A/HRC/41/46
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 April 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-first session
24 June–12 July 2019
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Trafficking in persons, especially women and children
Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially
women and children
Summary
The present report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially
women and children, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, was prepared pursuant to Human
Rights Council resolution 35/5.
Throughout her mandate, the Special Rapporteur has noticed that protection and
assistance for victims of trafficking has been almost exclusively focused on short-term
interventions, with little consideration being given to the rights and needs of victims and
survivors in the long term. Mindful of this shortcoming, the Special Rapporteur argues in
the present report that social inclusion of victims and survivors of trafficking in persons
is a State obligation that stems from the due diligence standard and the right to effective
remedy.
The Special Rapporteur also identifies key challenges related to long-term social
inclusion, and highlights some promising practices that are innovative and
transformative, which should be replicated, funded and implemented on a larger scale,
by States, civil society organizations and the international community.
GE.19-06537(E)