The ATO recognizes and supports the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Child Protection Declaration in Accra in April 2000, and the Global Codes of Ethics for Tourism for the Protection of Children in Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism, A/RES/56/212, adopted by the United Nation?s General Assembly on the 21st of December 2001. ATO also recognizes the Organization of African Unity (AU) Child Protection Act, supported by the United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/53/200, the Economic and Social Council resolution 1998/40, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) and the Public Law.106-386, The Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which provides tools to combat trafficking in persons, both worldwide and domestically; as well as the TIPS program and other international instruments addressing trafficking and illegal migration, such as the Rabat /EU Africa, Ministerial Action Plan in Morocco on July 10 - 11, 2006.

ATO is a Sub-Sahara action-oriented organization, based on earlier experiences to address this matter with the same force used to end the child-soldier dilemma in West Africa after the Dakar consultative meeting in 2004 in Sexual Exploitation in travel and tourism.

The United Nations Millennium Development Goal and Poverty Reduction Programs for 2015 are an integral concern of ATO issues involving Trafficking in Human Beings and Illegal Migration, especially women and children, serving as a wake up call for Development and Basic Human Rights in Sub -Sahara Africa. The ATO/Nordic Baltic Task Force Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sweden presented the Joint Terms of Reference to the ECOWAS fifteen member states which were adopted by the ECOWAS Secretariat on the 7th of March 2007 in Abuja, Nigeria as part of the ECOWAS long term Development goals.