The issue of human trafficking in supply chains 2012, para. 15

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Paragraph text: Regional instruments also provide for State obligations to prevent and combat trafficking in persons. Perhaps the most comprehensive regional instrument is the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, under which States parties are required not only to adopt legislative or other measures to criminalize trafficking in persons but also to ensure that a legal person can be held liable for trafficking and other related acts (art. 22). Also relevant to the issue of trafficking in supply chains is article 19, under which States parties are required to consider adopting such legislative or other measures to criminalize the use of services which are the object of exploitation, with the knowledge that the person is a victim of trafficking in human beings. In the Arab region, the Arab Charter on Human Rights prohibits all forms of trafficking in human beings (art. 10). In other regions, while there is a tendency to prohibit only some forms of trafficking in persons, it is nevertheless relevant to note that the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, in its article 4 (2) (g), and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, in its article 29, require States parties to take appropriate measures to prevent trafficking in women and in children, respectively. In the Americas, the American Convention on Human Rights prohibits trafficking in women (art. 6 (1)).

Organe: Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children

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Personnes concernées