A/HRC/RES/17/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 July 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
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council∗
17/1
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons,
especially women and children
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions on the problem of trafficking in persons,
especially women and children, in particular General Assembly resolutions 64/293 of 30
July 2010 and 65/190 of 21 December 2010, and Human Rights Council resolutions 8/12 of
18 June 2008, 11/3 of 17 June 2009 and 14/2 of 17 June 2010,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights,
Reaffirming the principles set forth in relevant human rights instruments and
declarations, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol
thereto on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the
Optional Protocol thereto,
Recalling the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
and the Protocols thereto, and reaffirming in particular the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress
and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and recalling the
Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the
Prostitution of Others,
∗
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its seventeenth session (A/HRC/17/2), chap. I.
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