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Whilst the previous chapter examined the non-liability principle as found in the 2005 Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (Article 26), this chapter considers the non-liability principle as contained in the legislation of the European Union .
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Muraszkiewicz, J.M. (2019). Dissecting Article 8 of the 2011 EU Human Trafficking Directive. In: Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking From Liability. Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02659-2_6
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