Since the mid-2000s, Senegal has been applying an anti-trafficking law to prosecute emigration attempts and activities that relate to facilitating passage out of the country. Implemented following Senegal’s ratification of the Palermo Convention and its Protocols, this law ushered in a new legal practice of making some forms of movement illegal, or at the very …

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