Further information on how different treaties are used in this Commentary can be found in section 2.7 of this chapter. Box 1: T  reaties most often cited in this Commentary 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Trafficking Protocol) 2005 Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (European Trafficking Convention) 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child 2000 United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Organized Crime Convention) 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 2.2.1. SPECIALIST TRAFFICKING TREATIES: INTERNATIONAL A series of treaties dealing specifically with the issue of trafficking (then understood as the sexual exploitation of women and girls in foreign countries) was concluded during the first half of the twentieth century: • 1904 International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic; • 1910 International Convention for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic; • 1949 Protocol Amending the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, and Amending the International Convention for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic; • 1921 International Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children; • 1933 International Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Women of Full Age; • 1947 Protocol Amending the International Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children and the International Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Women of Full Age. In 1949, most of these agreements were consolidated into the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. This treaty remained the major international agreement on the subject of trafficking for the next five decades. In December 2000, representatives from more than 80 countries met at Palermo, Italy, to sign a new international legal framework to fight transnational organized crime that had been adopted by the General Assembly the previous month. One of the key platforms of that regime was a detailed agreement on combating trafficking in persons. The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Trafficking Protocol), is currently the single most important and influential international legal agreement on trafficking. It entered into force in 2003 and by 10 October 2009 had 133 States parties. 2.2.2. SPECIALIST TRAFFICKING TREATIES: REGIONAL The international legal framework around trafficking includes specialist treaties that have COMMENTARY 19