A/HRC/32/41
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 May 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-second session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons,
especially women and children
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the thematic
report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children,
Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, prepared pursuant to Council resolution 26/8. In her report the
Special Rapporteur addresses the linkage between trafficking in persons and conflict, which
she had identified in her previous report to the Council (A/HRC/29/38) as one of the areas
of interest to and further research by her mandate. In the present report the Special
Rapporteur raises international awareness on the forms and nature of trafficking related to
the complex situation of conflict.
GE.16-07200(E)