Southern Africa

• Mozambique is the only country in the region with separate anti-trafficking legislation, with their Anti-Human Trafficking Act of 2008.


• Zambian Criminal Code addresses human trafficking, but without providing any defintion.


• South African Children's Bill only criminalizes the sexual exploitation of children.


• Malawi has criminalized the exploitation of children, and is drafting anti-trafficking legislation.


• While the majority of these countries lack anti-trafficking legislation, they all possess laws that can be substituted to prosecute human trafficking offenders.