Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children

A/HRC/RES/17/1View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2011.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2011–2017

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/35/5

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2017	A/HRC/RES/35/5	Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children	596	20%Compare
2014	A/HRC/RES/26/8	Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children	1,581	53%Compare
2011	A/HRC/RES/17/1	Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children	1,097	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Children Special Rapporteurs Trafficking in Persons Women

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children;

Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for a period of three years in order to, inter alia:

Promote the prevention of trafficking in persons in all its forms and the adoption of measures to uphold and protect the human rights of victims of trafficking in persons;

Promote the effective application of relevant international norms and standards and to contribute to their further improvement;

Integrate a gender and age perspective throughout the work of his or her mandate through, inter alia, the identification of gender- and age-specific vulnerabilities in relation to the issue of trafficking in persons;

Identify and share best practices as well as challenges and obstacles in order to uphold and protect the human rights of victims of trafficking in persons, and to identify protection gaps in this regard;

Examine the impact of anti-trafficking measures on the human rights of victims of trafficking in persons with a view to proposing adequate responses to challenges arising in this regard and to avoid re-victimization of victims of trafficking;

Give particular emphasis to recommendations on practical solutions with regard to the implementation of the rights relevant to the mandate, including by the identification of concrete areas and means for international and regional cooperation and capacity-building to tackle the issue of trafficking in persons;

Request, receive and exchange information on trafficking in persons from Governments, treaty bodies, special procedures, specialized agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and other relevant sources, as appropriate, and, in accordance with current practice, respond effectively to reliable information on alleged human rights violations with a view to protecting the human rights of actual or potential victims of trafficking;

Work in close cooperation, while avoiding unnecessary duplication, with other special procedures and subsidiary organs of the Human Rights Council, relevant United Nations bodies, agencies and mechanisms, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, including its Working Group on Trafficking in Persons and the Working Group on the Review of the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto, treaty bodies and regional human rights mechanisms, as well as national human rights institutions, civil society and the private sector;

Report annually on the implementation of the present resolution to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, according to their respective programmes of work;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to ensure that the Special Rapporteur receives the resources necessary to enable him or her to discharge the mandate fully;

Calls upon all Governments to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur and to consider responding favourably to his or her requests to visit their countries, and to provide him or her with all necessary information relating to the mandate to enable him or her to fulfil the mandate effectively;

Encourages Governments to refer to the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking developed by the Office of the High Commissioner1 as a useful tool in integrating a human rights-based approach into their responses to combat trafficking in persons;

Decides to continue consideration of the issue of trafficking in persons, especially women and children, in accordance with its annual programme of work.

 The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its seventeenth session (A/HRC/17/2), chap. I.

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