A/HRC/35/37
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 March 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fifth session
6-23 June 2017
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. The report is
focused on the efforts of multi-stakeholder initiatives and industry coalitions to address,
through voluntary standards, trafficking in supply chains. The Special Rapporteur identifies
and analyses main challenges in adopting voluntary standards and assurance processes that
effectively facilitate the detection of trafficking in persons. On the basis of the dialogue
launched with stakeholders identified within voluntary standards initiatives, she presents
recommendations to multi-stakeholder initiatives, assurance providers, companies, States
and donors. The recommendations are aimed at strengthening voluntary standards on
trafficking in persons, the assurance processes used by multi-stakeholder initiatives to
improve detection and remediation of cases of trafficking in persons, and domestic
legislation on business transparency regarding efforts to combat trafficking in persons in
their supply chains.
GE.17-04934(E)