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Agenda setting of the work of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 10
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- Moreover, trafficking in persons has been identified as a problem across a variety of economic sectors, including those integrated into global markets. It has been reported that the economic sectors most exposed to trafficking in persons include agriculture and horticulture, construction, garments and textiles, hospitality and catering, mining, logging and forestry, fishing, food processing and packaging, transportation, domestic service and other care and cleaning work. In those cases, trafficking in persons may be carried out by businesses and/or their business partners, including suppliers, subcontractors, labour brokers or private recruitment agencies, often because of the motivation to derive economic benefits from exploitable labour or services provided by trafficked persons or because of unmonitored or unregulated supply chain practices (see A/67/261, paras. 8-12). It is worth mentioning that in such cases trafficking in persons can and does occur without the transfer of victims from one place to another. The focus should therefore be on the exploitation, rather than the way the person has reached the destination country.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
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Agenda setting of the work of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 67
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- The mandate has devoted attention to the extent to which trafficking in persons has emerged as a key challenge and risk in a wide range of industries and sectors integrated into global markets, despite corporate social responsibility programmes. This includes a thematic report to the General Assembly (A/67/261) on the issue of trafficking in global supply chains which examined the different ways human trafficking manifests itself in the global economy, the response of global businesses, existing and emerging strategies to combat abuse, and the immediate and long-term steps necessary for business leaders to take effective and sustainable action. That work was followed in 2012 by an expert meeting with representatives of business enterprises, trade unions, non-governmental organizations, academia and international organizations that focused on understanding the relationship between human trafficking and global supply chains, and the risks run by workers and business. In addition a panel on preventing trafficking in global supply chains was convened by the previous mandate holder on the fringe of the annual Forum on Business and Human Rights in 2013. The mandate has also developed a draft checklist of indicators and benchmarks that enterprises could use to assess the risks of human trafficking and forced labour in their supply chains. They are intended to build on and complement the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as well as existing important initiatives developed by enterprises themselves and civil society organizations (see A/HRC/23/48/Add.4).
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
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Due diligence and trafficking in persons 2015, para. 40
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- Human rights due diligence on trafficking is also relevant in the activities of non-State actors, such as business enterprises, trade unions and employer organizations. As with all other non-State actors, States have an obligation to exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate and punish trafficking through their laws and policies toward business entities. This includes, for example, general rules requiring that businesses respect human rights and mandating that they undertake some form of human rights due diligence, as well as specific conditions on how States will conduct commercial transactions with business enterprises, including in their public procurement activities (e.g., by including a zero tolerance policy towards trafficking in contractual clauses and more generally revising public procurement procedures to prevent abusive and fraudulent recruitment). Other good practices include that in Brazil, where the Government "maintains public records of individuals and corporations identified by labour inspectors to be using or to have used slave labour", who then subsequently "face financial sanctions, including fines and denial of national subsidies, tax exemptions and loans from State banks." Disclosure requirements in domestic legislation that mandate companies to make their anti-trafficking policy, if they have one, transparent, is a recent form of State practice that could be strengthened by mandating that companies have such anti-trafficking policies in place and report on their implementation. Recruitment agency licensing to regulate recruitment practices and to require that workers are not charged recruitment fees can be a particularly effective form of State practice to reduce the vulnerability of migrants to trafficking. For example, "some countries in the Americas, including Peru, have explicitly prohibited recruitment agencies from engaging in trafficking and from charging workers any recruitment fees". Additionally, Indonesia and Nepal, "alongside a licensing process, there is a system by which workers can report abuses committed by recruitment agencies to the government."
