Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including Its Causes and Consequences

A/HRC/RES/51/15View 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 2022.

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4 versions · 2013–2022

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2022	A/HRC/RES/51/15	Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, including its Causes and Consequences	1,282	97%Compare
2019	A/HRC/RES/42/10	Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, including its Causes and Consequences	1,272	92%Compare
2016	A/HRC/RES/33/1	Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, including its Causes and Consequences	1,213	76%Compare
2013	A/HRC/RES/24/3	Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, including its Causes and Consequences	1,077	–

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5 subjects

Coordination Within UN System Crime Prevention Financing Slavery Special Rapporteurs

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19 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the work and the thematic reports of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, including those on contemporary forms of slavery affecting persons belonging to ethnic, religious and linguistic minority communities³ and on the nexus between displacement and contemporary forms of slavery;⁴

³A/HRC/51/26.

⁴A/HRC/48/52.

Also welcomes the cooperation of those States that have accepted requests for visits by the Special Rapporteur and have responded to his requests for information;

Further welcomes the steps taken by States to address contemporary forms of slavery through, inter alia, the adoption of new legislation, the revision of relevant policies and the establishment of independent domestic mechanisms, and urges States to increase their efforts further to combat contemporary forms of slavery;

Renews the mandate of Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, for a period of three years;

Decides that the Special Rapporteur shall continue to examine and report on all contemporary forms of slavery and slavery-like practices, but in particular those defined in the Slavery Convention of 1926 and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery of 1956, and all other issues covered previously by the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery; in the discharge of the mandate, the Special Rapporteur shall:

Promote the effective application of relevant international norms and standards on slavery;

Request, receive and exchange information on contemporary forms of slavery from Governments, treaty bodies, special procedures, specialized agencies, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and other relevant sources, including on slavery practices and, as appropriate and in line with the current practice, respond effectively to reliable information on alleged human rights violations with a view to protecting the human rights of victims of slavery and preventing violations;

Recommend action and measures applicable at the national, regional and international levels to eliminate slavery practices wherever they occur, including remedies that address the causes and consequences of contemporary forms of slavery, such as poverty, discrimination and conflict, and the existence of demand factors and relevant measures to strengthen international cooperation;

Focus principally on aspects of contemporary forms of slavery that are not covered by existing mandates of the Human Rights Council;

Requests the Special Rapporteur, in carrying out the mandate, to continue:

To give careful consideration to specific issues within the scope of the mandate and to include examples of effective practices and relevant recommendations;

To take account of the gender and age dimensions of contemporary forms of slavery;

To participate in relevant international dialogues and policy forums related to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 8, and to advise States, intergovernmental organizations, civil society and other stakeholders on the effective respect, protection and fulfilment of human rights of those affected by contemporary forms of slavery in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and to undertake thematic research on the effective implementation of Goal 8, with a particular focus on target 8.7;⁵

⁵Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms.

Encourages the Special Rapporteur to compile and analyse examples of national legislation relating to the prohibition of slavery and slavery-like practices in order to assist States in their national efforts to combat contemporary forms of slavery;

Calls upon all Governments to cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur in the performance of the tasks and duties mandated, to supply all necessary information requested by the mandate holder, and to give serious consideration to responding favourably to the Special Rapporteur’s requests to visit their countries so as to enable the mandate holder to fulfil the mandate effectively;

Encourages the United Nations, including its specialized agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations, Governments, independent experts, interested institutions and non-governmental organizations to cooperate to the fullest extent possible with the Special Rapporteur in the fulfilment of the mandate;

Encourages States to consider contributing to the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery;

Encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue to cooperate fully and effectively with the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and all other relevant existing human rights mechanisms, the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons and Alliance 8.7, taking full account of their contribution while avoiding duplication of their work;

Requests the Special Rapporteur to submit reports on the implementation of the mandate to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly in accordance with their annual programmes of work.

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