Due diligence and trafficking in persons 2015, para. 19
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- In practice, due diligence has been applied mainly as a reactive obligation, often leading States to focus on post-hoc anti-trafficking measures, such as investigation and prosecution of trafficking. Instead, properly constituted, the due diligence standard enables States to take a proactive and long-term approach that focuses, for example, more closely on the prevention arm of due diligence. It also requires States to take a holistic approach that evaluates how due diligence in each of the different areas of anti-trafficking - such as prevention, prosecution, and punishment - interact with each other. For example, providing adequate protection and assistance to victims of trafficking in persons after they have been identified is also often necessary to prevent instances of retrafficking. Due diligence should be taken into account before, during and after each anti-trafficking intervention by not only considering each individual measure on its own terms, but also how it intersects with other anti-trafficking efforts.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 19
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