Plan International - Girls' Rights Platform - Girls' rights are human rights: Positioning girls at the heart of the international agenda

A/HRC/35/37 Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Activities of the mandate holder ................................................................................................... 3 A. Participation in conferences and consultations ..................................................................... 3 B. Country visits ........................................................................................................................ 4 Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains ..................................................................... 4 A. International and national normative framework .................................................................. 4 B. Scope of the report ................................................................................................................ 7 C. Voluntary standards and how they address trafficking in supply chains .............................. 8 D. Engaging with multi-stakeholder initiatives and auditing companies .................................. 11 Conclusions and recommendations ............................................................................................... 13 A. Recommendations to multi-stakeholder initiatives ............................................................... 14 B. Recommendations to assurance providers and auditors ........................................................ 17 C. Recommendations to companies........................................................................................... 17 D. Recommendations to States .................................................................................................. 18 E. Recommendation to donors .................................................................................................. 21 III. IV. 2