A/71/303
Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons,
especially women and children
Summary
In her 2015 report to the Human Rights Council ( A/HRC/29/38), the Special
Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on trafficking in persons, especially women
and children, identified the linkage between trafficking in persons and conflict as one
of the areas under her mandate on which she intended to focus and to carry out
further research.
In follow-up to her report presented to the Human Rights Council at its twenty sixth session (A/HRC/32/41), the present report raises international awareness of the
forms and nature of trafficking related to the complex situation of conflict. The first
section provides the contextual background and identifies trafficking in persons as an
increasingly common feature of modern conflict.
The second section focuses on the contextual perspective by considering the
most common forms of trafficking in conflict from three perspectives: (a) trafficking
of persons fleeing conflict, addressing the situation of trafficking of persons
internally displaced by conflict and that of refugees and asylum seekers fleeing
conflict; (b) trafficking during conflict, which investigates trafficking in persons,
including boys, girls and migrants, for military service and for purposes of sexual
and labour exploitation; and (c) trafficking in post-conflict situations, including
trafficking involving peacekeepers.
Lastly, the report offers recommendations to address trafficking in conflict and
post-conflict situations in collaboration with States, the United Nations, civil society
and the international community in relation to: (a) trafficking of persons in conflict
areas or trafficking of persons fleeing conflict; (b) protecting children from
trafficking; (c) strengthening responses to address traffic king of women and girls for
purposes of sexual exploitation in conflict and post-conflict situations; (d) prevention
of trafficking in persons for labour exploitation in conflict and post -conflict areas;
and (e) anti-trafficking activities in peacekeeping operations.
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