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
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Due diligence and trafficking in persons 2015, para. 41
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- It is also important to recall that in cases where a business enterprise is controlled by the State or where its acts can be otherwise attributed to the State, the relevant standard is not one of due diligence towards private actors but whether the abuse of human rights by the business enterprise entails a violation of the State's international law obligations to respect, protect and fulfil human rights.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
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Due diligence and trafficking in persons 2015, para. 42
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- The term due diligence is now often used in reference to the "human rights due diligence process" of corporations to respect human rights. This "human rights due diligence process" is understood within the business community as a voluntary commitment or "expected conduct" that is a core component of the responsibility of business enterprises to respect human rights that extends beyond the activities of the core company to include harmful activities of affiliates and of business relations, including those down the supply chain. Such a human rights due diligence process should "identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address their impacts on human rights", including by "assessing actual and potential human rights impacts, integrating and acting upon the findings, tracking responses and communicating how impacts are addressed". The present mandate holder has accordingly previously developed a set of indicators and benchmarks as a "valuable tool for businesses to help them to exercise due diligence, in accordance with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, in their supply chains in order to detect and prevent trafficking cases" which will not be repeated in their entirety here. In "many cases," global companies do have in place "corporate-level policies, and supplier codes of conduct that include a clear prohibition of forced labour and human trafficking" and provide communication and training initiatives to suppliers on these policies that can include information on compliance benchmarks and reporting requirements. While such activities should be conducted in relation to all operations in the corporation's supply chain, corporations should particularly target those countries and business processes that constitute a particular risk for trafficking in persons (e.g., in crisis locations). Additionally, corporations should ensure that "traditional" strategies in corporate social responsibility are adapted to the realities of human trafficking. For example, corporations' use of "social audits" to assess working conditions at their own factories or facilities and those of their suppliers tend not to investigate how workers got their jobs (e.g., through a third party broker). In order to detect workers' susceptibility to trafficking before arriving at a workplace, corporations "must gain an understanding of both their product and labour supply chains, and develop systems to obtain information and transparency on recruitment agencies and practices".
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
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Integration of a human rights-based approach in measures to discourage the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons, especially women and children, and which leads to human trafficking 2013, para. 27
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- The responsibilities of States with respect to the activities of businesses operating in their territory and/or jurisdiction were summarized in 2011 in the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (A/HRC/17/31), developed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. They point out what States are required to do the necessary to ensure that what is called a "foundational principle" is respected: this requires that "States should set out clearly the expectation that all business enterprises domiciled in their territory and/or jurisdiction respect human rights throughout their operations" (principle 2). It also stipulates that States should, inter alia, "provide effective guidance to business enterprises on how to respect human rights throughout their operations" and "encourage, and where appropriate require, business enterprises to communicate how they address their human rights impacts" (operational principle 3 (c) and (d)).
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
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Integration of a human rights-based approach in measures to discourage the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons, especially women and children, and which leads to human trafficking 2013, para. 35
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- While there is wide consensus that addressing demand for labour and services provided by trafficked persons plays a critical role in preventing trafficking in persons, the term "demand" is not defined in sufficient detail in existing legal instruments and the interpretation of the term has been the subject of much debate.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
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Integration of a human rights-based approach in measures to discourage the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons, especially women and children, and which leads to human trafficking 2013, para. 40
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- In the course of her country visits and from other sources, the Special Rapporteur has heard about a variety of other measures taken by States to discourage demand. She has learned that the measures needed to address direct and derived demand are usually different. In the case of direct demand (which inherently seeks the services of individuals who have been trafficked), legislative or other measures that have a direct influence on purchasers' decisions are appropriate. However, when only some of the identical services or products available to purchasers have involved the exploitation of persons, a different approach is appropriate: one which moves the focus from final purchasers onto whoever makes key purchasing decisions earlier in the supply chain and is in a position to discern which services or products involve human trafficking and which do not. This approach, which seeks to influence the purchasing decisions of such intermediaries by legislation or other measures, often introduces an element of regulation into the supply of services or products. Other States have adopted legislation or policy to regulate recruitment and employment in sectors where, in the absence of such regulation, trafficking is deemed likely to occur.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
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Integration of a human rights-based approach in measures to discourage the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons, especially women and children, and which leads to human trafficking 2013, para. 55
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- Law has been used in specific ways to try to affect demand, sometimes to prohibit demand for specific services or products and sometimes to introduce regulation or other administrative systems.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
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Integration of a human rights-based approach in measures to discourage the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons, especially women and children, and which leads to human trafficking 2013, para. 66
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- According to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, "the responsibility to respect human rights requires that business enterprises: (a) avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through their own activities, and address such impacts when they occur; (b) seek to prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts that are directly linked to their operations, products or services by their business relationships, even if they have not contributed to those impacts" (guiding principle 13).
