International and Russian legislation on countering human trafficking

The article is devoted to the analysis of Russian and international legislation on combating human trafficking. This issue is investigated through the prism of signs of corpus delicti, as enshrined in Art. 127 of the Criminal Code. The author gives a description of international legal norms aimed at combating trafficking in human beings and proposes the inclusion in the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation of a system of criminal legal norms designed to comprehensively protect human rights to freedom and to combat human trafficking.