Stocktaking exercise on the work of the mandate on its tenth Anniversary 2014, para. 31

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In addition, the Special Rapporteur has regularly upheld the importance of the now widely accepted principle that victims of trafficking should not be punished, or indeed prosecuted, "for unlawful acts committed by them as a direct consequence of their situation as trafficked persons or where they were compelled to commit such unlawful acts" (CTOC/COP/WG.4/2009/2, para. 12(b)).
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Violence
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  • N.A.
Year
2014
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Other
Paragraph number
31