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354 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“(iii) The prostitution or other form of sexual exploitation of a woman orchild, even with the consent of that person;“(iv) Any means of production, distribution or importation, in theirpresent or future form, of graphic or audio-visual material focused on thesexual conduct of women or children or on the genitals of such persons;“(v) The organization, promotion or use of tourism-related activities orjourneys involving the sexual exploitation of women;“(vi) Promoting, facilitating or coordinating acts aimed at rendering uncertain,changing or annulling the marital status of a woman, in any manneror by any means, whether for payment or not or for the promise thereof,whether in accordance with a traditional or customary practice or not andwith or without the use of threats or abuse of authority; or“(vii) Extraction of body organs or organic tissue.”Notes by the Secretariat1. At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, the Special Rapporteur on violenceagainst women, its causes and consequences was of the view that the effective implementationof the goals of the protocol required the inclusion of a non-discriminationprovision, in particular in favour of women, trafficked persons who were undocumentedimmigrants in the country of destination and formerly trafficked persons and sex workers.She proposed that “purchase” and “sale” should be included in the “action element” oftrafficking, the term “kidnapping” replaced with the term “abduction”, and the terms “abuseof authority” and “debt bondage” included in the “means element” of trafficking. In addition,it was highlighted that trafficking should be construed as a crime separate from itscomponent parts and that the trafficking definition should require the movement or transportof a person to a community other than the one in which he (she) lived to ensure thatthe movement was sufficiently significant to render the person particularly vulnerable toexploitation (see A/AC.254/CRP.13). The International Labour Organization was in favourof option 2 of article 2, suggesting its expansion to include trafficking for labour exploitation,in particular forced labour and serfdom (see A/AC.254/CRP.14). The SpecialRapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography stated that theproposed definition of “trafficking in persons” should distinguish between domestic andcross-border transportation and that, where children were concerned, trafficking would beinherently condemnable regardless of the purpose for which it was intended and, thus, thephrase “for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labour” should be deleted(A/AC.254/CRP.19). The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was infavour of the definition of trafficking reflected in option 1, highlighting, at the same time,that a preferable and more accurate description of purposes would include reference toforced labour and/or bonded labour and/or servitude. Furthermore, the High Commissionersuggested that a definition of “trafficking in children” should be dealt with in a separatesection, which should also include an acknowledgement that children had special rightsunder international law and that child victims of trafficking had special needs that mustbe recognized and met by States parties (see A/AC.254/16, paras. 12 and 13). (See alsoarticles 2 and 3 of the present protocol.)2. At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, Belgium proposed that thefollowing phrase should be incorporated in paragraph 2 of option 1 after the word“coercion”: “or through abuse of the particular vulnerability of an alien due to thatperson’s illegal or precarious administrative status, or through the exercise of other forms