A/HRC/17/35
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 April 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Seventeenth session
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, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo* **
Summary
The present report is submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council decision
8/12. It covers the period from 1 March 2010 to 1 March 2011.
Chapter II of the report provides an overview of the activities undertaken by the
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, during the
period under review.
Chapter III of the report contains a thematic analysis of the right to an effective
remedy for trafficked persons. In it, the Special Rapporteur outlines the international legal
framework of this right and what it entails in the specific context of trafficked persons. She
analyses key components of this right, including restitution, recovery, compensation,
satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition, access to information, legal assistance, and
regularization of residence status. Further, she sets out special factors to be considered in
realizing the right to an effective remedy for trafficked children. Chapter IV of the report
contains the Special Rapporteur’s conclusions and recommendations. Further to the
conclusions and recommendations, the Special Rapporteur submits the draft basic
principles on the right to an effective remedy for trafficked persons, contained in annex I to
the present report.
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GE.11-12797
Annex II to the present report is reproduced, as received, in the language of submission
only.
Late submission.