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 18c
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- [Those provisions make clear that prevention measures should address both the supply and demand factors leading to trafficking in persons. In that regard, guideline 7 of the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking, issued by OHCHR in July 2002 (E/2002/68/Add.1), provides further guidance. The main prevention measures recommended by guideline 7 may be categorized as follows:] Increasing opportunities for legal, gainful and non-exploitative labour migration;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 29
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- Guideline 7 of the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking notes that strategies aimed at preventing trafficking should address demand as a root cause. Thus, in addition to the supply side, demand for exploitative commercial sexual services and exploitative labour also needs to be addressed as one of the root causes of trafficking.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 54
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- Because of the effects of globalization, the importance of corporate responsibility to respect human rights has received increasing attention in the past decade or so, as evidenced by the development of the Global Compact and the framework for business and human rights formulated by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (see A/HRC/8/5).
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 69
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- States should build skills and institutionalize capacities, in particular those of law enforcement officers, including labour inspectors, so that they intervene appropriately to prevent trafficking in persons rather than dealing with the aftermath.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 84
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- Businesses are urged to sign to both the Global Compact and the Athens Ethical Principles, which underscore the importance of respect for human rights by businesses and their participation in fighting the menace of human trafficking in all its forms, especially in the production chain and the tourism industry.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
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Regional and subregional cooperation in promoting a human rights-based approach to combatting trafficking in persons 2010, para. 64
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- COMMIT in the Mekong region has also started addressing this concern. Its efforts have focused on identifying private tourism sector partners active in the region and involving them in the implementation of the regional plan of action. Current efforts focus on the adoption of a regional strategy on cooperation with the tourism sector to combat human trafficking.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
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Regional and subregional cooperation in promoting a human rights-based approach to combatting trafficking in persons 2010, para. 102
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- Cooperation with the private sector, particularly the tourism sector, with regard to sexual tourism, has not been identified by many organizations as a potential way to combat human trafficking from a prevention perspective.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
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Stocktaking exercise on the work of the mandate on its tenth Anniversary 2014, para. 26
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- In line with the engagement of the mandate holder with non-State actors in the fight against trafficking in persons, she has directly engaged with businesses in order to contribute to a culture of corporate responsibility by addressing issues such as labour trafficking, the supply chain and demand. For example, the mandate holder, jointly with other relevant mandate holders, including the Working Group on business and human rights, issued communications to businesses requesting clarification of allegations of trafficking in persons within their operations. She has also used such communications as an important mechanism for raising awareness of the different tools that can be used to ensure that the supply chain is free from trafficking.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 16
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- Regarding the obligations of States to protect against and redress the human rights impacts of business, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework were endorsed by the Human Rights Council in 2011. In the Guiding Principles, States are requested to set out clearly the expectation that all business enterprises domiciled in their territory and/or jurisdiction will respect human rights throughout their operations (principle 2). While the issue of trafficking in supply chains is not specifically addressed in the Guiding Principles, in accordance with principle 17 businesses should carry out due diligence in order to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address their adverse human rights impacts. Pursuant to that same principle, the due diligence should include assessing actual and potential human rights impacts, integrating and acting upon the findings, tracking responses, and communicating how impacts are addressed, and should cover not only impacts related to an enterprise’s own activities, but also those to which it may be linked through its business relationships.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 18
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- Notable examples of this are the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 in the United States, which came into effect in January 2012, and the Modern Slavery Act of 2015 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Under the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, retail sellers and manufacturers with over $100 million in annual worldwide gross receipts who do business in the state, regardless of whether or not they are headquartered in California, are required to disclose their efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their direct supply chains for tangible goods offered for sale. In accordance with the Act, companies concerned must report on their efforts in five different areas: verification, auditing, certification, internal accountability and training.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 19
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- Under the Modern Slavery Act, companies with a total turnover of over £36 million conducting business, or part of a business, in any part of the United Kingdom are required to publish an annual slavery and human trafficking statement to disclose the steps the organization has taken during the financial year to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any of its supply chains and in any part of its own business. Companies may also provide a statement that the organization has taken no such steps. The statement may include information on the company’s structure and its supply chains, its policies and due diligence processes to combat human trafficking and slavery, specific parts of its business and supply chains that may be exposed to higher risks and steps taken to mitigate such risks, the effectiveness of such efforts, and training made available for its staff. In addition, the statement must be signed by the highest level of management. The duties imposed under the Modern Slavery Act can be enforced in civil proceedings undertaken by the authorities.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 20
