ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal

Human trafficking by organized criminals is a long-standing crime. Apart from conventional land routes, the use of maritime routes for people trafficking is a relatively new issue. Several international and regional instruments exist to fight human trafficking throughout the globe, notwithstanding the use of maritime instruments to reduce human trafficking via water routes. In Bangladesh, there are many regulations for combating human trafficking that are ordinarily successful, but they are insufficient to prevent people trafficking by sea. Bangladesh is susceptible to women's and children's trafficking, which must be properly avoided. Bangladesh's maritime laws include a number of measures that seem to be effective in combating human trafficking by water. As a result, the goal of this essay is to determine how maritime laws may be used to combat people trafficking at sea. The study's goal is to examine human trafficking from a global, regional, and Bangladeshi viewpoint. It ends by determining the extent of maritime law implementation in combating human trafficking by sea, as well as specific recommendations in the area.