Bringing Human Rights into the Debate on the Global Trafficking of Women

Assessing the Feminist Rights-Based Approach

Abstract

Often perceived as a major turning point in history, the fall of the Berlin Wall significantly altered the socio-political, economic, and security dimensions of the global ‘landscape’. In eliminating the ‘bipolar’ world order that had persisted in the aftermath of WWII, the demise of the Soviet Union and subsequent removal of the associated geopolitical barriers set the stage for the geographical expansion of globalisation within a new world order.