings, 10 GENDER AND DEV. 28, 28-37 (Mar. 2002) (discussing the importance that governments approach the issue of human trafficking from a rights-based perspective).

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