State Responsibility for Trafficking in Persons and Human Rights Violation

The general concept and rules governing State responsibility have been avid topics of academic discourse and research within the international law arena. Furthermore, the Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts issued by the International Law Commission have been considered as authoritative texts in this ever developing field. The concept of State responsibility for human rights abuses is also highly interlinked with the concept of State responsibility for violations carried out by non-State actors and the nature of the State’s questionable duty to protect individuals against harm carried out by private entities. This article delves into the notion of the legal responsibility of States for curtailing the crime of trafficking in persons and other forms of human rights violations while drawing upon the theories of the invocation of state responsibility for violations of international law.