Трговина људима у пракси Европског суда за људска права
Human trafficking in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses human trafficking through the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. The judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Rancev v. Cyprus and Russia is currently a mandatory source in the field of established international standards when it comes to combating trafficking in human beings and protecting the victims of these crimes. This verdict unequivocally proves for the first time that human trafficking is a form of modern, non-institutional slavery against which the member states of the Council of Europe, through the implementation of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, must proactively oppose by taking preventive and repressive measures. Since trafficking in human beings violates guaranteed rights and freedoms, the European Court of Human Rights stated in its judgement a number of standards through the imposition of so-called “positive obligations”, which the member states must fulfil in order to stop and sanction all possible cases of this illegal action. In this paper, the author seeks to analyse the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, as well as the obligations of states arising from the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights.

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