According to Legislationline, the new Criminal Code (No. 985-XV) entered into force on 1 January 2003. Articles 165 and 206 explicitly criminalize trafficking in persons and trafficking in children.

Article 165 (1) defines trafficking as the "[r]ecruitment, transportation, transfer, sheltering or reception of a person for the purpose of commercial or non-commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or forms similar to slavery, of using a person in armed conflicts and criminal activities, drawing of human organs or tissues for transplant" when committed using: threats of or actual physical violence or psychological violence (such as abduction, confiscation of documents and debt bondage), deception, or abuse of vulnerability or power. Sentences range from seven years to life imprisonment, depending on the circumstances.

Article 206 punishes trafficking in children for purposes of sexual exploitation, pornography, forced labor, slavery, armed conflict, criminal acts, organ transplantation or abandonment outside of the country. Sentences range from ten to fifteen years. When certain aggravating factors are present, the prison sentence increases incrementally to a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

The Law on Preventing and Combating Violence in the Family was passed on March 1, 2007. 

Several groups, including The Advocates for Human Rights, provided comments and suggestions on the draft law. The Advocates worked closely with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to transmit these comments to the Parliament and conduct advocacy on the law's passage.