A/79/161
Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons,
especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally
Trafficking in persons and gender and peace and security
Summary
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur calls for strengthening the focus
on trafficking in persons in the women and peace and security agenda and in action
plans and programmes, recognizing that trafficking in persons for all purposes of
exploitation threatens peace and security and undermines peacebuilding processes
and the realization and enjoyment of equal human rights. She also reflects on how
gender shapes the experience of conflict, insecurity and injustice, for women and
girls, men and boys, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons and
persons of diverse gender identities, often limiting the equal protection of rights . She
calls for a more comprehensive approach to the achievement of gender equality,
recognizing the significance of gender in the realization of justice, peace and security.
She recalls that achievement of gender equality requires a transformation of gendered
relations of power and inequality and recognition of the indivisibility of rights:
economic, social and cultural, and civil and political.
Finally, the Special Rapporteur analyses the limited progress made in integrating
measures to combat trafficking in persons into the women and peace and security
agenda at the United Nations and at the regional and national levels, and presents
targeted recommendations to strengthen action to combat trafficking in persons in
women and peace and security agendas, action plans and programmes, prioritizing
the human rights of trafficked persons and effective prevention and accountability
measures, including reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence. She builds on
earlier analyses of trafficking in situations of conflict, climate change and
displacement, refugee protection and forced displacement, on the intersections with
terrorism and counter-terrorism, on the principle of non-punishment, and specifically
on the women and peace and security agenda.
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