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

A/HRC/RES/26/8View 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 2014.

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?

7 subjects

Crime Prevention Crime Victims Financing Human Rights Principles Special Rapporteurs Trafficking in Persons

What’s in this document?

19 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur on the first decade of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children;⁵

⁵A/HRC/26/37.

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 effective 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, share and promote good practices in order to uphold and protect the human rights of victims of trafficking in persons and to identify protection gaps in this regard, including with regard to the identification of victims of trafficking in persons;

Examine the impact of national, regional and international 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 and with Governments, relevant treaty bodies, special procedures, specialized agencies, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, including non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions and other sources, including victims of trafficking or their representatives, 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 Council, relevant United Nations bodies, agencies and mechanisms, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons, as well as the International Organization for Migration, relevant treaty bodies, regional human rights mechanisms, national human rights institutions, civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and the private sector;

Cooperate closely with 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, and attend and participate in their annual sessions, upon invitation;

Continue consultations with States through its national-level actors to fight trafficking in persons, including national rapporteurs, coordinators and committees, as well as with human rights mechanisms and national human rights institutions, with a view to contributing to strengthening cooperation between those actors;

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;

Urges all Governments to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur and to respond favourably to his or her requests to visit their countries, to provide him or her with all necessary information related to the mandate and to react promptly to his or her urgent appeals in order to enable him or her to fulfil the mandate effectively;

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

Urges States, subregional, regional and multilateral organizations to develop and strengthen strategies and plans of action to combat trafficking in persons in accordance with a victim-centered approach;

Invites States and other interested parties to make further voluntary contributions to the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery and the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children;

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 his or her mandate fully;

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

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