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- Both Acts, while considered legislative breakthroughs in developing business accountability for non-financial obligations, are nonetheless not exempt from criticism. The Modern Slavery Act has been criticized for allowing United Kingdom-based companies to hide their supply chains as long as the goods they produce do not enter the United Kingdom, and the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act is considered insufficient, as it requires companies only to report their efforts with no regard for the quality of the effectiveness of the measures taken to eliminate trafficking in persons from their supply chains. In 2015, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences presented a report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/30/35) in which those two domestic efforts were further analysed.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 22
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- In 2012, an executive order aimed at strengthening protections against trafficking in persons in federal contracts was signed in the United States. The new amendments to the Federal Acquisition Regulation include further due diligence measures in respect of contractors and address key risk indicators, such as the use of unethical recruitment practices, in particular by prohibiting contractors from charging recruitment fees to workers and from denying employees access to their personal documents.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 29
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- The first of the two consultations targeted participants in multi-stakeholder initiatives and industry coalitions; the second was aimed at representatives from companies that perform social audits and other types of supply chain assessments.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 33
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- The governance structure of multi-stakeholder initiatives is usually composed of a wide variety of stakeholders, including businesses, their suppliers and civil society representatives. The multi-stakeholder nature plays an important role, particularly in the standard-setting process, through which stakeholders define the criteria and indicators that the initiative will use to evaluate company compliance with the agreed standard. In this regard, the quality of the criteria and indicators relating to trafficking in persons depends largely on the level of stakeholder awareness of the issue, as well as on the initiative’s success in raising awareness about the standard-setting process among relevant stakeholders, in particular among those that can provide significant feedback. Ultimately, the degree to which this feedback can be integrated into the process will be contingent on the capacity to transmit to other stakeholders the importance and impact that risk indicators relating to trafficking in persons would have in their activities and on their overall performance as measured against labour-related standards.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 35
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- Companies have also addressed sustainability concerns through industry-led initiatives. These are industry associations or coalitions that bring together companies around a voluntary code of conduct or standard and a compliance programme on sustainability issues, including human rights and labour standards. While the modus operandi is similar to that of multi-stakeholder initiatives, there may be differences in the organization of the governance structures, with businesses, including suppliers, playing a stronger role.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 36
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- Some examples of industry coalitions are the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition and the Business Social Compliance Initiative of the Foreign Trade Association. The Coalition brings together companies such as Apple, HP and Intel and has developed a code of conduct and audit scope that includes extensive references to issues such as unethical recruitment practices. The Business Social Compliance Initiative is a cross-sectoral initiative that has also developed a code of conduct and an implementation plan, including auditing, a capacity-building programme for businesses, including for suppliers, and alternative stakeholder engagement activities. As mentioned above, standards and an assurance programme alone are not sufficient to embed the standards into a company’s business model. Thus, many multi-stakeholder initiatives and industry coalitions develop, in parallel, capacity-building programmes and other awareness-raising activities for their stakeholders to help promote the standards and their implementation.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 38
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- As mentioned above, unethical recruitment practices and how they represent a risk of forced labour and trafficking in persons are not widely acknowledged within the private sector or among the stakeholders that participate in the standard-setting process. While some initiatives, such as the Ethical Trading Initiative or Social Accountability International, were created to uphold a strong labour rights component, others, such as the Marine Stewardship Council, were established primarily with an environmental focus. As a result, the level of sophistication in developing indicators that can effectively account for companies’ risk practices in this area varies from one initiative to another. The differences among initiatives regarding their original motivation may not only have an impact in the standard-setting and revision process but may also affect a multi-stakeholder initiative’s success in establishing an assurance programme that effectively monitors businesses compliance with a trafficking standard.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 62b
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- [Given the potential that multi-stakeholder initiatives and industry coalitions may have to cascade corporate policies on eliminating trafficking in persons across sectors, and the role the Special Rapporteur can play in providing a powerful and neutral platform, the mandate holder will continue to explore further engagement with such initiatives, specifically to:] Enhance workers’ voices within the standard-setting process, and in monitoring mechanisms, through the identification of good practices in workers’ participation in monitoring schemes and the development of capacity-building programmes;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 62c
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- [Given the potential that multi-stakeholder initiatives and industry coalitions may have to cascade corporate policies on eliminating trafficking in persons across sectors, and the role the Special Rapporteur can play in providing a powerful and neutral platform, the mandate holder will continue to explore further engagement with such initiatives, specifically to:] Identify good practices, and draft guidance and recommendations, for the establishment of corporate grievance mechanisms and remediation that address the needs of workers effectively;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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