title: COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING: FEATURES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
abstract: In the modern era of globalization, the issue of cross-border migration is becoming increasingly acute, which is caused, first of all, by its influence on the development of one of the types of international crime, in addition to drug and arms trade, which is human trafficking.Thus, the German researcher Leo Keidel considers human trafficking as one of the main activities of criminal groups, which ranks 5th in the hierarchy of criminal activity in Germany [1, p. 48].This is certainly a violation